Out and about
Dryathon day 16: Half way snow day!
Today was an official snow day! It was rumoured that temperatures got down to minus 14 in the village last night which is pretty chilly to say the least. Over 260 of the schools and colleges across Norfolk were closed so it meant a day off for our two teenagers. As I work from home…
Read MoreAdvent: 8th December – An unexpected sunset
Today I was going to be Blogging about the Shipdham Christmas Tree Festival which kicked off this whole advent blog idea last year. Driving across to Shipdham the sky was amazing. For a change I had a decent camera with me so I seized the moment. I have loads of photos of the Christmas trees…
Read MoreAdvent Blog: 1st December
So another year…another Christmas… another Advent Blog. Today was a good day – after watching my daughter Reya play football in the freezing cold (and score a cracking goal!) we hit the shops in Norwich to start our Christmas shopping. I meant to put in a camera but forgot so had to make do with…
Read MoreTexture Tuesday
I have had great fun in the last week making some of my own textures splattering virtual paint on virtual canvasses. These two pictures use my brown grunge texture along with some free Textures I recently downloaded from the lovely Two Lil’ Owls Studio which you can download HERE.
Read MoreWordless Wednesday
Just a few words as this is the first wordless Wednesday. I have seen this idea of posting photos with out words on a number of Blogs and most recently on The Simple Things website (a fab new magazine that I just love!) so I though I’d give it a go….
Read MoreI popped out for a paper…
… and came back with a sunset
Read MoreMy crazy house
We live in an Old Methodist Chapel and we are currently renovating our big living space. It’s all rather crazy!
Read MoreWaiting
A bit of a different post today. I took this picture on Friday while I was shooting a wedding at the Assembly House in Norwich. As I was rushing to the front door of the building to wait for the arrival of the Bride I spotted this old lady waiting for a taxi. She seemed…
Read MoreMy convolvulus is rampant!
“That garden’s a mess!” muttered my Dad as he gazed out of our kitchen window on Sunday afternoon. He was right of course – as usual my early spring enthusiasm for planting, growing and tending is now just a dim and distant memory. At the beginning of the summer – after watching an episode of…
Read MoreA teenager at last!
It seems like my daughter Reya has been a tweenager for ever! But yesterday we finally reached that great milestone of full teendom when Reya turned 13 (and finally got her own Facebook account!) It was a pretty full on weekend. I took her and some friends shopping in Norwich and let them get on…
Read MoreShutters, châteaux and sunshine
As I type the wind is howling outside the window and the rain is lashing down – a far cry the glorious weekend that has just passed and our lovely last minute, end of August holiday in France. The Pixel Chef Blog has been more than a little neglected over the summer – we have…
Read MoreBeauty in decay
I was listening to a piece on Radio 4 this morning about photographer Bob Reinhardt who has dedicated years of his life to photographing Scottish graveyards and who has just opened an exhibition in Edinburgh Central Library. Eager for more information I did a quick Google to find out more about the exhibition and his…
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