I love this week's theme. It seems perfectly fitting after a weekend that we have devoted to family, celebrating LBG's birthday on Saturday with a fairly epic party, and then reveling in the awesomeness of the man we call Daddy on Father's Day. … [Read more...]
The Gallery: Morning
Joining in with this week's Gallery at Sticky Fingers … [Read more...]
Easter Egg
We're enjoying a week of mixed weather in Suffolk. That hasn't stopped my Little Misses feeding lambs, feeding horses, feeding ducks (you get the idea) and generally relishing the sense of freedom they get by being at Potash Barns. The weekend was dominated by a bright dry day for an Easter Egg hunt: we are still slowly working our way through the stash of chocolate eggs, chicks, hens and bunnies. What we don't have is a goose. But the farm does. … [Read more...]
Desert Island Luxury
I'm a relative newcomer to Radio 4, and one of the programmes I wish I had discovered years ago is Desert Island Discs. It's a veritable institution that has been running since 1941. The premise of the show is that the Castaway chooses eight tracks that they simply couldn't be without, weaving stories of their life as they go. In addition they are allowed to choose one book, to go with The Bible and The Full Works of William Shakespeare, to keep … [Read more...]
Extremely close
How close is close? It's sleeping with a spine pressed against yours. It's someone else filling your bladder, dictating what you eat, deciding when you should sleep. Carrying a baby will redefine how close you are to another person; not only because of the daily experience of bonding you have with your unborn child, but also because you will share many things that were not in your wedding vows: backache, swollen ankles and haemorrhoids. Close is … [Read more...]
Rainbow Themed Birthday Party
A few weeks ago The Dimpled Assassin turned two. I don't mind telling you that there were points when I didn't think she was going to make it that long: she's a little kamikaze round the edges. But make it she did and to mark the occasion I threw an all-singing all-dancing Rainbow themed Birthday party I've been meaning to wrote about it for a while. Then Tara, Our Lady of Sticky-Fingers, declared this week to be Colour Week in The Gallery, and I … [Read more...]
Light
When I first saw this week's Gallery theme I was a little bit excited. As someone who is just learning how to get better photographs, light did not immediately call to mind the ISO setting or AV mode or the best-light-being-in-the-early-morning-or-late-afternoon or any of that technical stuff. I thought feathers. Except, despite several trips to the duck pond, I couldn't find any to photograph. Which was fine because I'd already moved on to … [Read more...]
