1st March and I am not sure which photo to choose!

Today Steven & I went to Attingham Park to take photos for the painting with light course - I ended up taking 135 photos!! Some better than others, but again I have the dilemma of which one to choose for my photo of the day.

They are all better than the one I should have chosen for today - the large hole in my kitchen wall where Steven has been trying unsuccessfully to fit my new extractor fan - it was a good job we had to go out otherwise, I think bodily harm may have happened to someone!

I am going to post a few and then mull it over for a few days - do I want a nice arty photo or one that will remind me of what I was doing in a few years time?

28th February photo

Again this is not the photo I had planned for today!

The plumber came this morning and fixed the water supply to our new fridge - so I had planned a nice photo of it in action - but the cold water comes out OK but not the ice - not sure why it is not working, but I can see a phone call to the help line on Monday morning!! That photo is going to have to wait until it is up and running with ice galore.

So instead I am posting a photo that I had planned for yesterday - a stream in Townbrook Hollow on the Long Mynd where I went walking.

27th February photo -ahhh

Well this was not the photo I had planned for today - I have been out walking this afternoon and took lots of photos for the painting with light course, so I thought I would use one of those.

That was until I found this little surprise on my pillow!

Jessica went back to Norwich this morning - she has been at home since she broke up for the Christmas Holidays and then had an 8 week elective placement here in Shropshire. When she left at midday I did a few jobs around the house and then went out to the Long Mynd for some geocaching and walking. I did not find this little note and sweeties until I got back in this evening - ahh - the note reads:- To Mum, I love you millions. Miss You. Jess xxx .

She is such a lovely girl and now I am stuck in the house with 3 boys!!! (Ross is back for 2 days off already!)

Just so you can see what I have to put up with - Cheryls instructions for this weeks photo assignment was to take photos of willing models - I think you can tell that these 2 were NOT willing models!!

26th February photo - my craft room

Ross went back to work at PGL last week so I got my craft room back. But as a 23 year old lad had been living in the room for 4 months it has taken me a while to sort it out!

Today's photo is my lovely Expedit shelving from Ikea all nice and tidy - it did not look like this last week. It really pleases me to see all my scrap stash looking nice and tidy - just need to start creating now.


This is the opposite wall, showing my worktop cleared of all his stuff with room for me to work at - just need to add my printer and laptop.
And this is the layout I have put out ready to start working on. I have looked at it for the last few evenings but have not come up with any inspiration. I keep hoping if I leave it out long enough some little Elves (like in the Elves and the shoemaker) will come along and complete it and make the perfect layout with it because I don't seem to be able to do so!
Sorry for the poor quality photos- this room used to be the garage, which has been turned into a room, so it is long and thin and quite dark as it only has one side window.

25th feb photo - return trip to the Berwyns

Today Thelma and I returned to the Berwyns for a hike to the summit. I don't have a landscape photo for February365 project, so have chosen this one as my photo of the day.





So here it is - Cader Berwyn in all its cloudy glory. We climbed up to the highest peak in the photo and I think we had already walked for about an hour by the time we got to this spot - it was very high at 2723ft and it did make me huff and puff!





It was freezing at the top so we abandoned the idea of continuing for a further 6 miles to reach another 2 geocaches - we will leave them for a warmer day.

Me with the geocache at the summit. My hands were so numb with the cold that I could hardly write in the log book.

We ate lunch in a stone shelter at the summit and having seen a Cadburys cream egg on Vicki's 365 photo blog (here) yesterday - I could not resist them so bought us some for our treat.

There were a couple of breaks in the cloud on the way up so we stopped for a photo opportunity - the mountains and views from up here are just gorgeous.

Once we had walked down we called at the top of Pistal Rhyader waterfalls and Thelma took this photo which I think has come out well - the rock structures are just fab and I would like to really like to use it as my POTD - but as I did not take it - I don't suppose I can.

My new book! 24th Feb photo

My new book arrived from Amazon this morning and I am so excited about it - I can't wait to start reading it.

When I did my recent Humanities degree with Birmingham University, Anthropology was one of the modules which I really found fascinating and the main anthropologist which caught my imagination was Margaret Mead. Her insight into the role of women in society and sexuality was so sharp and spot on and changed the perception of women for the better.

So imagine my delight when I found this new book (it was only published in November 2008) on Amazon on Saturday whilst I was doing a bit of browsing - I should really stop just having a little look around that site - my shopping basket is choc full of stuff I want.

I can't wait to start reading this book tonight - that will be it it for a few days now - nothing else is going to get done until it is finished!

23rd February photo

When I was on my diet - I started having a grapefruit everyday for breakfast and even though the diet has now finished (about to restart again soon) I have continued to have one everyday as I love them. These are my favourite - though at £1.79 for 3 they are quite expensive as I have to buy 3 packs each week.