Into t he home stretch now, 6 days left. I saved my Christmas Tree lights for today’s post, hope everyone is having a fab day.
Day 360~366
Tag: Christmas Tree
The Sunday Fraggle Report
I didn’t pick up my camera until Wednesday night this week, when I was treated to a magnificent sunset over the houses.
That was from my front bedroom, and from the back of the house we also got the moon mixed up in it all.
I took some more shots of my christmas tree,
possibly went over the top there :). Managed to get a better picture of the birds on The Happy Eater tree..these are long tailed tits.
Today all Phil’s kids and grandkids came for a visit, and I got a happy shot of the newest one, Liddy
this was the best of the bunch, she was flapping her arms and wiggling around a lot so most were blurry.
I took Phil to hospital on Tuesday to have his laser eye surgery, the procedure was over and done with really quickly and a heck of a lot quicker than the time it took to get a prescription from the pharmacy there! Anyway he’s OK with no bad after effects so that all went well.
It’s been a strange week without Storm chucking up everywhere and wanting cuddles. There’s a big hole in my life where she used to be. Skye is our next concern as over the past couple of days she’s not been eating. Of course she’s a chunky girl so might be on a diet, but she’s having a strange week too. She’s managed something today though so fingers crossed there isn’t anything to worry about.
I’ve been trying some creative still life photography and might get into it a bit more, I quite like the faffing about.
So back to work tomorrow for 3 days, then 5 off over Christmas, yay!
laters gaters, have a cool Yule.
🙂 ❤ ❄️☃️🎄
The Christmas Fraggle Report.
Well it’s been a while but December has been busy. Work has been hectic with trying to sort everyone out so they can hear The Queens speech on the TV 🙂 We had our grandson Callum to stay a couple of weekends ago, and last weekend I travelled down south to see Ben, Charlotte & Lewis. Managed a few pictures along the way so here we go..
Firstly another trip to see my clients who live near Finchale (pronounced Finkle) Abbey, and it was a nice day with the sun out but low in the sky.
That’s been a rare blue sky and grey days and rain have been a constant on my travels. This week I had to park and wait for a client and saw a rooftop gathering of pie fodder..
but 10 mins later..
the pigeons had left and a rainbow appeared bringing a bit of blue sky with it, that didn’t last long.
It was great fun having Callum to stop over and most fun was had with the ducks in the bath.
And also lovely for me to see Ben & Lewis on my visit down south. Though not so brilliant for Ben who had a bad toothache, so painkillers and a visit to the dentist took up a fair amount of my first day,but eventually got him sorted.
Apart from a trip into town when it was dry but freezing, the weather was mostly raining so much staying indoors, keeping warm.
So this week I only worked Monday & Tuesday and had Wednesday off to prepare for Christmas day lunch and do some tidying up. All accomplished quite easily 🙂
Christmas day was lovely, just me and my hubby so we opened our presents, I cooked dinner, and we played with our toys.
This was my present from Phil, a refurbished land camera, it’s a tricky beast to use and so far I’ve botched my 1st 3 attempts to get a photo out of it! Luckily I got a shed load of film too so hopefully I can get the hang of it soon and post some cool polaroids. In the meantime my last year present Polaroid 600 is still on the go and I took a couple with it. Not sure why they have a green cast, maybe because I didn’t store the film in the fridge.
I had Phil take a shot of me injecting the turkey with melted butter, it looks like our turkey is a junkie 😀
Got some fab new slippers from Shelley, they are SO warm and toasty, my feet are in love with them.
And my friend Kathy who I went to stay with in USA sent me a picture of Phil & I she had taken whilst we were there, and did her artistic stuff with it, awesome work.
Phil got loads of blu-rays and whisky and I got some vodka liqueur with gold flecks in it and some champagne. Dinner was lush, Phil made the Yorkshire puddings, (we usually do ready-mades for normal Sunday lunch, but Christmas Lunch is too special for frozen stuff) and used the 3 glass measurement method!
We were stuffed!
Always room for champers though 🙂
and I have kept the corks from every bottle of champagne I’ve ever had with all the names of who shared them and what the date was written on them, it’s been a long time since I added to the collection!
Phil has had an analogue Christmas too, as his friend Mick needed to get his record deck working, so gave it to Phil to do, so we have been listening to vinyl records!
and this is Phil taking pictures of his DAC that he got himself for Christmas about 2 months ago!!
So that’s Christmas done, boxing day today so now to sort out Turkey & Veg Crumble!
Laters gaters 😉
The Sunday Fraggle Report
Winter is Coming…as the saying goes, or rather it’s here, and my photography has dropped, grey days and wet days so last week didn’t bring much in the way of pleasant views.
My work mornings and evenings have mostly consisted of the above, roadworks everywhere, traffic jams and queues, it gets wearing! Never mind, on my travels I meet other miserable creatures and I stopped and had a chat with this fellow..
gave him a handful of fresh grass and had a pat on his nose. He seemed lonely.
My lovely hubby had a few days off and did the grocery run, bought me some chocolates too, 🙂
This week hasn’t been any better with the weather or the traffic, but I managed a sunset when I was in MacDonalds carpark having a cappucino.
Also we had two really cold sharp nights and the moon is on our side of the world so I’ve been practising my astro photography.
I think they came out different colours because I left the WB on ‘shadey’ for the first one, but I like it as it is.
My Christmas present from Phil arrived this week 🙂 and I’ve been SO good not to open it, only 18 days to go!
Phil also got our new Christmas Tree from ASDA when he went to the supermarket, and couldn’t find a plain one so had to get one with integral lights, the instructions were not too bad and we managed to get it working this weekend.
and so it was time to get all the decorations out..
and this is what the tree looks like now!
We also have a tree outside I got lights for a couple of years ago, poor Phil, I cajoled him into getting them on this year and he did them even though it was horrid outside.
and it looks fab!
Today has been a nice quiet day, Shelly & Cal came over for a visit, and I cooked Sunday lunch for Phil and me, chicken breasts stuffed and wrapped in garlic and herb stuffing with glazed carrots, green beans and lush roasties.
and now I”M stuffed. Time to get ready for work and start all over again.
laters gaters 😉
fraggle ~ rocking a camera across the Universe 
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