Chez Spud

Plodding…that’s what it feels like we’re doing right now. We’ve had such awful news today, I can’t talk about it for now because it’s just too private and raw.  I know these things always come in cycles, but we seemed to have lurched from one awful situation to another in recent weeks. So much grief [...]

You can see the words, but I’m not here. I’m actually away with the fairies….I met them down in the woods, frollicking under the toadstools and sprinkling fairy dust. So i joined their merry bande and tootled away to the stars with them.
Of course I’m talking crap. I’m not really here, I’m actually blogging in [...]

I love blogging. What’s not to like? You get to write about yourself, meet splendid folks who do you the favour of reading your witterings, you get to write when you want and what you want and, through writing, you often get to sift through issues and problems and even get advice, help and support [...]

A quick post to mark a full year of my Photo A Day project. Actually I’m a few days past the ‘real’ anniversary, but today’s photo works better as an anniversary shot since it mirrors this shot:

…which I took a year ago, nearly to the day…same tree (in the field at the bottom of our [...]

Just following up on yesterday’s strange post about quilts of MIA and dead people (you’ll have to read it to get it)…a number of you asked what the photo was that I used. It’s part of the entrance to the Palais Royale Metro station in Paris. Only the French could make something so mundane as [...]

My lovely sister-in-law is goodly making a photo album for our parents-in-law (MrSpud’s parents) for Christmas. She’s collecting photos from the weddings of all three of their children, so kind of her. I’m so glad I’m not in charge since I’ve failed to put even our own wedding photos in an album, even though we [...]

Thank you to everyone who posted and emailed about God/Dod after yesterday’s post. Check out the divine Miss S, splendid in her christening gown and pretty as a flower.
I’m still mulling, and your thoughts and wisdom has been immensely helpful. Otin’s comment really struck a chord, and I think that’s where I’m heading:
Otin: ” This [...]

God came to visit Chez Spud today. I was so unprepared, just dashing about trying to get us all suited and booted and out of the door for a baptism. I was wrapping a gift for baby Sofie when BAAAAAHHHMMMM in He came. Actually I invited him in, but by stealth.  I suddenly realised,  whilst [...]

News just in…the pigs are deceased and my freezer is now well stocked. I’m amazed at just how much meat one pig produces, and that’s without the sausages. We’ll be eating pork until the end of time.
The meat arrived in a fairly bulky way…huge, massive rolls of shoulder/leg which we puzzled over for a while [...]

Introducing Eliza Claire aka Liz…wedding, portrait, boudoir and trash the dress photographer extraordinaire. That’s her in the photo above, suffering for her art. That little hand in the top right is her daughter’s; she was sitting on mummy’s back using her camera strap as reins and doing ‘gee up horsey’…waaaah! I asked Liz to write [...]