January glimpses

Hello, hello! A (very) few shots of a simple and not-too-well January...

There was the day Warren suggested we have pancakes - uh, YES PLEASE! And J had his first pancakey nibbles...

I've enjoyed reading and researching birthday ideas ahead of March's big 1st. I was delighted to find this Waldorf idea, the Birthday Ring...

As was J, it seems....

Last year I painted some wood with chalk board paint but hadn't slated it, so seized my opportunity.

Seconds later, it was in somebody's hand ... You have to be speedy around here!

Wonderful J.

How was your January?

October glimpses

Summer has said its final goodbyes and left us with wonderful orange leaves and the less wonderful clocks going back. A little snapshot of my October...

J continues enjoying the mirror. He especially enjoys the mirror baby laughing.

Can it be? Not only has a gerberra plant not died on my watch, but is positively flourishing!

Spice cupboard re-organised and purged; spice jars emptied and cleaned.

In Fishguard, disappointed with the general lack of, well anything to do, we found a funky cafe. The menu suggested Choctails, hello! The only flavours left were liquorice, pineapple or violet. I don't like liquorice, but why I suggested violet over pineapple I struggle to recall. It's probably blocked out by how very disgusting the violet choctail was! Yuk! So, back home, I decided to make some of my own...

And then, I 'made' some chocolate-covered strawberries. Not covered so well as the last batch, but still delish!

My loveliness has learnt to clap! It was such an unexpected joy! It's really hard to capture though...

I also made some almond milk - check me out!

I left the clock in J's room on BST, or J time, to help me remember what his body is telling him in the midst of the trauma of what my watch is telling me!

September glimpses

September has been and gone. What did it hold for me?

A chance to get out some paint and make a chalkboard...

I introduced J to light play (roll on hanukkah!)...

We bought some cooking apples during a visit to the National Trust, which I transformed into apple chutney. The jury's still out on its success though...

J's wooden-themed treasure basket...

A lovely week in Pembrokeshire. Warren has begun imparting essential life skills; in this case, skimming stones...

Naturally J and I went on holiday with Warren, which also means that, naturally, it was boaty...

J started on solids over the summer and has somewhat overtaken the freezer...

Learning

Wow, it's been a while since I've been here! Life has been quite busy, brim-full of learning curves. The main two have been Warren's return to shift work in June; I'm a girl who loves routine which isn't so easy with a young baby and a husband working nearly 13 hour shifts including nights. The other is that babies are quite a handful, literally. And they require quite a lot of stuff. Carrying a baby and at least one bag isn't hugely conducive to whipping out my SLR and capturing a shot of something that just captured me.

This is where my phone has come in handy. Of course we all know it's an easy and brilliant way of snapping the moment; it's about memory making and keeping, not necessarily about photography. Unlike pleasant places. I hadn't taken anything other than the occasional snapshot before I started 365 in March 2013. Its purpose was to serve as the platform for my baby steps into photography. I may only be toddling now, but this blog is about photography first. Photography as a means of capturing and communicating my seemingly small, but hopefully colourful and life-giving world. So, hopefully I'm back. Themed posts aren't practical, 365 isn't possible. But, hopefully, glimpses of my day-to-day will be.

It's good to be back.