SoShowMe Exhibition

Thursday 2nd September:  the private view of SoShowMe, an exhibition curated around the theme of social media and featuring my photography Smash Me And Laugh In My Face, which was one of the finalists from the Flickr group.  As I was only working around the corner that day, I arrived early at the gallery, so was asked if I would give a short video interview to go on the gallery blog.  I hate the way my voice sounds when recorded (I sound so bloody posh!) but other than that it's ok.  I guess fame and fortune are just around the corner for me now then :)

The evening went really well, and thanks so much to all my lovely friends and family who turned up to support me, it was greatly appreciated and lovely to see you all too!

Julian Gajewski's blog post in the show: http://bit.ly/crT8Lu

Video courtesy of The Printspace/YouTube

The exhibited photograph

Smash Me And Laugh In My Face

Paul

Paul & Mark: "my map's better than your map!"

Doug

Double Beer Situation

Dawn and sorry, I'm crap, I've forgotten your name :(

Alistair (my "little" brother)

Dad

Dad, Alistair and Mark

Andre and Maša

My brother

Dad

Alistair

Doug and Andre

Father and Son

My photo in the background, behind the "thumbs up"

Maša

Checking out Andre's latest photos on his iPhone

My Masterpiece and my Friends :))

Erm, don't even ask .....

Me, Andre and Mark

I'm all chuffed, like

New Forest Bank Holiday Weekend

Awoke to a far nicer day (why couldn't the sun have been out more when we had our Sunday cycle?) to discover, oh deep joy, that the three sticking plasters had come off my knee overnight and bloodied the sheets and duvet, so that the bed resembled the scene out of "The Godfather" with the horse's head (except obviously, there was no horse.)  Godsake!  Knee looking beyond repulsive, all yellow and oozy, and hurting like buggery, so  I was whimpering in the shower and wincing as I dressed.  Had to wear yesterday's blood-stained shorts (yes, I know, gross) because they were the only garment I had with me which would not rub fabric on my knee, so just rolled the turn-up over another notch the hide the claret stain ;)

Quiet morning, lots of sitting about with feet up while Mark gave his car the Annual Hoover, then getting ready to go and packing up.  Had cheesecake and coffee in the garden before setting off for Hinton Ampner on our way back home.

Pretty little church in the grounds of Hinton Ampner

Big fish in the pond

"stunning views of the South Downs"

One of Mark's many vintage cameras

Hinton Ampner - a very pretty house

Daisy steps

This topiary must have required some pampering!

Inside the church

Garden greenhouse

The vegetable garden

Pumpkins!

Loved these colours :)