Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween 👻

This is Tedster and I dressed to party but with nowhere to go this year :-( Normally we'd have been at the Texas Moon CMC celebrating Halloween, but this year, along with EVERYTHING else, the club is cancelled, has been since March. So thought I'd dig out the costume, a black pop-up backdrop and my trusty 77D and take a few selfies. Thought this one came out rather well. Tedster is sporting his pumpkin outfit and mine is a well used witches dress, the hat and glove bought on one of my many Halloween shopping trips.

I love Halloween, gutted that there's no celebrations to be had this year, goodness knows we could do with something to look forward to what with all this Covid-19 shite, on the potential verge of another lockdown (unfair as we're doing OK in the South East) and shitty weather. Pity we can't just hibernate until the spring!
 

More Drips...

Now I finally figured out how to switch my flash into wireless mode I thought I would have another stab at the drip photography - with a few tweaks to make the setup easier. This time I used a smaller bag for the water and suspended it from the center column hook of a tripod - thanks Dad for the idea ;-)

Even though I still got far more misses than hits, I did get a couple like this, a type of corona I think it's called of the drip hitting the water in the tray below. Very happy with this. Used the Tungsten WB setting to get a blue tone to the image, slight edit and crop in LR.
 

That Time Again!

 

Regardless of what this Christmas will bring with Covid-19 still lurking around, some things are a given - and one of them is card writing. Not always a favourite thing of mine but it does signify the start of the festive season. Wouldn't normally be writing them quite this early but as already mentioned Covid-19 may well have an impact on the delivery of said cards plus I suspect, like me, many will be Christmas shopping online this year. So thought I would write them out, get them labelled up and just waiting for Julia to drop off the stamps. To make the task easier I always print a list and address labels, all I have to do is write in the card. 

Wondered what an ex-work colleague will do this year for the "This is What We Did This Year" A4 sheet they normally send out with their cards - pretty sure this year it'll be blank 🤣

Not sure this year's album will be burgeoning with photo entries, especially as all the precursor events have been binned off thanks to the plethora of panic over this virus. I can see 2020 quietly slipping out the back door come the New Year and whilst I'm sure it won't be quite over in the early part of next year, I cannot wait to see the back of this year. 

Jigsaw Puzzle!

Completed my first jigsaw puzzle in decades! I won't divulge how long it took, its embarrassing! My neighbour lent me it along with a second 500 piece puzzle. I'd purchased two 1000 piece ones from the MFPA, back when Lockdown started as they were in a sale and I stupidly thought they would keep me busy. Now puzzles such as these have never been a favourite of mine, even as a child. But I thought I might find them useful. I didn't even manage to complete the outside of one of the 1000 piece puzzles before throwing in the towel and chastising myself for having wasted an afternoon. I gave the puzzles to my neighbour as she's keen on doing them and she passed these two over as they are smaller and better defined pictures. Even then I struggled, a lot, if nothing else to find the room to lay all the middle pieces out. Still I'm pleased that I kept going with it, I did contemplate giving up initially, but thought I should persevere. 

And there you have the finished article. All that's left is to return it to its box 🤣

Annie's 3rd Birthday!!!

 

Here's the birthday girl - Annie, 3years old today! It's been amazeballs to be able to celebrate her birthday here in the family. When she came to us as a guide dog boarder in March 2019 her birthday had already passed and she went back into the guide dog system before her birthday came around again. So this year has been lots of celebrations, snuggles and TREATS!

Think she wasn't too keen on wearing the hat but kept her bandana on pretty much all day which earnt her more treats when she went shopping with Julia & James.

Here's to many more good birthdays with this amazeballs Furbaby 💖