red mum

This is just a short post to wish you all a Happy Christmas, hope whatever you are doing that you are with loved ones and having a wonderful day. I’m off now for some turkey

I thought I would share one of the pics I’m putting into the book I’ve been doing for her 18th. The first one was taken nearly 16 years ago when I was visiting a friend in Portstewart. I think it was Feb/March and freezing and we had a very wet, wild and windy walk on the beach. I took pics that weekend, well I must have because I brought my camera, but I cannot for the life of remember what they were or where they are. This is the one pic I think of from that weekend and it was taken by my pal.

I do remember that the negative was blackly dense and completely under exposed. But when printing up the other pics (that I have no recollection of) as I slide the negative through the holder I realised there was something on the negative. So a little bit of messing about later I found this, its of me and the Young Wan walking on the beach. And I love it.

The banding in the pic is probably down to my not leaving it in the stop bath for long enough and its faded over the years. But still its one of my favourites, the others are just very cute

I have finally admitted to myself that I have messed up/failed my 365, work has been outrageously busy, along with the dark mornings and evenings, so many different factors were all nails in the coffin and so bloody close to the end of the year but hey ho what can you do.

I still have a glut of pics to post as I was missing days and didn’t want to do anything until I had them all sorted. Then I got caught up in doing up a Blurb book for herself’s 18th which is coming up in the next couple of weeks which meant hunting out, scanning, and cleaning up (lots and lots of cleaning up) of pics. I’ve been cutting out pics and sourcing all the bits and pieces I wanted for the book.

So the final date was approaching to get the book uploaded so it would be sent in time for her birthday and my baby got sick. No not the Young Wan or indeed the doggy, but my mac. The monitor went and bang went my progress on the book which had some final tweaking completely stalled. I have still to leave the mac in to be fixed but the hard drive seems okay as we were able (thanks Tom) to find the blurb file and copy it to a hard drive. Fantastic Neil who just got a beautiful new computer lent it to me but (and I should have checked) it didn’t have a five point port so I sit her no further along.

Book problems aside, which I’ll sort out somehow, I am hoping whatever is going on with my baby is easy to mend. Fingers crossed.

Anyway seeing as how I am not working on the book tonight, I thought I would just throw up some of the pics I have been waiting to post as part of the now-defunct 365. As I find the others, when I get my computer back up and running I’ll throw them too.

I have it in my head to put the 365 pics all together in a movie, but then again that might not happen either; we’ll see. Pics to follow.