21 Jan

The Party Monster

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Sometimes I worry I am starting to get old.. Okay… maybe not sometimes… maybe it is most of the time but that is beside the point… You know what I mean and all that. Once you have kids and they start having a social life that is much more agitated than yours you know you are on the way to your demise…

I mean… not so long ago (over 10 years ago… eeek) I used to be the one that would go out on a Friday Night to go clubbing and not come back home until at least Sunday afternoon after party hopping with some of my best friends. The stuff of my regular points knew me by name it was that bad… Live hard… party harder… and all that. (ROFL)

Hardcore huh?!?! As if… My circle of friends was quite healthy on the things we used to do to have fun… We might have ended up in a beach 800Km from home once but that is beside the point… I am not here to talk about me… I am here to talk about the Big Monkey today.

And Yesterday was SCHOOL DISCO NIGHT!!!

He has been so very excited about that all week long. I had to laugh hard when I picked Lil One out of the childminders and she told me how relieved he was when she confirmed to him (twice) that this weekend was not a daddy weekend because he sooooo wanted to go and was at night etc etc…

School Disco is a serious point. It involves loads of prepping and practising of dance moves (And he told me when I picked him up that he “busted all his moves”. And we got a first view of them before I went out to drop him off at the school gate (I wasn’t allowed to get out of the car this time… As if I was going to embarrass him or anything like that… the cheek!!!!)

And of course… there are the outfits… Which this time around he wasn’t too sure he had the perfect one because, and that is VERY important and relevant: His mum chose it for him. (OUTRAGE!!!)

He wanted to go to the disco wearing a waistcoat, a “Michael Jackson style” hat, fingerless gloves and sun glasses… ROFL!!!! I think I kinda see why Vic vetoed the outfit… I blame it on all the hours we’ve let him watch MTV in his baby chair when he was a baby… What??? We were in Brazil, and Vic missed home, and for a while that was the only TV channel in we had in English… hehehe…

My big boy is growing up… And way too quick as well! I was pondering on that and feeling happy that the other ones will still be a while until the other two start giving their first steps on the having an actual independent and agitated social life until I see THAT crossing in front of the camera to join his brother as he demonstrated his latest dance moves…

Yeah… I forgot Little One already HAS his own amazing little moves… Much like his big brother… He made us laugh sooooo much!! God… I just love those little moments! Gotta enjoy them as much as I can while they last… The are rare and VERY precious these days… I truly wish they could last forever…

…and in a way they will… in my mind… and in my heart…

10 Jan

Mr StickMan Waves Hello #366Project Day 10

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LOL!!!! I am LOVING the way the 366 Project is allowing me to find my creative juices again… Well… I will admit that sometimes I might worry a bit that I am running hopelessly out of ideas for my next photo… Then I see myself playing with a Flashlight and voila! Mr Stickman Says Hello…

Okay… first I tried to write a meaningful message with light shooting at a VERY slow speed… but writing in the air can be VERY complicated… Then I tried to write ONE word… LOVE… Should be easy no??? NOPE… It became a bunch of unintelligible lights in the air… apparently my orthography is just as bad in thin air as it is in a paper… hehehe

So I reverted to the times where I first started drawing… my favourite game was “stickman action” so there you go… StickMan says “Hello”…

That one is special for Big Monkey whom, like me, loves soem stickman action…

Carpe Diem!

03 Jan

Hey Sailor #366Project Day 3

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Today we had Torrential Rains in Kent and combined with the raging and roaring window out there I really thought the house was just going to float away… OK… I am exaggerating it a bit… But it was fierce… And then all of a sudden I see a little path of blue on the sky… and it grows… and the sun comes out to play… So the choice was between staying indoors in front of a computer and going out to play in the sun… There really is no choice there is there???

The house was going to sail away… But instead our intrepid sailors had a bit of a shore leave…

Carpe Diem my friends… Carpe Diem!!!!

27 Dec

The Great 2011 Review…

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In 2011 I have laughed, cried, grown, evolved, made mistakes… and learned from those mistakes, I fell in love… and then found out it wasn’t love, I’ve kissed and broken up (twice), gave up on life and learned to enjoy it again, I remembered and found I was not forgotten, made new friends and renewed old friendships, I’ve been betrayed and I got back on my horse after a long fall.

I became a dad for the 3rd time… and felt closer to my sons than ever. I have missed them and hugged them like I’d never let them go. I longed to hold one of them in special for far too long, and I held him tight when the time came that I could do so again. I’ve had “the talk” about birds and bees learned one thing or two from my sons too.

I have learned that it is better to love and cherish what we have than miss what we have lost.

I have learned that I am awful at being single but have learned to like my own space.

I’ve moved around to different towns and back and forwards in and out of The Attic (twice)…

I have found new things about myself that I could count… And have found out that the more you search the less likely you are to find yourself… funny that, right?!?!?!

I’ve learned I am quite good with ropes… and had a good chance to use all the knots and tricks I’ve learned as a boyscout… And I simply LOVED photographing the results.

I started on with a few projects… most of them were shelved again… there ~~was~~ is just too much going on in my life that I needed to get out of the way before getting them out there… I have sabotaged myself… a lot… But I have decided that 2012 will be a sabotage free year… I am putting my act together and getting my priorities straight…

in 2011 I’ve taken some GREAT photos (not being big headed… just proud of myself) and in 2012 I am planning to take even more of those… As well as making sure I don’t neglect this blog… I’ve got a few plans… and specially if you enjoy photography… well… keep an eye in this space…

Life is just like the song says… “You live… You LEARN…” and in 2011 I have definitely learned… Life goes on! And bring on 2012!!!