It's 10 days to go until Steve's next hospital assessment. We are in countdown mode, trying to keep ourselves busy and not get too stressed about what we might hear on 15 December. So far, it seems to be working....
After a bit of discussion, arrangements are in place for the Wride family festive gathering before Christmas. Today we posted our Christmas cards and letters to friends living abroad and bought the stamps ready to post the UK cards (yet to be printed, let alone written). Steve has made a wreath for the front door and more cards have arrived for us, so the house is beginning to look festive.
The Christmas decorations have been retrieved from their storage space under the loft eaves (an operation which involves crawling into a very tight space with a torch, so not something I look forward to!). There is a fir tree sitting in the back garden, waiting for when the time feels right to bring it inside and dress it up for the festive season, which we usually do a week or so before Christmas.
The big clear out continues, with yet another trip to the recycling centre - will it never end? Still bit by bit, we are creating more space and getting a bit better organized in the process.
In all this turmoil, photography has taken a back seat these last few weeks. However, I enjoyed trying my hand at studio work for a few hours on Sunday with a lighting and background rig set up in a local hall by one of Oxford Photographic Society members, who was on hand to initiate studio novices into the world of triggers, soft boxes, ring flash, reflectors, diffusers, gels...
And there have been more images accepted in international salons in the UK and France, so I'm a happy bunny.
How shall we distract ourselves tomorrow, I wonder?
After a bit of discussion, arrangements are in place for the Wride family festive gathering before Christmas. Today we posted our Christmas cards and letters to friends living abroad and bought the stamps ready to post the UK cards (yet to be printed, let alone written). Steve has made a wreath for the front door and more cards have arrived for us, so the house is beginning to look festive.
The Christmas decorations have been retrieved from their storage space under the loft eaves (an operation which involves crawling into a very tight space with a torch, so not something I look forward to!). There is a fir tree sitting in the back garden, waiting for when the time feels right to bring it inside and dress it up for the festive season, which we usually do a week or so before Christmas.
The big clear out continues, with yet another trip to the recycling centre - will it never end? Still bit by bit, we are creating more space and getting a bit better organized in the process.
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| OPS studio session |
And there have been more images accepted in international salons in the UK and France, so I'm a happy bunny.
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| OPS studio session |
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