Category Archives: Photography

Weekly Photo Challenge; Happy

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The Challenge this week is to create a gallery of happy photos, or photos that make me happy! Taking photographs makes me happy & I love when they come out well, like the little bird I found on a wall … Continue reading

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This is why Wilson gets haircuts

Below is a beautiful photo of Wilson when his hair was at its longest in June 2011 And the following photos show why we have to have his hair cut nowadays! // // // //

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Mine

This was an easy one for me, MY two beautiful daughters, and now MY husband 🙂 Weekly Photo Challenge

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Weekly Photo Theme: Foliage

Striking hairy mollies (Cinnabar caterpillars) decorate the ragwort

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A Beautiful Peacock

A very beautifully coloured Peacock I think… would love some shoes in these colours! 🙂  I saw it just wandering along the grass verge in Addlestone & just had to stop and take some photos of him! (I presume he … Continue reading

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About Me, for today

I have recently stopped working, for many reasons, most of all I needed some time out.  I have a few ideas of where to go from here, but am still at the ideas stage with many of them. As I … Continue reading

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitary

Peter and Wilson. With a dog, man may be solitary, but never alone. Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitary //

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There is a crack, a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in

  Leonard live at the National Stadium, Dublin 1988 I WAS THERE! I was only 19, and had spent the previous 4 years being lulled to sleep and indulging in depression with Leonard’s first 3 albums, very typical of teenagers … Continue reading

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Gotta reblog this!

My classmate Dave Adamson from my PGCE course in 2010 is doing a 75 mile bikeathon on the 16th of September. The route follows the Olympic cycling route, and includes cycling up Box Hill 6 times!!! I can just about … Continue reading

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Wilson has a new bath

        As temperatures in London reached 33°  Wilson was very glad of his new bigger bath.  The colour didn’t phase him in the slightest!

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