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Engagement shoot
It was a beautiful hot late summers day in September when my daughter invited me for afternoon tea to my favourite place in the world. The Orchard, Grantchester.I knew that her boyfriend was going to...
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Moo cards
I finally crossed something of my to do list. It's been the top of my list for months, but I have been so busy I haven't had the time to do it.I had read lots of great things about Moo business cards....
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Autumn colour
The light is slowly going. In fact this week, it has been non existent due to fog. I have already had to cancel one shoot because of the lack of it. The clocks are changing this weekend and I will...
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Dog gone easy:North Herts Portrait Photographer
I've had a manic month so far. Lot's of shoots, a trip to India and a cold/cough bug I just can't shake off.Before I hit you with my India trip photos and commentary overload. I thought I would share...
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A test run :North Herts Portrait Photographer
Ignore if possible.This is just a test run blog. I am still trying to get to grips with blogging from a Mac.My favourite blog writing platform is only usable on a Windows computer. Live Writer used to...
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I've heard the buzz recently on blogs, that scrapbooking is dead. hereFor me it certainly has been dormant for a while. To begin with I had thought it was because of the pain from a spine problem I...
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Merry Christmas
This Christmas and New Year I will partying in Dubai, visting my son.We are having our Christmas dinner at home early this weekend. My favourite thing to do is the organisation for a big meal and it's...
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Happy New Year
I am currently on holiday visiting my son in Dubai. We had visited the City in 2006 and swore we wouldn't be back. But now that our son now lives here, we thought we'd give it another chance.We cannot...
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A snow day : North Herts Portrait Photographer
We have had some beautiful fluffy, dry snow fall over the last week. In the UK that means the Country can come to a standstill. But this time the local councils seemed to listen to the forecast, and...
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Dubai Christmas 2012 : North Herts Photographer
I recently spent three days watching a live workshop on the next step coming in photography, video. Sue and Hayley were showing us how to make short, snappy videos.. Our homework is to put together a...
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India 2012
It has taken me forever to get around to writing about our recent travels in India. I think because I knew it could be an epic post. I had been putting it off.It was so long ago that I shared this post...
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Engagement shoot : North Herts Portrait Photographer
I bought my daughter a lovely engraved silver frame as a Christmas present. It was engraved with her and her fiancés names and the date they got engaged. But I realised we hadn't taken any photos to...
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Animated Gifs : North Herts Portrait Photographer
I just had a play with making animated Gifs in Photoshop.I had to look through my photos for some that would work as a sequence.Here are a few I played with.I couldn't resist using these shots from...
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Super easy, nutty granola : North Herts Portrait photographer
As anyone who knows me, I don't eat healthily. About as healthy as I get is eating an oat granola for breakfast. Mind you, as I understand it, Granola often has more sugar than a can of Coke.But it's...
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Theatrical Head shots : North Herts Photographer.
My latest shoot was held on a cold, snowy Sunday. They were all taken using just natural light, with various backdrops on a stand in front of my huge bank of windows in one of my sitting rooms.Phoebe...
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Other things on my mind.
Hi, long time no chat. I have a major excuse why I haven't be blogging. I have a brain tumour !!! Yep, you read that right. It was a shock to me as well. But really I am just using it as an excuse to...
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The big polo mint - MRI scanner
It's funny what goes through your head when your stuck for hours on end in a tube with your head clamped down.My immediate pondering are how much bloody longer. I wasn't even expecting an MRI on the...
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Being diagnosed with a brain tumour
When you go to see a consultant due to neck pain and come out with an inoperable brain tumour it can understandably be a shock to the system. And I really do mean system. I am a great coper with...
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Foramen Magnum Meningioma or Bert for short.
Of course Bert isn't an official medical name for a brain tumour. I decided within days of being told that I now had an uncertain future, that I would give my tumour a name seeings it looks like Bert...
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My new normal- living with a brain tumour
I still find it very funny that for years, I have lived with family members believing they have a brain tumour. I suffered for over 15 years with severe migraines. Although mine had there own weird...
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The Importance of a second opinion.
I am sure when people are told by an eminent neurosurgeon that they have a tricky brain tumour which they haven't seen many of in their 20+ years of practice, they'd be worried. And so you should be....
View ArticleThe day is approaching
Just a quick post, to say I am going in to hospital in London today, for my surgery journey to begin tomorrow. So I may not be posting for a while. Xxx thanks for reading my blog posts in the past x
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Rejoice
Well, it's finally 2014. At last. Hopefully, it will be better than 2013 turned out for me. At my diagnosis appointment. I laughed with the neurosurgeon when I realised it was the 13th August, 2013. He...
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I'm back !
Hopefully, I'll be back to my old self soon. If anyone knows of a good blogging app for the iPad, please let me know. The one I use doesn't allow me to change the size of my photos or add links to the...
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Pom love
A year on from my brain surgery, and everything is amazing.I am always super chilled now. My brain has definetly slowed down. I can sleep now like a normal person. I had no idea that I had a brain...
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