Railing It

We did a Paris - Amsterdam - Berlin loop with a mid-week stop in a Dutch Centre Parcs just south of Amsterdam.  We knew we had to take it steady with a two year old, so we planned our days around  EAT, SLEEP, PLAY and got on as many boats, bikes and buses as we could.

Read more after the jump if you'd like. (Beware of a bumper photo dump!)

I was trying to think - why so long? - and the only thing I could really come up with was my new lens. I got a wide angle lens back in June and it was as if I couldn't take a decent photo anymore.
Now I'm used to it - and the fact that it's very hard not to photograph surrounding, ever-present mess :) - it's back to normal. (Erratic, but still here.)

Next time photos of a trip that we had thought about here and finally plucked up the courage to do!

 

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Macro in May

Last (last, last) weekend with his Mr Bloom hat.

It was a moving things along weekend - nothing earth-shattering but kind of satisfying. (Btw chicks grow v.fast - this is me trying to creep up on them while they slept.)

This Week

We got chicks! N had four Bluebell chicks for his birthday from Grandma and Grandad. (Bluebells are a hybrid breed (Maran and Rhode Island Red) and we've got four different shades of grey. Can't wait to see how they turn out!) For now though it's 35 degrees for the first week and then 5 degrees less for the next, then pot on, thin out and harden off...or something like that.