Chez Spud

The first in what, hopefully, won’t be an occasional series, “What I saw on my cycle ride today”. Finally, I have a bike although it’s not mine…it’s a very generous loan from my good chum The Shopkeeperswife. I’m still in pursuit of my own bike, awaiting delivery of 2011 stock and it’s very frustrating. But [...]

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. [...]

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

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 [...]