Category Archive for 'Blogging'

True story.

I was at University with a set of twins – the boy/girl variety. Two separate eggs, two separate sperm.  Fra. Ter. Nal. This post unearthed a long-forgotten memory from one of my lectures: Lecturer: Oh, wow, you’re twins? Girl Twin: Yes. Lecturer:  So are you identical? (entire lecture theatre full of students chokes back laughter) [...]

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Published! Kinda!

My copy of the Six Word Memoir arrived in the mail this week. Why did I get a copy?  Because I’m one of the “famous & obscure” writers (you can guess which I am.) There I am, at the top of page 216. Yeah, of course I squealed like a girl when I saw it.  [...]

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Where I was…

We over-shot our download allowance so have had to restrict our on-peak internet access in order to avoid the heavy extra fees… so I’m only on line between 9am and 6pm, and for the past couple of days I have been too busy to get online during the day, and more than a couple of [...]

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They’re too old for this.

When your children start getting to that age where you can embarrass them with something as simple as an accidental snort in the queue at the supermarket brought on by the sight of yet another Celebrity Weight Loss story on the cover of a tabloid magazine featuring an air-brushed bikini-wearing just-had-a-baby so-called actress, a snort [...]

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Birthday Girl

Canon 7D with 50mm, shot in Aperture Priority mode at f/1.4, ISO 640, 1/80sec, in a fairly dark restaurant with available light. 50mm f1.4, how do I love thee? Thanks so Sophie for the fabulous Cookie Cake from Cookies By Arrangement!!!

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* UNDER CONSTRUCTION – updated *

The tweaking continues… I have decided not to start a new blog for my photography business.  Instead, I am separating my blog into three parts – eating, shooting and blogging – and making the shooting part my homepage.  When I get my business cards printed I want to be able to put “www.eatshootblog.com” on them [...]

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