Posted on October 16, 2017
I’m not really remotely a pet person, but this is Bo’sun and he belongs to my daughter and her family.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Pets
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Dogs, Family, Pets
Posted on December 5, 2016
This week’s theme of ‘Freedom’ is encapsulated, I think, in this image of my grandson on a zipline in the play area of the Beecraigs Country Park just outside Linlithgow in Scotland. He was happy to be doing it and I was happy that my attempt at a panning shot, blurring the background (a little), kind of worked.

52 Weeks Photo Challenge: Week 18 – Freedom
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: 52 Weeks, Family, Freedom, Play
Posted on November 29, 2016
‘Laughter’ is the theme for this week’s challenge hosted by The Girl That Dreams Awake.
A game of peek-a-boo is guaranteed to produce laughter in a two year old. This photograph of one of my grandsons comes with free reflection.

Category: Uncategorized Tagged: 52 Weeks, 52Weeks, Children, Family, Laughter, Reflections
Posted on November 22, 2016
Last year, as a wedding present for our son and (now) daughter-in-law, Madame made a king-sized bed quilt, with most of the stitching done by her own fair hands. It took close to a full year to complete, and the last Swarovski crystal being stitched on just two days before the wedding. This is a work-in-progress image.

Posted on November 1, 2016
Hard to believe that we’re now a quarter of the way through the 52 Weeks Photo Challenge (I think you’ll find that last week’s ‘Street’ was – correctly – tagged as Week 12) hosted by The Girl That Dreams Awake.
This week’s subject is ‘Face’, and who doesn’t have lots of images to choose from to respond to that?
Taken a few years ago, this is one of my grandsons sufficiently intrigued by the camera pointing at him to pause briefly from splashing around in his Pirate Boat paddling pool to stare right down the lens, just like a pro.

Posted on April 9, 2016
When I saw that this week’s topic was ‘Future’, I knew exactly which image I wanted to use. Unfortunately, I didn’t take it (my son did) and nor do I have a copy in my library. However, the immensely talented Madame made a wall-hanging based on it, which now sits over our stairs. Here is my photograph of that:

It shows our twin grandsons taking their first unaccompanied walk together down the beach to the Arabian Gulf in Abu Dhabi. It always looked to me that they were heading off into the future.
I think I know why, too. When I was about their age now (eight), I remember a big – or so it seemed to me at the time – picture painted on the wall of the old Birkenhead Market. It showed a boy and a girl heading off down a path together towards a brightly shining sun: As I recall, it was actually an advert for childrens’ shoes and was captioned ‘The Highway To Health’. Anyway, the photo on the beach brought it back to me.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Future
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: Abu Dhabi, Family, Future, Memory, Quilting, Quilts, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge
Posted on March 23, 2016
I recently posted a photograph of one of my grandsons in blissful contemplation of a pain au chocolat. That was in response to a WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge. Now, as I have twin grandsons, Hugh’s latest weekly challenge – Sweet – provides a perfect opportunity to redress the balance and post a photograph of my other grandson in equally blissful contemplation, this time of an ice-cream. Chocolate and pistachio: what’s not to like?

Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Family, Grandson, Hugh's Weekly Photo Challenge, Ice Cream, Sweet
Posted on January 16, 2016
As soon as I saw this week’s challenge, I knew exactly which image I wanted to use. From the windowsill in my grandsons’ bedroom:

Weekly Photo Challenge: Alphabet
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: Alphabet, Family, Water, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge, Windows
Posted on December 20, 2015
Daughter, son-in-law and grandsons are going to gather with us for Christmas, arriving on Tuesday. We think we’re ready for them…

Weekly Photo Challenge: Gathering
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: Christmas, Family, Gathering, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge
Posted on September 7, 2015
What could be more appropriate for this week’s theme of ‘Connected’ than a wedding?
I’m very happy to say that I took this photograph last Saturday at my son’s wedding. Stealing the show between the bride and groom is their much-loved dog.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Connected.
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: Connected, Dogs, Family, Wedding, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge