Chez Spud

I am really going off Parker. I’ve moaned before about his killing tendencies but he’s really stepped up his campaign of terror in recent days. We found a trail of bird feathers and poo (nice) around the house when we got back from our Christmas trip a few days ago. No amount of hunting revealed [...]

Before I begin…this is my 200th post. That’s a lot of wittering in 6 months…
Anyway…and I’m off! I’ve made a start on my 39 things to do before I’m 40 list. This afternoon I lay on my bed and quietly, and badly, learnt how to crochet. It wasn’t easy, or pretty, and I didn’t make [...]

I’m just two photos away from completing my first Photo-A-Day 365 project WHOOPEEE and, despite vowing not to do it again, it seems I’m hooked on the damn thing. So, Photo-A-Day 2010 here I come! Julochka has started a new Flickr group for us bleeps here so if you’d like to play along and join [...]

Graffiti wall, South Bank, London

Town of my noble birth…ah, blessed art thou Weston-super Mare…let’s overlook the fact that Jeffrey Archer is thou Lord…and the fact that the sea is NEVER in and you have to walk a mile for a paddle…and the fact that your nickname of Weston-super-Mud is so well deserved…anyway, thou art blessed amongst faded English seaside [...]

…and Granna, MrSpud’s mother, read’ Twas the night before Christmas’ to the boys from a book that belonged to MrSpud’s brother in the early 1970s, snuggled on the bed in MrSpud’s childhood bedroom. It’s the first time the Megaboys have heard that poem, such a lovely moment to watch their grandmother read it to them [...]

Bye for a bit…we are leaving today for a round robin Christmas trip visiting family for 5 days. Wishing all of those of you celebrate Christmas a wonderful one. May all your turkeys be moist, your glasses full and your families non squabbling.
Let’s raise a toast to absent friends xxx

It’s still snowy. What to shoot but lovely pal Pig Woman Jan…she’s not a pig but she is a woman and her name is Jan. She stables her horse on the farm where we live and we joint owned the pigs with her and our neighbour, who owns the farm. Much of her pig is [...]

Day 3 of The Big Freeze in the UK. I’ve taken around 1,000 photos of which pretty much none are anything special. Why is snow so hard to capture?  Quite apart from getting the white balance right, I’m drawn to trying to getting the ‘whole’ to get the scale of how much snow we have. [...]