5th July photo - chocolate & black cherry roulade

Its a bit of a cheat today's photo, as we made this delish cake last night - but as they were all queuing up to eat it, there was no way that I could possibly make them wait until today to officially slice it & photograph it. It was cut up and demolished before midnight oops!

So here it is - in all its gooey gorgeous way - the chocolate & black cherry roulade (it was delicious!!)

4th July 2009 - Pablo Neruda

A few weeks ago Jane Dean (who I admire very much) posted this poem on her blog and I thought it was just beautiful. I have never really paid much attention to poetry before and I did not know anything about the poet Pablo Neruda - except what I had gleamed from the film il Postino. So decided that I should broaden my horizons and this book arrived yesterday :-

It is a biography of Neruda's life, which apparently was complicated by politics and emotions, at a time when his home country Chile was also going through political & emotional turmoil. I have also ordered a book of his poems, so hopefully after reading his biography, I may be able to understand some of his poetry. I can't wait to tuck into this new book.

3rd July photo - ice lolly

At last a nice cool shot - a Fab lolly.

It took so long trying to actually get a photo - its not as easy as you would think to take a simple photo of a lolly - that it was starting to melt.

I tried the white background again - but still shadows!!

2nd July photo - hot not cool!!

Today's plans for a nice cool photo have gone awry!

I had a really good idea - go somewhere to get an ice cream and do a geocache as well - a walk up the Wrekin. But unfortunately when we got to the halfway up cafe it was shut!! It was a very warm afternoon to be walking up such a high hill - but there was a slight breeze at the top which helped a little. So no nice cool ice lolly photo - just a hot & sweaty hubby - not what I had in mind at all. Never mind we found a nice sneaky geocache and I have a good excuse to go looking for an ice lolly for tomorrow's photo.

I actually quite like this photo of Steven as it has - if you look very carefully - the steaming Buildwas power station cooling towers in the background.

It was so hot that there was a heat haze at the top - but you can see how lovely are Shropshire fields are.

The Wrekin stands 1335 feet high!

1st July photo - Jenni Thomas OBE

What a wonderful woman!

Karen, Lou & I were privileged to attend an event at Wolverhampton today hosted by The Child Bereavement Charity which Jenni founded in 1994. She has worked tirelessly to bring support to bereaved parents and education to health care professionals. It was a small gathering of just 20 of us - so we were able to interact, learn and be inspired by her.

30th June photo - pamper & torture!

Only a photo of the pamper thankfully!!

Today I had the luxury of a pedicure - I just love having my feet massaged and them feeling so soft and smooth. After this I had to have my regular leg wax - not pleasant at all but totally necessary.

I have already posted a photo of my feet looking beautiful after my last pedicure - so had to come up with a different shot this time. I thought these 3 bottles of nail polish reflected in the wavy mirror would be nice and arty - until I realised that when you photograph mirrors - you end up in them as well. But the other photo of lots of bottles of polish lined up - did not work I am having to use this one above as POTD.

29th June photo - St Chads Church

Today's photo is one of Shrewsbury's landmarks - St Chads Church. It sits on Town Walls overlooking the Quarry ( our park). It is quite unusual in that it is one of only a handful of round churches built in the UK. It is still open as a place of worship and because of its shape and excellent acoustics it is used for quite often for concerts.