2 365 Simple pleasures
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Forget expensive toys…a bag of 200 balloons was the BIGGEST hit of Christmas. Add in a box (a huge plastic one in this case) and an army of dinosaurs and that’s Diggy happy for a couple of hours.
Posts Tagged ‘Digby’
Photo A Day…Delicious Digby
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I know he’s my child and thus I am genetically programmed to think he’s gorgeous (although some slightly unkind things may have been said about his looks as a baby today. By me)…but, go on, tell me he’s not beautiful? Just want to bottle him up and keep him like this forever. Although possibly a little less grumpier and with a fast forward button for walking.
Mr Digby, twitching in the gloom of a late, misty Autumn afternoon. We’d hoped to see a roost of 5,000 starlings. The starlings didn’t get the memo. We had to make do with reed warblers and, a treat apparently, a marsh harrier. Oh and a possible sighting of a snipe.
No time to blog right now. No time to think or breath much actually. When will this ever change?
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Photo A Day: Don’t let go!
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Diggy with Granna at the playground in the forest. Too much fun in one sentence…presence of playgrounds, forests AND grannies all in one place…lucky boy.
As usual we got about 10 foot away from the carpark. Is this typical for pre-schoolers? I don’t want to wish my life away but I am looking forward to going for walks with the boys, rather than just shambling from the car park, inspecting every stick and stone within spitting distance for a few hours and then going home again. Small children live life at a different pace. Fact.
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Solo Swimming!
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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 stay in the pool for most of the second one. So now I have two solo swimmers. Role on confident/reliable solo swimming so I can start to breathe normally when they are near water.
He looks so funny motoring along the pool, little arms and legs going 20 to the dozen, a mile of curly hair slapping about his face and comedy goggles. I wasn’t sure if they were tears of pride or mirth that were ticking my eyes as I watched him.
So today I got him a swimming hat in the hope of him being able to see where he’s going when he’s in the pool. He’s very keen on it although he insists on wearing it the wrong way round which makes him look more than a little peculiar.
He wasn’t that keen on having a photo taken though. He wouldn’t stay still (hence out of focus shot), then a little melt down began…you can just see it in the set of his mouth in the above photo. It quickly descended in to the following sequence…I don’t think it needs words…don’t you love how he looks like a cross between an egg and a frog….a very CROSS frog/egg…
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Poppy Power
Posted under People I love, Photography
Oh how I laughed. For the last 10 days or so I’ve been itching to get a poppy field shot. The field I snapped last year is covered in white daisies this year, but another field just a short drive away was absolutely magnificent. Probably the biggest poppy field I’ve ever seen and in a gorgeous position for an evening shoot. But I couldn’t get near enough to it without trespassing, and there was nowhere easy to park. I’d just about given up on it when I happened to meet the landowner at a party and asked permission to shoot. By the time I got there to shoot the poppies had, inevitably, gone way past their best. Weep.
Yesterday MrSpud spotted ‘something orangey red’ about 3 fields away from the house. Quick trip down the fields ET VOILA! A wonderful, wonderful poppy field….right on the doorstep. And it’s absolutely at its best right now. My photographic happiness is complete.
I bribed the boys to sit still for a photoshoot. They weren’t that keen at first…
Threats were added to the bribes…
Once they were off there was no stopping them…
I can’t imagine there are many years left of them being so unselfconsciously loving towards each other. So, for now, I’ll let my heart melt a little bit each time they kiss and cuddle each other. And take a million photos and a make a million memories. xxx
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A video just for Deb of Sojourner
Posted under People I love, Witterings
Oh I had such a giggle at a comment from Deb a few days back, when I posted a video of Bertie on his go-kart. “Nice to hear your voice”, she said. Um, Deb….that was MR SPUD not me!! This is me talking. I sound like the Queen. I was teased mercilessly about my cut glass accent at various Blog Camps…
Enjoy! Oh, those ‘buckets’? I bought them to stash yarn in. They lasted about 10 seconds before those Megaboys appropriated them for Boys Chores.
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Weston-super-Mare
Posted under Photography, Witterings
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 towns and we heart you.
I’m visiting my Dad and his wife as part of our Christmas round robin trip. Today we braved the cold for a run around the beach. Brrrrrrrr….
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Winter Wonderland
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Hoorah. It snowed for real and the country came to a standstill as usual. MrSpud stayed home and we didn’t budge from the farm all day. Instead, we sledged. We staked out our run:
We sledged solo
There was quite a lot of trudging back up the hill of course
We worked in pairs (not shown…me and MrSpud sledging a deux…didn’t trust the boys with the camera, funny that)
And then some showoffs worked as a trio
Didn’t end too well though…
And then it got REALLY silly. One of our number decided to indulge in Extreme Sledging whilst videoing himself in the process. Alas I am married to this person. He’s 38 by the way. Not 8. I just thought I’d point that out…
Ah MrSpud. It’s lucky you are so devastatingly good looking (although would you GET a haircut?) and charming and wonderful and such a good father and funny and supportive and don’t bother arguing with me too much because it isn’t worth the hassle. Otherwise I would sneer and deride you as an utter neerdy geek. Oh..wait…
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Wordless Wednesday
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‘For unto us a child is born…’
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Family photographers…get in the shot!
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A couple of months ago I read a wonderful and very poignant post on the Pioneer Woman’s blog which suddenly made me so aware of how few photos I have of me with my boys, or MrSpud for that matter. That’s the downside of having a camera stuck to your face 24/7; no one dare wrestle it off you and attempt some snaps for fear of scorn and ridicule. Plus, many of the photos that are taken with me in them are deleted as I don’t like how I look, or it’s not a ‘perfect’ moment in some way or another…no make up on, hair looking like a bird’s nest, mountains of laundry in the background, not wearing fancy dress etc etc.
But Miz Booshay makes an excellent point that, in the future, the viewers of your snaps won’t care on jot about such details…they will just see a lovely moment in time, preserved forever. I have very few photos of me with my mother, who died many years ago, but the ones I have are so precious. So, since I read that post, I’ve been trying to ‘get in the shot’ for some portraits and also trying to get some ‘snaps’ of us just hanging out, doing the normal ‘stuff’ of life. It’s harder than it sounds, and it involves MrSpud getting regular ear bashings for ‘GETTING IT ALL WRONG….AGAIN’ (mostly for out of focus shots, sigh, how hard can it be?).
But slowly, very slowly, there are some photos of me with the boys. I can’t go back and get the shots that are missing, notably any shots of me with both my boys when Diggy was a newborn, but I can try to make sure my thick necked, speccy twat face sneaks in to a few shots going forward.
So, I challenge you all…if you’re the ‘family photographer’, then start getting in the shot. Get in there with your partner, your children, your pets, your friends, your neighbours…anybody who is important to you. YOU might not like the way you look, or handing over your camera (especially if you are a Nikon owner…Canon? Not so much, it’s no big deal for you…tee hee)…but if you don’t do it, the people who look at your photos in the future will be so sad that you’re never in the shot.
So get in there. And when you have, come back here and post a link for me so I can have a good nosey. I neeeeeeed to seeeeee you!
