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Awww, I am not going to say it's the thought that counts beccause it's the prezzie as well but you know what I mean, how great that they sorted all that out and planned it. I love hearing about the stuff the three of you do.
The gas thing was one of those back to reality checks, heh heh. Maybe it was designed to stop you singing "Oh what a perfect day!" at the top of your voice.
I had a bath in the end, it wasn't relaxing though as they both kept coming in and disturbing me with questions.
Bubblegum, you take the most amazing photos of your children and they are so photogenic. Do you have a special camera or is it just a phone camera that you use? I wish I could get such good pics of my youngest son.
Abra
Hi Abra! And thanx : )
My camera is a Canon 40D It's sort of a mid-range camera, or it used to be, which you can change the lenses on. It looks like the sort of camera that professional photographers use and maybe some do but more than likley they have a Canon 5d mkiii or something else that costs thousands of pounds : ) The sort of cameras and lenses I go to bed dreaming about.
People have this idea that better cameras take better pictures, but that's not realy true, it helps I suppose but I've seen amazing pictures taken on camera phones.
The best camera for the job is the one you have in your hand, I read that somewhere : )
If you want a quick photography tip that someone once told me and I try to do all the time... it's, stop taking pictures standing up at eye level. Also you dont need to be looking through the view finder, so you dont have to be lying on the floor to take pictures like the one below...
Here is my daughter this afternoon at the play park : )
My daughter is used to posing, she knows that it is a good tool to get my attention when we are out and about... Daddy! Daddy! Take my picture. She is very keen to suggest poses and things for her to do so I can take pictures of her thus getting all my attention : )
I hope I'm not damaging her psycologicaly and that she will end up pole dancing in nightclubs trying to get mens attention.
: )
Strangely, the whole reason we were out down the park today was so that she might see her 'friend' Abraham in the skate/scootter park : )
And he was there along with three of his friends and so I sat with another dad that was there and watched as they all, my daughter included, went back and forth on their scootters up and down ramps defying serios injury.
: )
Your daughter certainly has got the poses down to a fine art!
I love top tips for photography, please keep them coming! My snaps are really uninspired. I went to Paris a few years ago with a friend, her photos were fab (chairs piled up outside a cafe in the early morning, a beautiful wooden doorway, an old man shuffling across the street, Parisien street lamp in the reflection of a puddle etc), mine were her in front of a statue, her by the river etc etc!
Sounds like yesterday was a good day :)
Anna! Yesterday was a good day, today has been a good day, I had fun at work and tomorrow will be a good day as I'm off and can play the guitar all day, or what ever I want actualy : )
Another photography tip I read some place! Stop taking pictures of things and start taking pictures of light : )
As in remember that your camera is just recording light.
: )
Thanks for your tips bubblegum, I'm awful at taking pictures, will have to get the camera out and give it ago.
Enjoy your guitar playing today. Are your children on half term this week?
Half Term is next week here, but I have two days off work, today and tomorrow.
: )
Happy day bubblegum! Guitar and all!
I will endeavour to 'take pictures of light' the next time I am out and about. Does that kind of mean shadows and sunsets? Or am I being particularly dummy like here?
Dramatic light makes for good picture : )
But then sometimes its just the subject matter that counts. Kevin Carter took the picture of a vulture stalking an Ethiopian child, it's a famous picture, technicaly nothing special and yet very powerful.
Kevin Carter killed himself because he couldnt deal with all the things he saw and photographed. He started off taking pictires during the dying days of Apartheid and some say him and his close group of friends helped bring it down by taking pictures and showing the world.
And! No! You are not being a dummy as no one is born with the knowledge to do stuff, we all have to learn and sharing is caring : )
We have been discussing in the office that we would like you to run a photography master class! 
Start a new thread
Take a picture
Tell us how you do it
And then we see if we can come up with something similar?
What do you say?!
OK, maybe : )
I shall have to wait for inspiration though.
I'll think of something for the weekend.
Looking forward to seeing what you come up with Bubblegum 
Fantastic photos Bubblegum.
Glad to know things are good with you, and the children are as great as ever.
Hi Bubblegum,
we are waiting with our cameras at the ready! Or at least our iphones! No pressure.....
Just take pictures chaps!
Never mind wating for people to tell you how good they are or what to do or where you are going wrong. Just look at them and say... hmmm, that's good, or hmmm, that's not so good, maybe I should try something different.
The thing with art, being creative and all that, taking pictures, is that it's for the most part subjective, one man's meat blah blah blah.
What makes good photography, or pictures that people go oh that's good... can be condenced to, from my experience anyway... Black and white, high contrast, unexpected view points and some sort of conection through the camera between the subject and the photographer, I rarely stop to think about it, OK maybe I do sometimes, it's kind of nice when people like my pictures, sometimes I think OK I can see why they like that picture, it's because its a picture of my AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL WELL PARENTED CHILD! (shot with a vaigue understanding of phatography, composition and light)
I may be simplifying it all a bit and there are many many exceptions and theories and view points and you can argue for ever what is art and what is good... but basicaly! It's what ever 'YOU' like!
If you like it, it's good! For you anyway : )
'I don't know anything about art but I know what I like' (a joke and yet very true)
Having said all that I'm going to now go and upload a picture in a thread and get all artie or is that arty? I dunno I can't spell.
: )
Chaps!
I will look forward to having a look at that thread, Bubblegum!
Daughter: Hug me.
Me: No, I might catch something.
Daughter: The only thing you will catch is me.
Made me laugh... Also! The other day.
Me (to my daughter): Oi! Billy no mates!
Daughter: No, Billyett lots of mates.
Maybe you had to be there.
Or possibly blinded by that thing parents have where they see their own children as beyond amazing and all that.
