I'm taking part in the Kodak Big App Challenge

So the clever people over at Britmums have teamed up with Kodak and come up with a great competition. 


The challenge is to find a photograph that you want displayed BIG. Kodak has created an easy online tool to upload images and then print them out to create big wall-size pictures.


So if you want to take part Click Here and add your linky.


But for now, as I can't pick just one, here are three photo's that I really like.

This is Lola, on a typically British day at Clarach Bay. Discovering the joy of soggy sandcastles.

This is Heather, a year later, with gorgeous sunshine beating down on her at exactly the same beach as Lola, above.


And now for something completely different, as I am posting this on the 5th November here is a picture from last years firework display.

The Gallery - My Secret Places

Tara has set the Gallery challenge once again to find the special places (or Tree's if you are Tara) that make you go ahh... Here are mine.

This is home. This was the view from my window where I grew up. This was taken in a small village called Bayston Hill, near Shrewsbury. The hills in the distance are the Stretton Hills.

This is a view from Albrighton Hall. This is a beautiful old house in the wilds of Shropshire, that you can go to for meals or to get married or whatever really. We (my family) usually go there once a year around the time of my Mum and Dad's wedding anniversary (they are on there 54th year - so every year is a celebration). For some reason, whenever we go the weather is always beautiful. You eat in the gorgeous Georgian (?) interior and then sit outside on the lawn or have a little walk around the lake.

This is the beach at Borth in Wales, near Aberystwyth. My Grannie had a holiday home here when we were really little and I remember playing on this beach. My cousin now has a caravan near there at Clarach Bay (also lovely) and we stay sometimes.

And last but not least - This is the West of Ireland. My in-laws live there. They have a house in the middle of no where - we go across as often as we can afford and it seems to be always a bit sunny, a bit rainy, a bit windy and a bit like this. But it is peaceful and relaxing and and my mother-in-law looks after us all (and there is great light for photo's - which is a bonus).