I’ve been under the weather…. but I’m not giving up!

Where on earth have I been?  I can’t believe its been nearly a month since my last post!  I’ve missed all my favourite weekly challenges, I’ve got some catching up to do!  I have been ill, even more than normal, I’ve caught a nasty cold that has been doing the rounds so now I can’t smell, hear almost nothing & I keep losing my voice! Everyone else who has caught it has surfaced again after a few days… I’m drowning!! Lets just hope I don’t get an eye infection or I’ll really be in trouble!

Firstly in September my Baby moved to Southampton to go to University!  When I moved to London (forever) many moons ago I had one bag.  This child needed two cars and 4 parents to help move her to Southampton!  And she will be back for Christmas!  We had a great day though, and it was wonderful for all 6 of us (plus Wilson of course) to sit and have a meal together before saying goodbye to her.  A really really special moment for me.

2 children with 4 parents :-)

2 children with 4 parents 🙂

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Good Morning!

Sunrise at the top of Mount SinaiWhen we went to Egypt on our honeymoon in April 2011 we climbed to the top of Mount Sinai in the middle of the night so as to see the sun rise at the top. Continue reading

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My Best Photo of the Week

Charlotte 16

Charlotte 16

This is a picture of my daughter Charlotte.  She would like to be a model, so we have started having some photo-shoots.  This photo is Charlotte’s favourite from this session.

Thank you so much to WeLiveInaFlat for the challenge 🙂

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Michelle’s Weekly Pet Challenge Week 3

Wilson has been getting a lot of airtime recently, so for the third week of Michelle’s weekly pet challenge here is a picture of my very first pet, a beautiful and very large tabby who the girls christened ‘Tiggles’ as he was very tiger-like

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Saturated

Saturated enough?

Saturated enough?

I’m not sure if this is the kind of saturated that this week’s photo challenge was about!!

Here’s a few more of wet Wilsons…. he likes water.  Click on any of them to see a better picture

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Do Vitamin B12 injections help?

Please let me know!!

I am exhausted, beyond exhausted. I could sleep for 100 years… Where is the 13th fairy godmother when you need her?

Wilson sleeps anywhere

Wilson sleeps anywhere

I have recently started an 8 week ‘lifestyle change’ programme for ME sufferers to help me learn to get some balance in my life, and help me crawl out of the ‘boom & bust’ way of approaching tasks which clearly doesn’t work any more. Continue reading

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Travel Theme; Multicoloured

I’ve been looking through my photos from our trip to Santorini in 2008 recently and I found a few for the Weekly Photo Challenge; From Lines to Patterns.  Most of the pictures I have from Santorini are of wonderful sunsets, so good I will have to do a special post about them, but I did come across a few full of colour & I was just about to hop over to Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge to see what colour she was working with when I found this week’s travel theme!

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Happy Birthday Leonard!

Last Sunday we went to see Leonard Cohen again in the O2 arena in Greenwich.

P1080493This is the 5th time we have seen him since he started out on his world tour in 2008. Continue reading

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Weekly Photo Challenge: From Lines to Patterns

This week’s Weekly Photo challenge is called From Lines to Patterns

We see lines and patterns in the world around us, in nature and things man-made. Sometimes we don’t realize they’re there: on the street, across the walls, up in the sky, and along the ground on which we walk.

Santorini

Sunshade at a juice stall creates sharp shadows in the bright sunshine

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Michelle’s Weekly Pet Challenge Week 2

Wilson's first day at our house

For the second week of Michelle’s weekly pet challenge here is our first photo of Wilson after he arrived home with us. He had just had his cast removed from his leg, so looked very funny with one skinny leg. Continue reading

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