Wednesday we headed back to the Southbank. The boys saw Captain Flynn and the Pirate Dinosaurs and us girls went to the Hayward Gallery and to Martin Creed’s exhibition What’s the Point of it… V enjoyed it, especially the room filled with balloons. She didn’t enjoy the crumpled paper although agreed that it did get her thinking about what is art.
We also headed to the skate park and spent some time posing around there 🙂
I booked so many things in for this half-term which is just was well because bored mummy + bored children = meltdown. I can organise bits and bobs around a ‘main even’ but I need a daily main event to challenge the excess energy. We started with an Okido workshop which was aimed at children of about C’s age but V enjoyed it too. There’s so much on up at the Southbank this week that I urge you to head up there. Today the boys are off to see one of his favourite books – Captain Flynn and the Pirate Dinosaurs and us girls are going to hit the Hayward and then photograph the skate park (long live the skate park) and the brutalist beauty of it all.
She tried her hand at scratching and despite the nerves and poker face the DJ was very impressed. There aren’t many who’ve played the Royal Festival Hall at 8 years old. Just trying to think of her DJ name…
I needed to check out the light and some ideas for up coming shoots so I put her in a dress and asked her to pose, she wasn’t really into it, wouldn’t brush her hair, moaned about the mirror ball… blah blah blah la musette is a typical model ;). Still, I love the result.
I’ve bitten off another 365… will I manage it? Who knows, the last complete one I did was 2008 and since then the furthest I’ve made it is March. This month I was challenged to shoot only with the Lensbaby… I managed a fair few but I have struggled with a few and resorted to the iPhone and the new glass which arrived last weekend. Most are on Flickr so you can nosey at the detail if you’re bored enough.
my photos a day
I have many obsessions and lots of these are also possessions. Currently I am in love with narwhals, clouds, and Sonny Angels. This means that she is too, he was but has broken the horn off one of the narwhals which means he’s banned from that club. I have a whole wall of cloud photos that I’ve taken on my travels, not nearly enough ‘species’ of clouds though as I need to travel further afield that South East London and maybe even outside of school run hours.
This year we’ll be having lots of adventures and this year will be one of my notable years like the year I went to uni or when I first discovered tweezers (this was a very significant year, I had slugs for eyebrows before this point and I cannot look at photos without cringing & reaching for the salt. I have made a vow to take her to one side with a pink pair of Tweezermans as soon as it’s ‘okay’ although I have no idea when ‘okay’ is. No one tells you those key milestones). So a magnificent year to come and with us already 1/12th of the way in – what has January done to wow me? Rain (but no snow, this is good), I’ve had a haircut (didn’t like it, very sad and on my birthday), a massage (again, birthday treat to make up for dodgy hair), a float (possibly personal highlight of month?), booked two holidays, and a girl dog is in season… so this might be the year we get a hound, names are already decided: Luna (Luna Loo) for a girl Ziggy (Ziggy Pop) for a boy. This may change of course. What else has January thrown at us? An amazing trip to Roma with one of my dearest friends (booked for later this Spring), a wobbly front tooth for the boy and a lot of rain. I’m not mentioning the leaky roof.
things i love
Already we’re 1/12 of the way through the year, the tax return is done and the gluttony of Christmas is almost a distant memory (jeans still tight though). I’ve so many exciting things planed for this year that I could burst and we’ve also got some big hurdles as a family so a year of challenges ahead. I have started a 365 again… I start it every year and fail but this year I’m not going to. I will share them monthly, else we’ll all get bored. In the meantime here’s my musette, growing too fast.
I lost the blog, my fault I know, blah blah blah but I’m actually pleased (now the tears have dried and my knees have recovered from all the foot stamping) because I am taking bull by the horns and starting afresh. I abused the blog before, I didn’t love it, I didn’t really use it and if I did I was very half-hearted about it. No wonder it left me, that’s no way to treat my friend blog, I had no respect! So here we are, new blog new start (I love you blog, promise to look after you this time). I will probably pop some of the old, personal, bits up as I go along but not all and not immediately.
Watch this space.
