Bon soir a tous!
Long time no write, or add to my blog - lots of time spent in the garden before winter arrives, painting shutters and window frames before winter arrives and just daily living before winter arrives, so I've neglected my blog!
The Tyler household likes to mark family birthdays, so we always have a busy run up to Christmas - tomorrow Christopher's birthday (30th), Friday 23 November will be Harry's 60th birthday, and 8 December will be my 65th - an impossible thought! Poor old Jess with all those birthdays, and her out on a limb in May!
Harry had the idea of doing some kind of short film/video/show for Christopher's birthday and you can see the result at http://www.bricabracabroc.co.uk/Birthday.html
(not available on mobile phones I'm advised).
This involved me, looking through hundreds of photos and digital images, to find favourite photos of Christopher over the years. I then learned the art of scanning, then Harry spending time doing his graphic magic to put them into the show, along with the mad images of us two. Lots of manipulation there! The photo sorting was a nostalgic trip I must say, time-consuming as we have lots and lots of photos and duplicates of photos and even duplicates of duplicates it seems. Still, it was a pleasant trip and has left me with another sort-out project to add to my long 'To do' list.
We would love to have joined Christopher and Jess for a birthday extravaganza to celebrate all the numbers, but big bills are looming for the oil for our heating, new kitchen ceiling (water-leak) and new kitchen (Ikea's best), so the celebration will be delayed until Christmas when we'll all be together here in Chamberet. Harry and I will however be popping a bottle of some kind of fizz tomorrow on the 19th and possibly also on the 23rd and 8th! Well, we do live in the land of champagne so it's readily available here with lots of choice and not too expensive.
So, regards to all - please feel free to send messages via Facebook, email or even Royal Mail - it's great to receive news from home.
(Still trying to work out how to upload images here - might have sorted for next time)
© Marie Tyler, 2012
