Sepia Saturday

Determined to post something sepia today, my blogging has really been suffering lately from work /family and other demands..... for the past week I've been on jury service which has been interesting a more than a little surreal - an insight into another world.



And heres another world - the world of my great Uncle Stan, with his brother Roy (who died in the 2nd world war) and various dashing daring friends of the 1920's.

This picture above is Roy, Hedda (I think?) and Stan on the right.


Hedda again, possibly on the left? and Stan is in the middle, Roy on the end with the bottle in his pocket.


and two young ladies, very shockingly attired.....

graffiti monsters

Brick Lane, East London



Invidia, Brick Lane, East London



Greenwich, South London



Pure, Mint Street, South Bank London



Krah, Brick Lane, East London



Sweettoof, Brick Lane East London



Asbo, Brick Lane East London



Hackney, East London



Hackney, East London


Happy Theme Thursday Halloween

Wheels...

....for Theme Thursday












































Plenty of wheels... no time for words
Happy Theme Thursday!

fence

Ipswich, suffolk




school bus stop fence












Nr. Brick Lane, East London



All south London fences, except the ones labelled.
Look here for more Theme Thursday Fences

Beautiful Kerala 2

Backwaters are a particular feature of Kerala - interconnected lakes and rivers, lagoons, inlets, canals... there is a map here.





We had a couple of boat trips around some of these beautiful waters during our visit.



As well as wonderful trees - coconut and banana everywhere - and flowers - pond weed and lotus in the water, orchids on the banks -





there was wildlife everywhere : kingfishers, cormorants and kites, cows and goats wandering around,



beautiful butterflies and dragonflies / damselflies.

And there was also human life by, around, in and on the water.



There are houses along the banks of the various waterways





and the landscape was peacefully busy with colourful washing fluttering and people washing themselves, their clothes



their food



their pots and pans



and generally coming and going around on their everyday business.

TT - news - holidays

Theme Thursday nearly got the better of me this time, I couldn't think of any photos in my archives which would do for "brush", even with my best lateral thinking hat on.

But then I noticed this arrangement in the kitchen.....




So this is today's Theme Thursday photo which is in honour of Anoia - in Terry Pratchett's discworld, the goddess of things that get stuck in kitchen drawers.

Most likely to get stuck - the bottle brushes

plus a pastry brush
plus the washing up brush
plus a paint brush of LG's
plus a dolphin nailbrush in the background. Nose only visible.





I've been a bit incommunicado in the blog world lately, for which apologies again.

I hit the ground running fast last September in a new job, on a year's contract after extricating myself from a nasty and unliveable situation in my previous job - and it feels as though I've hardly slowed pace or stopped since then.

I reached a high point of tension a few weeks back when I had to apply for my job, go through interview, worryworry lack of sleep etcetcetc, but thankfully I got the job.

Accumulated stress built up over quite a long period is seeping out of me, leaving me limp and intermittently vacant.

Last Friday at 5pm I jubilantly set my "out of office" message on my work email.

This Friday - tomorrow! eeeek! - I am off to India for 2 weeks, touring a bit in Kerala with a great friend and a few other people. I'm just, only just, just now, not quite, well almost beginning to believe that this is going to happen.

I'm very excited, and will be back in blogland - with photos no doubt - in a couple of weeks time.


toodle-oo

summer sepia 7

This Saturday's sepia photographs are all pictures of previous Lettuce holidays, which seems appropriate as I'm off on holiday soon.


This photo is one of my favourites, I think because its such a lovely picture of my mother, and her mum - my nan. And it looks properly windswept as English beaches tend to be.
I'm looking quizzical there in the background, and my brother and sister in the front.




This second photo brings back memories of the sand creations my father used to make for us to sit in - cars and boats especially. And I remember that spotty tunic I'm wearing, it was towelling and would have been scratchy with the sand.




And here we are - mid-to-late-60's - with a family we holidayed with frequently. Before the days of factor 50 sun screen for kids I guess, we all look pretty tanned.






happy sepia saturday