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Mr Diggy, a smidge under 3.5, learnt to swim totally solo this week. He’s been swimming under water for a while but, you know, sometimes you have to come up for air and swim ON the water. And now he can. I’m so proud of him, he’s only had 3 lessons and he refused to [...]

Ooof I think the themes for Tara’s The Gallery are getting harder not easier. I was so sure this week’s theme ‘nature’ would be a breeze. Drag out a photo or two of some pretty flowers from the archive and be done with it, I thought. But actually none of the flowers were really doing [...]

Not a very interesting shot but then it wasn’t a very interesting day….life’s like that of course, and thus so is the Photo365. I present, a very dull lifebuoy found nestling by our local watermill. Interesting facts about lifebuoys, via Wikipedia: A lifebuoy, ring buoy, lifering, lifesaver or lifebelt, also known as a “kisby ring” [...]

It’s pretty monotonous being a stay at home mum. Sometimes I like to shake things up by playing poker with the children in the afternoon. Mostly we play for fun, but sometimes we make it interesting and play for money. We’ve slowly worked through their Child Trust Funds and have made a good start on [...]

Flying (NB birds’ feathers for ‘wings’) Sliding Spinning (and very, very nearly vomiting..urgh) Kicking But mostly just curly 2

We happened upon a fantastic 1953 bus today, randomly parked on a bit of waste land at Portishead marina. Stuff the boats, let’s get snapping the super vintage bus! At that point A Serious Photographer arrived and offered me a ‘go’ with his Fisheye Lens. I snatched it off him graciously accepted it and, one [...]

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What IS it about the appeal of baby toys to children who should have outgrown them years ago? My Dad produced a box of toys we kept at his house when the boys were much younger and the squeals of delight were quite defeaning. All the small pieces of plastic tat which I’d lugged all [...]

Week 20 of The Gallery and this week’s theme is ‘A Novel Idea’, or images to represent a novel. As usual I can’t limit myself to one, I enjoy poking around my photo archive too much to stop at one. So, above, we have A Horseman Riding By (RF Delderfield)…a novel I read and loved [...]

Out take from a photoshoot I did this week for lifestyle boutique. The brief was for shots of the boutique exterior and interior, but there was a lot of downtime as the window was dressed, the shop rearranged etc. So I got busy with a few product shots while I was waiting…I lingered over these [...]