September Nostalgia..

It's my birthday in September and I started school just a few days before I was five years old. Straight in, full days and no part-time / nursery places like the children do today.

Well my 5th birthday was on the first Friday so off I went to school, party afterwards, or maybe the next day and a whole day on the Sunday to play with my presents.  'Cushtie' as DelBoy would say!  School cracked and a birthday under my belt.

Ahaha, not so simple for my Mum. 

Come Monday Morning the taxi for our school run arrived to collect us from the little spot just near our house and all hell broke loose: 
I was NOT going to School, 
I had been already (last week), 
I had lots more playing with the birthday toys to do.... 

...who ever said that school business was more than two or even three days until your birthday??

Needless to say I was bundled in the taxi, there was no option, no car at home to take me when I got over it. My cousin Neil looked after me and I suppose I got over it, as little kids do when they throw a screamer.  Dear Neil, he told the teacher about it at lunchtime and I was quite embarrassed when she called me to come chat to her and talk about why I didn't want to go to school.. that was almost as painful as the going in the taxi hours earlier! 

Mind you , that infant teacher was divine.. Miss Morley, she had the blackest hair and looked like she should have dated a pop star, definitely smelt great and had a long lasting effect on my school days.. yes I grew to like it (I didn't find it hard going) and teachers definitely had lasting influences on my choices.

Soooo.. Lucky Snappers..tell us your School day Stories..

Have you had tears and tantrums with your youngsters?

What has changed so much from when you were at school?

I am away in the States all week this week so I am being efficient and scheduling this..hope you are all well and I will peek and comment if I can during the week or when I get back.

Love to you all

Kathi xx

Let's reflect Challenge : September

Hello everybody,

don't we have a gorgeous weather this summer ?  

Sunshine, sunshine and again sunshine.

The only week it rained was the one I was on holidays, LOL. Ah it didn't matter (too much), we still had a lot of fun.

Well, actually preparing my posts in advance as always, the weather has kind of changed now, must cooler and humid. It has been pouring down yesterday.

Let's continue our little trip through the word LINING. Today we reached the letter N and the word I chose will probably surprise you. I selected it because it's a fun word, mostly very affectionate and caring and also it will give us an occasion to learn a bit more about each other again. 

Our word this month is : 

NICKNAME

According to our Friend Google  :

Nickname  : A familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name.

So may be you are going to be brave and tell us your nickname or the one you had when you were young, or may be you will do so for your partner, your kids, your pets, or something that belongs to you, like your car, or a piece of garment, or your first toy . . . the choice is yours.

This week, we are going to surprise each other with these stupid silly names that normally hardly make sense to anybody excepted to the person who gave it or received it but one thing I am convinced of, it's going to be fun.

Let me be the first and reveal some of my deep secrets. I will start with my step kids. When I first met David, he was 5 and a bit and I immediately nicknamed him "Einstein", I really don't know why. He of course immediately asked who Einstein was, LOL and after a long explanation, he was pretty pleased with the comparison. This nickname followed him until he was 18 or so.

As of Sophie, she was around 4 when I met her, cute as a bug and she received the nickname "Little Monkey". She was always moving quickly and smiling at me like she was up to some secret nonsense.  

During the week, I will tell you about the other nicknames which crossed my path. . . 

If you have a bit more spare time and would like a photo challenge, here we are: This week, take photos of things or people whose names only start with one of the letters we already used in this challenge : S, I, L, V, E, R or N. There are 7 letters for 7 days. You can do in any order you want.

My first photo is with R (for Rhea)

Take care everybody, Anne xxx
 

September Views

I think poor Jen has probably not been able to peep out from under the load of supermarket offers and back to school demands this weekend so I will just drop this note in until she can pop in.

If everyone can have their thinking caps on and get snapping those Views, it is getting a little autumnal now and that fabulous sunset last night was something to behold, I think most of the country saw it!

This is the line from Jen's chosen poem so if you have views which fit this theme then all the better..

Warm September brings the fruit

sportsmen then begin to shoot..

Love to all.. and here's my Window view from last night!


I will let Jen check in and we will set the link later..

Kathi xxx

That's what team members are all about, Kathi !!!
I don't manage to put this annoying link text on the left, but at least you can link your photos now. Anne xxx

Ooops.. August Quote week!

Darn it I am so sorry guys! 

Jen sent me the quote to post and I missed it as I pick up mail on my phone and it doesn't always translate properly!!

Still some hectic days here so I haven't peeked at everyone's 'times changing' posts I asked you for last week.. my house PC is still out of action with the wait on the kitchen reshuffle.. so bear with me.. here's Lynne! 

