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Chris Groucutt

I'm a musician who likes taking photographs. I'm a much better musician than I am a photographer. But... I'm trying... and that's gotta be worth something right?
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367 streak
#295
Day 295
Bowled over
The little'un's school had an inset (teacher training) day today, which meant we had a classic 'Dad and his lass' day. Always love these,...
#294
Day 294
Bats!
The halloween season is almost upon us, and the little'un went out to a spooky disco tonight. So Mrs G went a bit batty with the facepaints. Tur...
#293
Day 293
Peekaboo!
20 days without a cat pic. So here's one of Coco playing peekaboo on my chair. Well, mine when she allows me to use it. Sometimes I get the...
#292
Day 292
Birthday over
Birthday celebrations are over! Back to work. Although the 'back to work' was hampered today by gremlins in the works. (Old software tha...
#291
Day 291
Duck
Continuing my birthday celebrations, Mrs G took me out for a meal this evening to a nice Italian restaurant. Had to get a pic of this array of bo...
#290
Day 290
Happy Birthday to meeeeee...
Another trip round the sun completed. Is it me or do the years seem to speed up as you go? This particular tiny portion o...
#289
Day 289
Long way round
Today I saw a helicopter land in a field not more than 30 foot from where I was standing. Very exciting. I took a few pictures, but it...
#288
Day 288
Shadows on the wall
The little'un made a bunch of paper chains as decorations for her birthday. They're still up and as I haven't had anything else si...
#287
Day 287
Growing up fast
Whoosh... and just like that, in the blink of an eye this beautiful little girl, my niece, has hit the grand old age of four. We had t...
#286
Day 286
Road Trip
Out for the day with Brother Rob, continuing work on some (unpleasant) family business. Not an entirely productive day, but these things hav...
#285
Day 285
Balance
One of the little'un's birthday presents - a foldable, portable balance beam for gym practice has been practically installed in the living roo...
#284
Day 284
Zoom zoom
Eldest had a day off school today, (inset day), so we had a good old lad's day. Watched Batman in the morning... then headed out for a bike...
#283
Day 283
Double Digits
My little girl is growing up. Hit the big 10 today. Double digits. Seems only yesterday we were bringing her back to the house as an ick...
#282
Day 282
Prep
Setting up, getting ready, prep time for my little girl's birfday tomorrow. I think we are there. Probably. Mostly. No doubt we'll be woken by th...
#281
Day 281
Ante up
Mrs G is helping out at a posh do, fundraising for a good (fantastic) cause. So that meant the kids and I had the house to ourselves for the n...
#280
Day 280
Testing
This little photo is partly due to my final and reluctant acceptance that summer is done. The leaves are either brown, or turning, and that 'a...
#279
Day 279
Nom Nom
As a reward for getting out of the 'very unhealthy weight' and into the 'just unhealthy weight' category, Mrs G treated me to a meal out. I am...
#278
Day 278
Incy Wincy
Apparently the weather has done something to the local spiders to make them huge. (Or as Donald Trump would say.. 'Yoooj'). Whatever has ha...
#277
Day 277
SRV
Happy Birthday to the great Stevie today, in my opinion, just about the tastiest guitarist to have ever been. Sadly not with us anymore of course,...
#276
Day 276
H
Out for a little bit of sailing today on a beautiful (surprisingly warm) autumnal day. I have a bunch of sailing photos in the journal, but today's...
#275
Day 275
Over indulged
For some reason I've gone way over my calorie allowance today. That 'some reason' basically boils down to the fact I've eaten too much....
#274
Day 274
Nope. Got nothing.
No ideas. No inspiration. Nuffink. Nowt. There's usually something that catches my eye. Or something interesting that happened. And...
#273
Day 273
Sweet
Gotta love a smarty. (Gently re-introducing chocolate to my palate - starting small... working my way up to milky bars... Yorkies next year.) C...
#272
Day 272
Wherever I lay my cat...
Always on the lookout for somewhere new and interesting to make her bed, eldest cat Coco decided today it would be in the kid...