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Upon Small Shoulders
I love Sinéad O’Connor, I always have. When I first heard ‘Troy’ the haunting love song from her first album, The Lion & The Cobra, she was singing from my heart, from my soul. She screamed for me, from me. … Continue reading
Phoneography Challenge
Welcome to my neighbourhood!! Well, this was the neighbourhood within which I grew up, and this weekend I was there celebrating my Dad’s 70th birthday.
Posted in Birthdays, Daddies, Dublin, Photography
Tagged Balally, Dublin, Dundrum, Dundrum Shopping Centre, neighborhood, neighbourhood, phoneography, Postaday, The Celtic Tiger, Weekly Photo Challenge
10 Comments
Surprise!
Today was my daddy’s birthday, he reached three score and ten. Mum planned a lunch with some of their friends and my sister, and I secretly flew over last night and stayed with my sister. I had also posted over … Continue reading
Posted in Birthdays, Daddies, Dublin, Families, Getting old, Photography, Sisters
Tagged 70th Birthday, Dad, Dublin, Dundrum, International Women's Day, Mum & Dad, Roly Saul, Three Score and Ten
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My Talent Jar
RLast Wednesday I wrote a post in response to Rarasaur’s new weekly writing/photography challenge ‘Prompt for the promptless‘ Wabi-Sabi. In response to my post, which was definitely quite self depreciating as I have been feeling very under the weather recently … Continue reading
Posted in Families, Photography, Sinus headache
Tagged FESS, Hospital, Sinus Surgery, Stealing my thunder, Talent Jar, Wabi-Sabi
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Travel Theme; Bridges – Walton Bridge
A new bridge is being built over the River Thames, near where I live in Walton. This will be the first new road bridge over the Thames in 20 years History of Walton Bridge (from the Surrey County Council Website) … Continue reading
Posted in Bridges, Families, London, Photography, Walton-On-Thames
Tagged Bridges, Elmbridge, old walton bridge, Panasonic DMC-FZ62, Postaday, Shepperton, Surrey, Travel Theme, Walton Bridge, Walton-On-Thames
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It’s this time of day again! :(
Posted in Families, Getting old, Housework, Jokes, Photography
Tagged Cooking, Decisions, Dinner, Exhaustion, Food, ME, myalgic encephalomyelitis
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Travel Theme; Festive – Desborough Island
We found another ‘Pet Christmas Tree‘ on Desborough Island during our walk today and one bauble in particular caught my eye 🙂 I decided to have a play with my camera and here are the results To find out more … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Families, Janathon, Pets, Photography, Walking
Tagged Bauble, Christmas Tree, Desborough Cut, Desborough Island, Festive, Panasonic DMC-FZ62, Pet Christmas Trees, Remembering Pets, Travel Theme, Wilson
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Travel Theme; Festive – Esher Common
During our walk in Esher woods today we noticed a tree decorated with baubles and tinsel. Esher common is very popular with dog walkers, and a family had decorated a tree with Christmas decorations in memory of three of their … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Families, Janathon, Pets, Photography, Walking
Tagged Baubles, Christmas Tree, Esher Woods, Festive, Panasonic DMC-FZ62, Postaday, Remembering Pets, Star Filter, Travel Theme
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Travel Theme; Festive – Christmas Tree
I got a wonderful camera for Christmas 🙂 It’s a Panasonic ‘Bridge Camera’ (the bridge is between compact cameras and dSLR’s) the DMC-FZ62. It is perfect for me as I have only ever used compact cameras up to now, and … Continue reading
Posted in Families, Photography
Tagged Baubles, Bridge Camera, Christmas Tree, Festive, Panasonic DMC-FZ62, Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ8, Postaday, Star Filter, Travel Theme
9 Comments
Day One 
Dear WordPress, Please take my Auntie out of the Spam Bin!
Please could you improve the ‘Spam’ section of the comments folder so that we can add our friends as a ‘trusted commenter’ and also consign persistent spammers to the ‘do not even consider accepting posts from this person’ folder, in … Continue reading →