365/276-7 Still Life - above & below

 Still life.. well I referred to the folders and this is the nearest I can offer. It features a gorgeous cup and saucer and sunglasses with my book of the week on holiday a couple of years ago.. it was a ten day trip with Col on my own, our kind of honeymoon many years late and my 50th rolled into one!

It's funny how that as the evenings pull in and it gets cooler and damper I am thinking about holidays. For years we never managed holidays but after 2004 when we took all five of the kids on a holiday of a lifetime, a sunny warm fortnight has been one of the highlights of our year.. well, to be fair, the highlight of our 18 months!  It was great to take them all and now that we go with only maybe the girls or a smaller contingent it is slightly sad to leave some behind... but still, not sad enough to say no!

It was good of everyone to 'vote' for a holiday or a kitchen, but I think the kitchen / extension will win, mainly as Lisa is due to have the baby in January so I wouldn't want to be away from early Dec onwards, and that is when we usually flit away, plus the girls have college / school exams and maybe this year I should let sense prevail, when in the past I have been known not to be too bothered about that old moan from schools about holidays in term time (we always feel like they have the kids all term and if they haven't got it by now, two more weeks of herding and threatened detentions etc isn't likely to make another grade..) 

Also we have had a grim old porch which was once a lean-to extension kitchen but was condemned when we moved here 15 years ago, hence it becoming a damp but useful porch....housing over the years everything from dogs, kittens and shoes to Xmas Tesco shops and all those bits and bobs like lightbulbs and Lego that you just may need next week!

The last year or so have seen our family gatherings grow again and we want a bigger space to have our family evenings and JB wants more space to bake.. oh and I want more sunshine in my kitchen.. I currently live with the lights on andin winter feel quite S.A.D.!!

Talking of which (JB baking that is!) she made a fab gingerbread today.. and has started herself a baking blog, which she tells me I have to nidge her to complete weekly at least. She so wants to bake for a living, but we are just not sure how it will or can manifest itself.. time will tell and in the meantime she will carry on woth photography and graphics and see how it all pans out..

.. and so today's prompt.. above and below.. sticking with some holiday snaps... perfect for an October evening!....I think they just about cover it..xxxxx