Chez Spud

Firstly, thank you to all of you for your kind comments, prayers and emails over the last few days. I’m so sorry, I’ve been hopeless and not responded to any of them but I have read all of them and your thoughts mean a lot to me. Got to love the Blogging Tribe xxx
So, Leaf [...]

Final in the trilogy…blue, strangely apt. My grandad died today, I feel so sad but mostly right now I feel very angry that his death was more drawn out that hoped for. It wasn’t the peaceful, graceful exit we’d all hoped for. I know from experience that you have to quickly learn to let go [...]

Following on from yesterday’s Three Colours: Red…

Garden Clock
Garden path

Wedding dress

Ikea bowls

Julochka’s lampshade

Diggy’s curls

Tide Mill in our local town

Heavy frost down our lane

Frosty garden gate

Local animal food store

Fishing boat, Aldeburgh

Snow, also red for yesterday!

I am totally devoid of anything to say….I’m just watching the phone and waiting for news of my grandfather, which won’t be good for us but will be a blessing for him.
Instead I’ll join in with the colour theme posts which Julochka, Polly and others have been doing. Interestingly I find it so hard to [...]

Uh oh…I’ve discovered yet another way to waste hours of my life. I have such a talent for unearthing time robbers;  if only such a skill had a commercial use. Instead all I can do is shrug my shoulders, embrace the robber and then pass it on to you guys…although you will be spared if [...]

‘That’ time is approaching…the little piggies we have nurtured from piglets are now fully grown and ready to go to the sausage factory in the sky. Well, the slaughter house/butcher in the next town. I feel a little sadder about this than anticipated … watching them potter about in the Autumn sunshine is quite lovely. [...]

I got a present today. A present from me for me. A Self-Present. No reason really, I pretended it was a ‘Well done Spud on your new job, From Spud xx’ present but really it was a ‘just because’ kind of gift. I’m OK with that…I come from a long line of Self-Presenters, well my [...]

Well I did my storyboards for my Grandad’s birthday tomorrow. The top is is ‘September in the garden’, all taken in our garden yesterday and the bottom one is self-explanatory. They didn’t exactly turn out as planned, I wish I’d had more time to consider which shots to put in. Plus, I should learn how [...]

Mojo? Mojo, where art thou? Mojo? Come out, come out wherever you are…here kitty kitty kitty.
Now here’s the thing. I have TOTALLY lost my photographic and blogging mojo. Cry. I can’t find it anywhere, I’ve looked in all the usual places, I’ve retraced my steps, I’ve looked down the back of the sofa and everything. [...]

If you leave a vast pile of boxes in the garage with a leaky roof  for ‘just a few weeks’ (um, 9 months ago) you can expect some of them to have rotted away, taking their contents with them.
It doesn’t matter how many times you say, ‘That’s IT! I’m never moving again!’, some day you [...]