Chez Spud

MrSpud casually reminded me last night that, 2 years ago, he told me I was hard to buy presents for because I didn’t have any hobbies (um, what? doesn’t diamond collecting count? OK….). Oh how times change! Since October 2008, a smidge under 2 years ago, I have taken up photography, started blogging, learnt to [...]

I swear Tara of Sticky Fingers is making the weekly themes harder not easier. This week, ‘A Photo I am Proud Of’. Well there are photos that I love, that mean a lot, that captured a memory…but a photo I am proud of. Now that’s a tough one.  And, of course, I can’t pick just [...]

Gone Camping, originally uploaded by *spudballoo*. I am not here. I am there. Or here. Depending on your viewpoint. I am eschewing bricks and mortar for canvas and the charms of cooking over a camp fire. No electricity, no TV, no laptop. No stress, nowhere to be, no timetable. Just me and my boys hanging [...]

Toptastic Day Trip with the Megaboys and pal Gus. We wore them out, we wore them down. They they wore US out and that wasn’t really the point at all. We play dated at Gus’ house…then we beached it…and some of our number wore centurian helmets to be on the safe side…invaders from Felixstowe could [...]

Ooooh, I won Tara’s photography competition for my ‘Nature’ entry to her weekly Gallery. I’m chuffed to pieces. Not least because my prize is a luxury organic hamper from chocolate makers extraordinare Green & Blacks. This was my entry. I will enjoy re-reading it whilst gorging myself to the point of sickness on fine chocolate. [...]

A new one for me…a local sunflower field. I’ve never seen sunflowers en masse before, not in Real Life anyway. It’s really quite a sight to behold..poppies tick…sunflowers tick…just need a lavender field and I’ve done the Holy Trinity of Flowers. Rain rain rain rain rain. It’s raining. It’s raining as a warm up to [...]

Tara’s theme this week is ‘Playtime’ which is a whole lot easier than previous Gallery themes. A quick trawl through my archive unearthed a million shots of the Megaboys in the park having a ball and yet, curiously, not one of me chewing my own arm off out of boredom. Curious, since that is how [...]

Ah, lovely Bea! I shot a Christening on Sunday and here is the younger of the two little misses…Beatrice. Big sister Grace was mostly MUCH too busy for photos. Poor Bea was awake for most of the night before her special day, full of cold and clearly rather poorly. She was very calm and sweet [...]

I’d love to say this is a photo of my new bike. It isn’t. It’s MrSpud’s bike, mid clean/service/general male tinkering. We made a 2 hour round trip to be measured and order a bike that the shop told me they could get in in 24 hours. Wrong. They can’t get it any time soon [...]

Bertie, Digby and Imo in Colin the Caravan who is looking VERY splendid mid refit. Can’t wait to see him finished! Kind of 70s, sunshiney processing. Kind of 70s sunshiney kind of day. That is all. 0