The Gallery – World Photograph Day

Since we went digital in 2004 mostly all my photographs are on my lap top or the external hard drive, in fact since the Little Lady was eight weeks old the albums have stopped.

I loved my photo albums, they would be my choice of items to get out of the house after the children, husband and cats in case of a fire.  The first thing I thought about when I saw the title for the Gallery at Sticky Fingers this week wasn’t “Oooo what shall I take!” but “*sigh* I really need to sort that out and get my albums up to date.” I was also given a Digital photo frame for my birthday from the smalls and I haven’t filled that up either….  Time to get a grip!

Anyhoo!

This weekend just gone we were away in Pembrokeshire, so I give you

Slide together

The Gallery – 3 Little Words

“Where’s the keys?”

The smalls love helping Daddy pull apart his MG’s, the little lady already knows the parts names and tools. Which is more then I can claim!

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The Gallery : What I’m grateful for…

I’m so very totally and speechlessly grateful for my beautiful children… For all the hard work, noise, taxiing and nagging, they are supremely lovely, well behaved, gifted and loving.  My daughter dances like a angel and my son ‘huggles’ like a prince.

But you have seen them soooooooooooooooo many times! *yawn* so I thought I’d change the angle. Today (Tuesday 31st) my small people were given a camera for the first time. It’s Daddies birthday and we visited the New Forest Wildlife sanctuary, apart from arguing about who took what they did a pretty good job.

I present to you, today, a family outing as photographed by my children, who I am pride burstingly grateful for…

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The Gallery: Green

I’m stretching the theme a little far this week because these pictures are not really green… but they are plants in my garden which are looking divine at the moment…

And they are both ‘first’ as in:-

It’s the first time the  fir has grown cones, we never expect such a lovely colour!

It’s the first time the Wisteria has bloomed so profusely and fully, usually some part of the flower is fading by the time the bottom flowers open… and the smell! Wow…

Happy Summer

The Gallery; My Blog

Ooooo Hard Tara! Hard…

Mostly because even a year in I’m not really that sure what this is Allabout, us, certainly, but I often joke it’s allaboutme me me!

So I stole an idea from tumblr….

Yeah… they had pictures hanging on a pretty tree in a wood somewhere but the fact that this is taken in our conservatory is fairly typical of my blog too…

It took me a while to get the balance right which tickled me pink because I’m still trying to get the balance right of all this mishmash they call life, which is one of the main reasons I blog, to get the thoughts out of my cotton wool infested brain.

This weeks theme Tara is a stroke of genius – Thanks xx

Click on the cup to go too Tara’s blog, Sticky Fingers – to see the other entries

The Gallery: Tomorrow

When I think of tomorrow in a figurative way (not just plain old Thursday) I think of Blue Skies and Sunshine. I start feeling hopeful, wishful and often down right soppy.  I find myself wishing for ‘things’ to be fine, not just the “Oh, me? Yeah I’m fine…” utterances which come out every time I’m asked, but the really fine – healthy, happy contentment, no worries, no stress, no problems type of fine.

Isn’t that what we all want for tomorrow?

The Gallery: Hair…

*Deep sigh* That is the sound of the only female member of my family to get the straight hair… My Mother has gently wavy hair, my sisters cockscrew curls… My daughter well, it started off non existent but as you will see… yeah, curls!

Please pay a visit to Sticky Fingers to see some more entries…

The Gallery; Simple Pleasures

Simple pleasures…  a few things spring to mind… like my daughter saying to me earlier this week “Mummy my bum is eating my pants!” or the feeling when I get to put my spoon through the seal of a new jar of coffee, knowing it will make ‘that’ popping sound and then the smell reaches my nose… yum….

Can’t easily take a photo of those though…  There is something I do enjoy (very much) that is very simple and very indulgent…  A plate of olive oil and balsamic vinegar with a smattering of italian herbs and if I’m feeling frisky, some garlic salt too; then rip up some crusty bread and mop it all up.

Very simple, very pleasurable…

Please do pop over to Tara’s blog at Sticky Fingers by clicking the cup to see all the other entries.

The Gallery: Expressions…

Happy Gallery Day Everyone!

Today the Gallery theme is Expressions, there are so many to choose from! So I went for one that stopped me in my tracks…

He’s going to be a heart breaker

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The Gallery: Shapes

It’s  Gallery time again, I was flummoxed by this weeks theme – Shapes – So many possibilities and yet I couldn’t settle on an idea until I overheard my LM say “Show me, show me shapes.”

So I decided he could do it this week…

So, Little Man… Show us, show us shapes…

Diamond!

Rectangle

Arch

He had a lovely morning finding these shapes for you!

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