She's a cracker! I think she has your sense of humour bubblegum
Happy Easter chaps!
I'm sat here being handed the half chewed chocolates from a large selection box (Fare Trade of course!) the ones my daughter has tried, not liked and given to me : )
Happy Easter, Bubblegum. Nice pic, shame about the chocs. Which is your worst flavour? Mine is Orange cream.
Hi bubblegum :D
Don't believe we've 'met' properly before, you and your kiddleywinks seem to have oodles of fun- love it!
Well, see you 'round
xXx
Hello : )
I'm not particularly fond of Orange creams either Louise. This box however was a large box of posh sort of CooP Fair trade ones and I dont think there were any Orange cream ones in there, at least I wasn't handed any half eaten ones : )
Oh I love the orange creams and the strawberry ones. Its the turkish delight and coffee ones that don't do it for me :)
Bubblegum, some nice posh chocs, yum.
(note to self..in future send all orange creams to Anna)
When I was a kid my mum, being something of a chocaholic would basicaly devour everything she wanted and leave me my sister and my dad with just the strawbery, orange creams and those solid toffee things.
I never got anything of a look in on anything involving nuts.
Once! my mum and my auntie came to stay with my sister, it was when I was first on my own with the kids, it was also christmas time... after they had gone back home, maybe a day or two later my sister went to get some chocolates from the christmas tins only to find that they (my mum and her sister) had eaten ALL the chocolates and carefully wrapped up small stones in their place and put them back in the tins.
: )
Wow that certainly is chocoholic-ism, Bubblegum. I expect it is funnier now than it was at the time! My mum did not particularly like chocolate in general but she would almost cry if she could not have the nut one, even out of everyone else's Christmas chocs when we were children. I suppose it is the same thing as me having a favourite seat on the settee. When my son brought his girlfriend home to meet me earlier this year, he said "Please can she have a turn in your seat?"
So what is your favourite flavour? (if you got a look-in, heh heh)
Oh I bet your mum and auntie were squealing their heads off in laughter when they were wrapping up stones! Great story!
I like the ones involving nuts Louise. :)
I thought it was amusing Anna, my sister was not so impressed :)
I'm not that fond of the nut ones i think it was because we never got a look in when we were kids as they were my mums favourites, great idea to wrap the stones up (i wonder which one of thems idea it was?) i usually just get a box of empty wrappers left for me!!
How funny that there are so many family stories around chocolates. Bubblegum you will have to put a massive HINT on the fridge door, hoping for "a box of nut chocolates all to myself" for Father's Day.
On the subject of human gannets, my eldest once brought home a huge bag of bagels from M+S where he worked at the time. There were 60. We stuffed them all in the freezer. Over the following week I ate four (one per day for lunch) At the end of the week there were none left. This means that the two boys ate 56 between them. It makes my eyes water to think of it.
Louise! We have no fridge!
I am carbon concious, even if I cant spell it.
We have no car either and ride around on bikes and walk everywhere... my kids hate me : )
But! Mine too can shovel amounts of food down them that would have me crying in a corner vowing not to eat for a month and promising to cycles ten miles every day for that very same month.
It must be all children with those sorts of appetites, then. I sometimes feel my youngest is a human hoover.
I know you often manage some great bargains for your meals when you pop in for your shopping "on the day" so you don't have the need for the fridge. It's great you are so carbon conscious. I hate it when I see people who have had fridges not disposing of them properly.
Washing machines too! I just passed one this morning along with some bin bags, dumped : (
Grrr, that is so annoying!
So bubblegum, you haven't wished us happy birthday, you are one of our oldest longest friends here on One Space! Did you miss all the signs?!
I generaly try to not notice birthdays, especialy my own : )
But happy birthday chaps!
Why do we celebrate birthdays?
I remember when my son was born, as the nurse held him she said happy birthday and it struck me as bizarre at the time because it didn't occure to me that it was his birthday I must have thought, But that's in a years time.
She then said 'he's going to be tall' and I though, how does she know that. But she was right, he is tall, he also has size nine feet and he's eleven : )
And here they are just today, poolside.
It's nice to think I'm one of your oldest and longest friends : )
Yes you are and we are very fond of you bubbs xx
I like celebrating birthdays not just for the fun, but because it is a time when you can look back and see the achievements and huge steps forward that have happened in only 12 months!
Great pic of your lovely babies!
Has anyone seen the film Venuto Al Mondo?
Amazing, I just watched it :-)
I have just had a look on IMDb, I had never heard of it. Wow, it looks very moving, thanks for the recommendation
'Daddy can I have a bra?'
My daughter asked me on Saturday, not sure where it came from, maybe some of her friends have started wearing them, I did ask but got no real answer. So I took her into Llandudno and she chose some, they are like small croped vests realy I suppose but it was what she wanted and she's happy.
: )
Good to hear that she is being forthright and ensuring that you know of her needs! How old is she now, I guess she might be coming up to 9??
Aww, bless her...
She will be Ten in August! How time flies and all that : )
I also got her the book 'The Period Book' I can't remember but it may have been recomended to me on here, she's read that too : )
Gosh 10! You are a great dad bubblegum, high five to you. Conscientious, compassionate and fun too
They made me cry this evening...
But in a nice way, they had both made me valentine day cards during dinner time at school, and got me a small box of chocolate (from change they hadn't given me back) (the buggers) and to top it all off a nice cup of coffee all wating for me when I got back from taking the dog out when we got home from school : )
I love them so much : )
It was all ruined however when I ran myself a bath while prepairing our evening meal so I could soak for half an hour while it cooked... unfortunatly unbeknown to me the gas ran out half way through, so I got undressed and then put my foot into a cold bath...
So dissapointing.
: )