The theme for The Gallery this week is your favourite photograph. I’ve been a total geek since Edward was born and everyday I’ve taken a photo of him. He has his own little blog which I use for updating the extended family on his progress. My iPhoto is creaking with the amount of photos I’ve taken since he was born and they’re organised into daily events, as well as the best of each week, and finally the best of the best of each week which get turned into a mini mosaic and uploaded to his blog and my flickr account.…
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Looking through my photographs of Edward’s first six months I’m struck by just how many pics there are of him smiling! According to my scrupulous records he first smiled on his 35 day and he quickly learnt to laugh too. This pic is one of my favourite. Edward seems to save his biggest smiles for when daddy walks through the door after a hard day at the office. I’m not jealous when I’m the one who changes the nappies, feeds him, washes his dirty clothes, etc as each smile makes my heart leap that little bit higher inside. This post…
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The theme for The Gallery this week is a celebration. I see a few people have chosen a photo of their wedding day but I’m not ashamed to admit that my wedding day wasn’t the best day of my life! We both dislike being the centre of attention and found the planning stressful and the day itself a bit overwhelming. Our honeymoon was a different matter. The picture I’ve chosen sums up our 2 week jaunt around Scandinavia. No, it didn’t rain all the time (!) but we had a laugh exploring new places, travelling by plane, boat, train through…
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This weeks theme for The Gallery is a Photo I’m Proud of. Since my little one was born I’ve tried to take a photograph of him every day and posted it here. I found that the quality of my photographs wasn’t very good so recently upgraded to a Lumix G Micro System. The photographs are crystal clear and it’s taken me a while to choose just one photo of my gorgeous little man. Edward sucking his fingers (we’re still waiting for him to cut his first tooth!). This post is for Week 24 of The Gallery: A Photo I’m Proud…
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Instead of posting a picture I’m going to re-direct you to my other blog. Just before Edward was due my husband thought it would be fun to give the baby his or her own blog , where we could post photos and let our relatives know what we were up to. Although I thought this was a great idea I didn’t want the responsibility of keeping it up to date whilst juggling a new baby! Fast forward two weeks after Edward came along and my husband had posted some pics on the baby blog when he was taken ill. He…
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My little one has reached the stage where he loves to play. He spends the whole day laughing and giggling but his face really lights up when you get down to his level and play. We’ve tried not to go too mad buying toys but I didn’t anticipate his favourite pasttime would be lying on his baby gym sucking plastic rings! This post was written for Week 21 of Tara’s Gallery The theme this week was Playtime For more ideas for playtime check out The Play Academy.
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In July 2008 we were lucky enough to spend a day exploring the acoustic mirrors at Denge followed by Derek Jarman’s garden in the shadow of Dungeness nuclear power station. The garden was built around his cottage on the shingle beach. Flowers were planted around items which had been collected locally, including shells, driftwood, and fishing tackle. Flower beds was interspersed with stone and wooden circles and interesting metal sculptures. I love this place although I wouldn’t want to live there! This post is for Week 21 of The Gallery: Nature
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So I’ve discovered I have no exciting photographs of creatures. It’s not that I don’t like wildlife I just don’t see much of it living in Zone 3! I have found a lovely photograph of a robin I took at Norwood Cemetery in January 2008. I’ve always been fascinated by the Magnificent Seven: Kensal Green Cemetery – 1832, West Norwood Cemetery – 1837, Highgate Cemetery – 1839, Abney Park Cemetery – 1840, Nunhead Cemetery – 1840, Brompton Cemetery – 1840 and Tower Hamlets Cemetery – 1841. This photograph was taken in West Norwood Cemetery after I became obsessed with finding…
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The theme for Week 15 of The Gallery is motherhood. Although this isn’t the best photo of me and Edward it’s one which makes me smile. Before I became a mother I had no idea what it really entailed and I’m no expert yet. Edward is now 3 months old and so far I’ve spent most of my time feeding and burping him. I permanently have a stack of muslins somewhere on my person and the washing machine is always on to make sure I have a fresh supply to hand. This photo was taken on our first family holiday…