How’s that for some big, slightly scary, smiles. My son Rory, aged just 13 at the time, took all of these photos when we visited Nice in February 2009 to see the annual carnival, a...
The Gallery – A Celebration – Family Reunion
Do you see a family resemblance? That’s me on the left and my second cousin, Toni, on the right. We used to go to the same school, Toni was born at the same time...
The Gallery – Back to School – Little boy, big boy
Here’s Rory starting in Reception class with his smart blazer and lunch bag. . See below for his first day of Secondary school, in 2007, about to walk to the bus stop with his rucksack over...
The Gallery – One Day In August- Plums and Duck Tape
You may remember my resourceful husband used his trusty roll of duck/duct tape on holiday to fix a myriad of things from splintered decking to repairing holes in the massive rubber rings for the...
The Gallery – A Novel Idea – A Room with a View
The theme for “The Gallery” this week is a photograph which represents a treasured book. My chosen novel is A Room with a View by E.M. Forster. The novel tells of Miss Lucy Honeychurch and...
The Gallery – Where’s Mum Gone to?
For The Gallery this week the theme is “Can you see what it is yet?”. Tara has asked us all to photograph something at an odd angle or focus so that the object looks different....
The Gallery – Holidays – Laughs on Lake Garda
The theme for this week’s Gallery is ‘Holidays’. Right up my street this one, though fraught with difficulty as to what to choose. In the end I plumped for some photos from...
The Gallery – Creatures – Small Furry Animal
Two summers ago we had a fascinating fly-drive round Eastern Canada, visiting cities such as Toronto, Montreal and Quebec. A few days were spent in Ottawa, which I had read had been dubbed one...