Before the new year closes

A Christmas Carol at the Town Hall

 As I develop and input photos today listening to

Black Keys 'Lonely Boy'

Bored!

I'll drink is ealth, begrudgingly says the Cratchitts

Me one of the ghost of christmas past, taken by DI

Liked the shadows!

Scrooge AKA Chris

Bit of Leicester, visited loads of times throughout December ... developed in lightroom from raw files.. took me ages whilst listening to a track recommended by Yusef.  Cathy Davey ' Neat and clean'

 Rossi's queue, whatever the weather

Playing with my new toy Nikon D7000 now firmly attached to Nikor 35mm lens

Hanging around the clock tower

 I still don't get Ugg's, they look so horrible when they collapse and deform the foot

Hello Glenn,  so very welcome stop at a bar in Leicester and hello Bulgaria

Freeze on the boots

 New landlord at the frog and nightgown.. made very welcome

playing with light and shadows

2 steps to the right

Why,, well if you click on it and enlarge look in the bus and see

Street pastors in multi cultural Leicester complete with occupy

 Maybe she needs sunglasses.. December full glare

Too much fabric!

Town Hall Square ...City Council a very nice effort!

Still working on this end to new year.. and now listening to Bishop Allen's Click Click Click,  apt and recommended by Steve

Back to more Leicester

City Rooms shot.. colour flood was so rich

Do your own thing

 Rossi's again

Listening to Boston 'More than a feeling'
As I still continue to update December

First out of sequence.. so the following is mix of Loughborough and Leicester.
Shot in Loughborough market place on a saturday

Loughborough again... 'No, she screamed, don't take my picture'.  Sorry love but if you will go out shopping in your PJ's you asked for it

 Rossi's again.. so, I have developed a strange leaning towards this little shack, Loving the way that this still draws ice cream buyers

Pleased with the comments from Flickr on this.  It is cluttered however still this great group of people and I still like it

Ways of messaging. Would Lewis Carrol approve?

Back to Loughborough and this guy I have seen around for quite some time, this time when I asked the charity (his open hat on the floor)  he at last answered honestly  'for himself'

Bit of Elvis Costello 'Don't want to go to Chelsea'

and lastly onto New Years Eve.. Mum, Pen and I met Bill, Paula and Tim in London for the day.., booked tickets in advance for 12pm exhibition entry for Grayson Perry's latest 'Tomb of the unknown'

Shot outside the British Museum

 Bill and I went up to the viewing window

The end on the Strand

Early Start

Take a ride on Humilty with Alan Measles.. Hope he is safe, believe he has been to a few states,, make it back Measles you are mine..... Pen bring him back!

Brilliant exibition and must remember CREATIVITY IS OFTEN JUST A MISTAKE

Grayson curated, the show a mx of his own latest pieces including beautifully captioned and illustrated iconic ceramic vases

His centrepiece was a huge coffin ship.. all other pieces gathered from the British all by unknown artists

 

This has been a mammoth task, perseverence to complete continues

Let Thy Feet

Outside the British

 Truffle-gar Square getting ready for the fireworks

So New Years Eve... with Mum and Pen listening to Vinny The Cock

He was truly awful and well deserved of his title ....   what a prat.. .at 12pm instead of letting people count down the New Year ' No, I have to play my next track'  till Emma pulled the plug

Bored...

Strange encounter on the way back

End of,,, 

Time to update

I have not visited shotshack for a little while, time I came back and wrote up on a few things.

Firstly i would like to thank the people who visit my site and looked at my photographs throughout 2011

So without further ado.. a few of things that happened in December..

Might as well start with Christmas

Mum, Pen and I before anyone else arrived ...starting with Proseco

and the tree with heads

Paula and Tim arrived from Cirencester. Pen and I cooked the main,, Paula had made the starter a lovely mint pea soup with cheese scones.  Mum cooked her own vegeterian christmas pudding which is so much nicer than the normal one.  So for the last 2 years her flipping cooker has failed however we knew what to expect and sure enough it cut out ha ha.. luckily we had planned in advance and the turkey was cooked.
Tom arrived with Gemma, Chris, Jakob and Harrison.
Jakob bought his new camera and i hope they still have the ones he took.. as they should be quite amusing.

 Harrison (the beast from the east) as gem calls him

 Taken on Boxing day,, so my photos dont run in sequence.... i must try harder
One of the best taken over christmas,, Tim with Jakob and Millie

and Jakob

going well so far

Paula and Tim found a good utube video that was funny..



whilst Gem and Tom watched something else

 i have no idea what they were watching however it was amusing to them.

Jakob and Paula had to go to 'The Factory' at least 10 times..

 One of Jakob's games,, where everything has to be repeated in the same order.  This is where it starts (in birds house)'The bottle is empty.. OH NO,, it has to be refilled.. so jakob goes up the garden past the shed

places the bottle behind the shed.  Paula HAS to follow.  then they both go back in Bird's house wait maybe 3-5 seconds and Jakob declares that he has to go to the factory as the bottle will be filled up.. and again. again and again.. Paula was extremely patient and played the game till it's end, mercifully Gem called him back inside.
We are a very creative family and have all learnt that stories with Jakob must be able to withstand repetition. Poor mum bitterly regrets the story about jakob on the hobby horse where he fell off and then had to be carried to the sofa and then fixed better (in the correct order by the doctor) only to fall off the damned thing again and again and again. ha ha. (think the horse has been hidden in case the story has to be resurrected as he has an excellent memory.
 

Onto Boxing Day,, which was much the same as before with the lovely addition of Gina, Ricky and Millie down from Essex.