Chez Spud

I have completely lost my blogging mojo. We had a couple of weeks of appalling internet and I kind of fell out of the habit and now I find I don’t have much to say. But here’s a diary moment to record…I couldn’t let such a big moment pass without a record of it… Woooooeeeeeeee! [...]

Hurrah hurrah and thrice hurrah! Thanks to the patience of Kristina, a few million views of truly excellent videos from Meet Me At Mike’s and a healthy slug of awe/inspiration/jealousy from Lucy at Attic24 ….I can finally crochet a granny square! I can’t begin to express how proud of myself I am for doing this. [...]

I love tea. It’s a love affair that’s evolved over time and has involved occasional flirtations with coffee but me and tea are now going steady. I have standards and these are they: builder’s tea (strong as you like and ideally one tea bag to a cup, then pressed against the side for extra za-za-zooooom), [...]

Cheers! Gin & Tonic (Hendricks of course) at Julochka‘s place to celebrate the start of Blog Camp 3.0. End of day one…I got up at 4am…left the house at a less than ideal 4.45am…foggy (oh crap) so got to the airport at 5.50am…arrived at check-in at 6.13am (2 minutes before it closed)….resuscitated myself after briefly [...]

I’ve been pondering about Life Rules…as in Rules for Life rather than some kind of cringe making affirmation type statement (because if it were an affirmation surely it would have at least one ! if not !! and an OK!!! after it like this…Life Rules!! OK!!…and anyway I don’t do affirmations…I only do moaning & [...]

Hello baby Sofie…not such a baby now….all growed up and 1 whole year old! And walking like a professional and sleeping like a champ. How the last year has flown. You seemed to spend the first 4 months of your life asleep but you’ve made up for lost time since then. Fast and furious, in [...]

No, I’m not about to bring forth progeny once again. Or ever in fact. Although I did say that after Megaboy 1 was born and look how that turned out (hello Megaboy 2!). But, then, that wasn’t my fault, that was the work of some naughty imps forcing me to consume my own bodyweight in [...]

I’m all about photography at the moment, and less about the words. Our Blog Camp 365 project has rekindled my love affair with Flickr and I’m spending a lot of time ‘over there’ and less time in the blogosphere at the moment. But save me a spot would you, because my Flickr passion waxes and [...]

Awww, look! There’s the wife looking super fine, super cool, superdooper on her birthday yesterday. She’s actually 105 now but, by the miracles of modern science and good skincare, she doesn’t look a day over 35 does she? There are vicious rumours of a little post processing ‘help’ but that’s between me, Lightroom and the [...]

Happy New Year all you lovely lovely people! It’s not too late to join in with the Blog Camp 365 project over on Flickr.  Please do join us, it’s shaping up to be a really friendly and diverse group. What better way to quickly improve your photography but just taking ONE photo a day….c’mon, you [...]