A new project

Today I was going through blogs and found this on Shimelle's blog http://www.shimelle.com/. Scrap your Day. You take photos on the 25th of each month and make an album of the year's photos. Go take a peek. Looks like a fun project to take on and I'm going to start getting the things I need and will be using the products that I have in my stash. Is anyone else doing this too?

More photos

I've taken a few more photos today. Hugh sat for me before going to work and then I took a couple of Emily on the train on our way up to London to meet Claire, who arrived back from Blackpool.





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I've been playing

After talking to Shannon (http://monkeyoranges.typepad.com/ ) I decided to have a go at shooting photos in Manual instead of my usual Programme or Av mode. I've been having fun and although I've still got a long way to go, I'm fairly happy with the results I've been getting. Here are some of my first attempts.

I had told Emily to just ignore me while I played around with settings so she wasn't posing in these.

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Our house feels empty

Today Claire and Chris left for Blackpool. Chris was going home after spending Claire's birthday week down here with us and Claire has gone to spend her second week of holidays with him in Blackpool.

This evening, Norma flew back to South Africa after spending three weeks in the UK. We'll miss her but at least this time we know that they are thinking of coming back to live here. By the end of the year she is hoping to be back .... fingers crossed that all goes well.

Norma with her son Kyle, who has lived here for the past six years.

It was also my nephew Max's 17th birthday today. We went round for birthday tea and cakes this afternoon and to say bon voyage to Norma. This coming week is going to feel very quiet!
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