Felt like a change and it turned out blue.
I really like blue – the red was just a bet with myself that I couldn’t do something completely non-blue for a change.
So I did.
Now I get time off for good behavior.
And so we have blue. As an added bonus you get some white too :o)
I cant believe my mum is 50!
I mean, I know I was 30 almost two years ago now, but it just seems kind of weird that my mum has hit the half century.
I think it’s because she’s always been so full of life and fun that she doesn’t seem to have aged to me. I’m aware that I’m getting on a bit, but my mum just seems to have been stuck in a timewarp for the last fifteen years or so, where I’ve always just though of her as “around 40-ish”.
Sadly, being so far away, there wasn’t much we could do for her birthday other than ensure that she got her card on time and some flowers to go along with it. Next month Fliss and I will be up in Scotland for week, so we’ll be able to treat her to something more lavish while we’re there.
And she deserves it too – bringing up me couldn’t have been a walk in the park, it’s amazing that she doesn’t look twice her age! ;o)
Hope you have a great day mum!
Check out this site made by a russian girl who visited the area around the Chernobyl disaster. The pictures on the latter pages are truly chilling – it’s hard to imagine the kind of horror that must have been endured in those nearby settlements as the russian military evacuated people from their homes for ever.
Sadly she appears to have staged a few of the pictures, like the gas mask in the crib, for instance, and the fact that her bike is missing in all the city shots would suggest she might be embelishing her story a little, too.
Regardless of the truth behind her tale, the pictures are pretty impressive by themselves.