Tag Archives: family life

Dec 27

Oh Christmas Tree

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This is the first year in 4 that we’ve been to my parents. Covid kept us away last year, OH beung a retail pixie account for the others. Being home is bittersweet. My parents are in their twilight years. Christmasses yet to come, as a family unit, are likely to be counted in years not […]

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Oct 24

October Holiday: 4

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Yesterday was awe and some. The boat went in, OH piloted for the first time. I’ll let the photos speak for themselves. As you can see the wheelhouse and rails were assembled after delivery. I’ll post video when I have a better signal

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Mar 16

Weekly Photo Challenge: One Love

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I haven’t done this challenge for a while. Actually I haven’t been blogging for awhile. My excuse: life got in the way. The reality: life got in the way. But this seemed such an appropriate one to do. And here is the picture I have chosen… One day I might blog about the last few […]

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Jan 23

Dear Future Godchild

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Dear Future Godchild, I was pleased to make your acquaintance today when your Mum sent a picture of your 12 week scan. I look forward to meeting you properly later this year and getting to know you over the years. Today, I would like to promise you several things. Firstly I would like to promise […]

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Nov 09

Annual Wash your Toy Dog Day – Day 2

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It’s a long process – drip drying.  

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Aug 27

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fray

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When you think of the word “fray” it tends to involve thread and clothing coming apart. It’s not something you normally associate with iron or metal. They rust. But looking at the way the paint is fraying on these metal structures made me change my mind Taken at Beamish. For other takes on Fray click […]

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Aug 05

Is it me?

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Or have the programmers of the spam algorithm ceased to be creative types on a gap year?   I don’t know about you guys, but I used to enjoy reading through my queued comments: snickering at the syntax errors; shaking  at the side-splittingly crude attempts to make out I’m the best thing since sliced… spam; […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: ZigZag

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My mother was of the opinion that you can’t get patterned carpet any more.  I took this photo to show her she was wrong but it didn’t turn out as I expected…   A definite Zigzag on perspective – wouldn’t you say? For more takes on this challenge click here    

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Jul 22

Thank you very much

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This humbles me. Cheers guys

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Jun 27

Weekly Photo Challenge: Contrasts

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This week the challenge is to capture contrasts. As always, it was taken in my parents garden during half term. I love the way the blue flowers contrast with the green of the grass; how the smoothness of the grass contrasts with the hairy stems of the plant and how the sunshine contrasts with water […]

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