Oliver and Emily - 16 months

How I wish I had been able to take photos of my own littles at this age, aren't they cute? Have photographed Oliver and Emily since they were just a bump so its lovely to record their growing up into toddlers. Darren and Kate got a twin each; Oliver looks just like his dad and Emily just like her mum and they are great fun. Emily says "uh oh" a lot, generally as she is dropping her teddy off the high chair so that Hornby the dog can pinch it before she bursts into tears wanting it back, and once its retrieved she does the whole thing all over again - oh I remember those years! And Oliver is such a boy - remote controls, mobile phones all much more interesting than toys and he loves to climb so Kate and Darren need eyes in the back of their heads!


Emily putting little paper flowers into the bag she made at nursery.


Oliver wondering if he is quick enough to grab the camera.


Bless her about to whizz off on her little bike - she's a speed freak!


Look at those eye lashes!




Love this one.





And the sun shone too!

Hazel O'Connor in Hebden Bridge!

Who ever would have thought it? Hazel O'Connor, of Breaking Glass fame, bold, out there sort of a person that just blew me away with Will You back when I had no idea how all that stuff would feel but really wanted to experience it, would one day be singing Will You live, in front of me, in a room not much bigger than our kitchen. There isn't hyperbole enough. I stood with tears streaming down my face and was moved all over again. Wonderful. And she's such a nice lady, I went to rescue her from Steve, or Steve from himself, whichever way you want to look at it when she was signing cd's and she was very genuine and as Anna said really rather cheery! I just wished I could be trusted to look after my camera after a serious amount of vodka and coke and could have taken some proper pics.




If you get the chance go and see her, the Billie Holliday and Nina Simone covers alone are worth the ticket and the whole blues/jazz thing is just fab. Happy days.

Bradley Woods

After a bit of a grey start the sun came out this morning and Steve and I decided to get out and get some fresh air. Of course by the time we had done all the guest house stuff and the shopping it had gone back to being grey! We decided to go to Bradley Woods, just up the road from home as neither of us fancied driving miles to go for a walk. There is a scout camp in the woods and lots of little scouts were heading home after a weekend in the woods, they looked like they had had a good time! As we were walking the sun came out and we got the chance to take some photos.

I took this one of Steve which is like about 200 others that I insist of taking of him, poor guy!


Then he decided that he needed to take one of me to show of latest haircut! Not a fan of myself in photos but actually rather like this one, had to guess at exposure and then hand him the camera but it seemed to work.


Digby had great fun chasing sticks, but was loathe to hand them back!


Lovely sky


The sun was shining through the trees as we walked back up the hill, it was lovely and much warmer than it has been in ages.



Always good, signs with a sense of humour!

Yay! Spring!

Over use of exclamation marks is mandatory in any post relating to Spring! see!!

The sun has been shining in through the kitchen window and when Digby got fed up of sunbathing right in the middle of the kitchen floor he took up his position at the kitchen table, just in case I got confused and offered him something for lunch I suspect!


To think that even last week these delicate little things had snow on them. Sooooo glad that has gone away!


Seem to remember these featuring in a similar post last year! Which means they are annuals, I think, lovely aren't they? Does you heart good doesnt it and we needed something to cheer us up today.

There goes the view.....

Because there really aren't enough houses in West Yorkshire someone somewhere has come up with the idea of building a 3 bed detached house IN THE GARDEN of the house across the road. The lady who owned the existing lovely family home with large garden, the sort of thing a family would really like, has sold her garden, I didn't even know you could, maybe we could sell the car park and make some money? Anyway a developer has bought her garden and is shoe horning a teeny house into it. So there goes our view, such as it was!



The have been working on the footings for a while, so nothing showing over the wall, last week they put up the scaffolding.




Lovely. Not.

In a week they have whacked up the downstairs and today appeared to be glueing the wooden top floor into place, oh and the roof trusses arrived on a hossing great lorry this morning. Carpet fitters due tomorrow?



If you look really carefully you can see what our view used to look like through their new lounge window! Mind you look at that sky - literally on the 1st of March the weather changed.... leading me nicely into my next post!