Busy Bees So I've made a new deal with the dogs. I'd originally promised them that their weekend walks in the hills would be a camera-free affair, no stopping and waiting whilst I fiddle and fart arse around with settings. It seems it was a promise I couldn't keep. Not when there is so much to ... [ Read More ]
Early Morning Light
Early Morning Light I love everything about mornings. The peace and quiet, broken only by the sound of the birds greeting a new day. There's also a feeling that I get that I don't get at any other time of day. It's very similar to the feeling I used to get when doing night feeds when the children ... [ Read More ]
Night Happening
Night Happening Okay, this Sunday photo may not be to everyone's liking, but I wouldn't be me if I didn't grab my camera on spying this in the garden this morning. Yesterday evening when I was watering the garden this shed skin wasn't there. I'm sure I would have noticed if it had been. This ... [ Read More ]
Leaf Eating Wasp
Leaf Eating Wasp Last Sunday I had these Sunday photos all ready to use. And then life got in the way (in a good way) of me writing the post. What it has meant though is that this week I've not had to think too much about My Sunday Photo! Yay! It's been too hot and to busy to think too hard, so ... [ Read More ]
The Classic BLT Sandwich
The Young Persons Survival Guide To Leaving Home When I realised that last week was National Sandwich Week, I knew that a BLT sandwich recipe had to be the next post in my Young Persons Survival Guide To Leaving Home series. I never quite managed to get it out on time, but better late than ... [ Read More ]
Compost Heap Wall Through A Lens Ball
Compost Heap Wall Through A Lens Ball My mind has been wondering just how creative I can get using a lens ball as a prop. I've seen some really amazing photos on Instagram using them. The photos using lines and patterns to make the photo interesting are the ones that really catch my eye. I don't ... [ Read More ]
Pear Blossom
Pear Blossom When I don't have time to look through photos I've taken I transfer them to a folder on my desktop to go through later. Having been a bit short of time recently I seem to have accumulated several folders all saying 'to be sorted'. I do like to go through photos to see what has worked ... [ Read More ]
Perfect Fried Eggs
The Young Persons Guide To Leaving Home To start with I thought I would keep The Young Persons Survival Guide To Leaving Home nice and simple. I think it makes sense and if these posts are a touch to simple, then I apologise! When I told my daughter that I was sharing a 'recipe' for perfect ... [ Read More ]
The Journey Of A Drip
The Journey Of A Drip Once again I was a bit stumped for a post title. Just 'Drip' seemed a little bland and I thought the little bead of water deserved more. I know The Journey Of A Drip sounds like a chapter from an Adrian Mole book, but I like it. Maybe it is a chapter out of one of his books? ... [ Read More ]
How To Cook Runny Eggs And Soldiers
The Young Persons Survival Guide To Leaving Home My daughter is in her last few weeks of school and it won't be long before she will be spreading her young wings and flapping off into the big wide world. She and other young people like her would probably like to imagine themselves as gliding off ... [ Read More ]
True Blue
True Blue I've been sat here for I don't know how long trying to come up with a suitable title for this photo. Sometimes titles just come to mind in a flash and at others they just elude. Or is that just me? Last Sunday the Zakynthos Walking Group met up for the last walk of the 'winter'. It was ... [ Read More ]
Colour Popping Flowers & A Photo Bombing Dog
Colour Popping Flowers & A Photo Bombing Dog This is the time of year when flowers are at their best over here, everything is in the manic growing phase that happens just before the heat of summer really kicks in and everything stops or dies. Not having green fingers our garden is rather ... [ Read More ]
Hiking In The Peloponnese Part 3 & A Trip To Nafplio
Hiking In The Peloponnese The funniest thing happened... This post initially went out unfinished, due to scatterbrain here scheduling it and not having time to finish it. All sorted now though. This is the third and final part of my hiking in the Peloponnese posts... "Yay!" I hear you cry. "How ... [ Read More ]
At Last, I Have My Crystal Ball
At Last, I Have My Crystal Ball As a child, I was fascinated with crystal balls. Smooth and magical, I wondered if it was really possible to see what the future held by just looking into one. I'm now really quite grateful that isn't the case, I'm not sure I really want to know what life is going to ... [ Read More ]
Our Hiking Weekend In The Peloponnese Part 2
Hiking Weekend In The Peloponnese Last week I shared a post covering the first two days of our hiking weekend in the Peloponnese with Greece On Foot. This week I'm sharing part two. Yay! Last year I never got around to writing any subsequent posts to the first, so this year I'm determined to share ... [ Read More ]
Buddy Love
Buddy Love For the past two months, we've been looking after my parents' dog whilst they've been galavanting. It's said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and that is certainly true for Buddy. And as skanky an old dog, that she is, Buddy loves her (and we do too). He loves her manky old ... [ Read More ]
A Weekend Of Hiking In The Peloponnese
A Weekend Of Hiking In The Peloponnese Last year a few of us from the Zakynthos Walking Group spent a weekend of hiking in the Peloponnese with Greece On Foot, staying in the quaint coastal village of Tyros. It was such a good weekend we decided it would be criminal not to do it again, so last ... [ Read More ]
Common Blue Butterfly Tickles Me Pink
Common Blue Butterfly Tickles Me Pink Last weekend a group of us from the Zakynthos Walking Group were on the mainland for a few days of hiking in the Peloponnese. It was a wonderful weekend with, as you can imagine, plenty of photo opportunities. As a challenge and a way of learning, I decided ... [ Read More ]
Mirrored
Mirrored It's that time of year when everywhere we look there seems to be new life. It's something I'm sure none of us gets sick of seeing. Back along I shared a photo of a newborn goat still attached to it's Mum, I'm sure that goat is twice the size by now. These baby goats are a bit older and ... [ Read More ]
Slow Cooker Chicken, Egg And Lemon Soup (Greek-Style)
Slow Cooker Chicken, Egg And Lemon Soup (Greek-Style) I'm a huge fan of the slow cooker. Food preparation may not always be quicker, but just the sheer convenience of being able to sling ingredients into a slow cooker and forget about it suits me down to a tee. And nothing beats the feeling of ... [ Read More ]