7 Days: Day 4 – Decorating Col. Jessop

I’ve been busy sourcing props and costumes for a film shoot of movie spoofs recently. As such, I’m hoping you’ll all stand as character witnesses for me if my browsing history should be flagged at MI5. That pistol I was looking for? It’s for James Bond. The sawn-off shotgun that took so much finding (but [...]

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24/30: A moo point

Way back in the summer – remember that time? – Suzy turned up one afternoon with a craft for us to do. A craft! She had a couple of little papier mâché animals and a packet of patterned tissue paper, a couple of brushes and a pot of glue. I took the cow and we [...]

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6/30: A little sewing

I needed a plastic bag today and knew that a particular one was in my craft box keeping a couple of bits and pieces together. As it happened, the plastic bag wasn’t big enough for what I needed, but the contents of the bag ended up keeping me occupied for the rest of the afternoon. [...]

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One week

We all made another trip to visit the new family yesterday. Mum and Dad had been the day before too, but as that particular visit had been initiated at 2am, I didn’t accompany them on that one. Sam had a problem with her c-section wound, which has fortunately turned out to be a couple of [...]

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Nothing ventured …

For a long time I’ve wanted to do something “more” with my photography, and I’ve finally found a way I like, putting the ideas into HTML and CSS at last. Since the new year I’ve been working on a new site to showcase some of my favourite shots, which can now be bought as prints, [...]

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So that was Christmas

And what did I do? Well there was 7 Days in the week running up to Christmas and I seemed to spend a lot of that time in the kitchen. Before that week I was quite quiet on the blog and Flickr, something for which I was heckled by Ray (Who? Ray!) when I spoke [...]

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