Monthly Archives: March 2016

What is it with tulips? Answers on a postcard, or a sealed-down envelope please. That sealed-down envelope used to worry me terribly as a child: what if the people receiving it didn’t realise that it was standing in for a … Continued

I’d been hoping to get out and about today, but although fine it was a cold and dreary day, and in the end I spent the morning working on my on(and on, and on, and on…)going project: Website Building for … Continued

We woke this morning to discover that it had rained so hard in the night that the road outside the house was knee-deep in water – something that hasn’t happened since the Highways Agency put in new drains a few … Continued

Ooof – what a day. Phone calls bringing unsettling news and requesting advice; reassurance and support needing to be given, strategies needing to be devised – and then a firm (and unwelcome) stand having to be taken. All to the … Continued

As trisharooni is setting Mono Monday this month and she’s a master of street photography, I chose to interpret her theme today as a request for street shots. I had to go to Stratford this afternoon, and as there’s usually something … Continued

Young Will was highly amused by R’s YouTube video of kittens playing the ukulele, and in return told R a witty anecdote about his own hamsters, which he had trained to negotiate an obstacle course constructed out of empty toilet … Continued

This week’s homework for the workshop A Year With My Camera was to shoot a contre-jour image, and try to get the exposure right straight out of the camera. Stepping around the fact that I don’t think there is a single … Continued

Today has been a day of failing to achieve most of the things that were on my to-do list, owing to letting myself be sidetracked onto time-wasting nonsense. To make matters worse, R has just cast a glance at my … Continued

R and I went to Stratford this morning to run errands. We also had coffee and lardy cake (I know: outrageous!) at Huffkins, which was very nice. After indulging and erranding, I walked down to the river and took some … Continued

Firstly, thank you for all the lovely comments, stars and hearts you bestowed on yesterday’s blip; I will try to get round to answering everyone personally tomorrow. Today was a day of horrid weather: we had rapidly-alternating periods of sun, … Continued