kids

September 20, 2020September 20, 2020Posted in Fuji, FujiX-T2, fujiXT1, people, photographyTagged children, fraggle, kids, photography66 Comments

“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence”. —Denis Waitley

“A person’s a person, no matter how small”. — Dr. Seuss

Never have more children than you have car windows. — Erma Bombeck

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going. —P. J. O’Rourke

Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance. Joseph Chilton Pearce

Cal & new friend, Washington Wildfowl trust,UK 2015

“You know what the great thing about babies is? They are like little bundles of hope. Like the future in a basket”. Lish McBride

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. —George Santanaya

Arbeia Roman Fort, South Shields, UK 2016

“Kids, They Dance Before They Learn There Is Anything That Isn’t Music“. —William Stafford

A child who loves animals is an adult who has compassion for people – Toni Payne

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. —Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child’s eye – it is very beautiful. –Kailash Satyarthi

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings. —Hodding Carter

Stay tooned for whatever comes next 🙂

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Day 241~366

August 28, 2016Posted in 366, books, colours, family, Fuji, people, photography, uncategorisedTagged 366, August2016, Colouring in books, colours, day241, family, fraggle, Fuji XT-1, kids, photography11 Comments

A colouring book is a type of book containing line art to which a reader may add colour using crayons, coloured pencils, marker pens, paint or other artistic media. Traditional colouring books and colouring pages are printed on paper or card. Some colouring books have perforated edges so their pages can be removed from the books and used as individual sheets. Others may include a story line and so are intended to be left intact.

Paint books and colouring books emerged in the United States as part of the “democratization of art” process, inspired by a series of lectures by British artist Joshua Reynolds, and the works of Swiss educator Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and his student Friedrich Fröbel. Many educators concluded that all, regardless of background, students stood to benefit from art education as a means of enhancing their conceptual understanding of the tangible, developing their cognitive abilities, and improving skills that would be useful in finding a profession, as well as for the children’s spiritual edification.The McLoughlin Brothers are credited as the inventors of the colouring book, when, in the 1880s, they produced The Little Folks’ Painting Book, in collaboration with Kate Greenaway. They continued to publish colouring books until the 1920s, when the McLoughlin Brothers became part of the Milton Bradley Company.

(info from Wiki)

Had the grandkids over today, and as they were colouring in, I thought yay! there’s my topic for today!

Liddy eating the crayon box, Livvy and Cal colouring in.

Day 132~366

May 11, 2016Posted in 366, Fuji, fujiXT1, photography, uncategorisedTagged 366, boys, climbing, day132, fraggle, Fuji XT-1, kids, May2016, photography, Tree6 Comments

Got home at reasonable time this evening and went straight out to get my shot. I was going to a macro shot, but the tree was entertaining some friends when I got there, so I shot that instead.

The Sunday Fraggle Report~Fathers Day

June 21, 2015June 21, 2015Posted in family, Fuji, people, photographyTagged family, Fathers Day, fraggle, Fuji XT1, kids13 Comments

Thought I would have a break from all the history lessons 🙂 and post some up to date stuff as it was Fathers Day today, and Phil’s son & daughter and all the Grandkids came round to see him. Not often we see them all together, and it is great fun to see them in action.