Well here we are at the end of August and it is my week again.

As I write this I still have to blog my nostalgia week for lovely Kathi.

I think having to be indoors and to search for photos rather stops me blogging whilst this lovely weather is here, so sorry that I will be a last minute Charlie this week.

Here is the quote for this week.

“When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and White you photograph their souls” Ted Grant

Edward "Ted" Grant was a South African Trotskyist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He was a founding member of the Militant tendency and later Socialist Appeal.

Born: July 9, 1913, Germiston, South Africa

Died: July 20, 2006, London

This week I would like you to concentrate on taking photos of people, first in colour and then changing the photo into B&W with your camera setting or using a photo programme if you can.

Show us your results.

If you don’t have a programme on your computer, try downloading free Picasa  http://picasa.download1b.com/. I prefer this to adobe myself, so easy to use.

Have a lovely week snapping people you know and don’t know, get your camera/phone out daily

Love

Lynne xx

Just passing by

Hello everybody,

I don't know if we got badly organized, but I noticed there is no upload for today, so let's get a last minute challenge, that can be replaced anytime by something else !

This week, I propose we take 2 pictures a day. The topic is free, but there are some rules:

Out of the 2 photos each day, one must be black & white and one in color  and one must be of a human (or pet) and the other one must be taken outside.

You can mix as you want.

Take care everybody and have a great Bank Holiday,

Anne xxx

Nostalgia : How things change..

Hi everyone, week 3 again, time for some Nostalgia and I have a confession to make! 

In the furore which is my building work and untidiness in our living rooms I have mislaid (no, not lost, just can't find it 'at the moment') the list of my subjects for each month, so we are winging it here..I was going to ask you about a special place or person but i think we have kind of covered that in some of the other months..

I was wondering what jobs people have had and how they have changed over the years?

What jobs did your parents do, maybe jobs which are now defunct or would be done very differently now?  How did jobs affect family life and how you grew up, what it made you want or dream for yourself?

I am sure we all have odd stories to tell..hope so!

I will try and pop in during the week with some extra thoughts, but if you would like to expand on this perhaps you could write a bit each day :

• your parents' jobs, how life has changed
• your first job, the mistakes you made!
• your best job
• the dream job you wish you had
• the worst job you ever had

.. and if you feel a little low on inspiration tell us about someone else's amazing job story, share some stories..

happy job hunting!

here's the linkie thing..

Let's reflect challenge : August

Hello everybody,

If everything went to plan, we are currently on holidays,  on our way to pick up our camper van where we will spend a week for the first time with hubby and the girls. I doubt I will find any Internet connection and I probably will have to wait for the week-end to see what you have been up to, but I will do my best.

Isn’t summer lovely? We had sunshine more than we could dream of having, we got some rain to cool off a bit and water our gardens and now we are back to full power hot ( well at least at the time I am preparing this ).

A couple of weeks ago I spent the week-end in Wales to see my father in law and celebrate my brother in law birthday. The week-end was lovely, the kids were with us and played with their cousins. We tried knifes throwing and archery on balloons. It was a “without work” week-end, what is pretty seldom for Dennis and I and it made us realize that sometimes we need to let go and if something is delayed, then so be it.

I chose our word this week, based on that nice experience and the word is :

                            Irrelevant

If you don’t know what it means, here are some synonyms : insignificant – unimportant.

To be happy and enjoy the moment, we sometimes need to let go of what we think we need to do but in fact is totally irrelevant at the current moment and choose to do something else, much more enjoyable.

I would like us to concentrate on the little ( or big ) things that annoy us and come between us and our happiness, the little things that we make so big but are in fact so small and we can forget so quickly.

This week, take a picture of all that you don’t do and leave for later and what you replaced it with.

Show us the dust you can write on, the car that really needs a body wash, the pile of ironing, the jungle developing in your garden . . . and in comparison the relaxing lunch, the playing with the kids, the afternoon spent crafting . . .

Let me be first on the wall of fame (shame). This is what decorates my landing's floor and honestly I really should have ordered the mess this afternoon but instead . . .

. . . I chose to go and visit my friend's new kitten.

Meet Kiki. Isn't she to melt ?

Ah . . . This week let’s be naughty and let’s enjoy it like there's no tomorrow. 

What should have you done and what have you done instead ?

Oh and if you would like to have an additional small photo challenge and make it a bit of a game at the same time, I propose you take a picture of something or someone, whose name starts with the same letter as the current day :

M for Monday
T for Tuesday
W for wednesday
T for Thursday
F for Friday
S for Saturday and 
S for Sunday

See you then and take care everybody, 

Anne xxx