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Since the kidlets have been unable to get to sleep at night after so many Christmas late nights (grrrrrrr!), I decided to take them for a wander in the weather yesterday to tire them out!

The wind had been howling and the rain battering the windows since the early hours but, by the time I dragged them out of bed, it was pretty calm and brightening up.

By lunchtime, the sun was shining so I thought, this will be quite enjoyable - up the Lickey Hills, bracing wind in our hair etc :)

However, as we got into the car to go over to Beacon Hill to embrace the wind, there was a hailstorm! The car was covered in a sheet of little icy balls.

Once we reached the Beacon, the hail stopped - at least until we got out of the car! ;)

It was fab up there! Battered by the wind, belted by hail, leaping a giant puddle to gain access to "the castle" (aside from Enso who was sensibly sporting wellingtons!), watching as the hail storms scattered across the city before us, broken by glimpses of blue sky and pinpoints on sun rays.

We only had one accident - Kizzie (10) slipped over pretty much right away so had a muddy bum!! I managed not to let any of them get blown over the edge!

Ace.

<3 the good old British weather! :)

Managed to take just a couple of photos without my iPhone being killed by the hail!

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Trying to work out how to wear this pressie without looking old / pregnant / dick in general :)

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:57:02 -0800

Trying to work out how to wear this pressie without looking old / pregnant / dick in general :)

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Festive Foliage | Sas Taylor | iPhoneography & Photography

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Neon warning | Sas Taylor | iPhoneography & Photography

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:20:00 -0800

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Multi-storey pigeon loft | Sas Taylor | iPhoneography & Photography

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:06:00 -0800

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Christmas tree finally up. Feeling slightly festive :)

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:46:58 -0800

Christmas tree finally up. Feeling slightly festive :)

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London exhibition of stunning Phoneography images - including one of mine!

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:06:00 -0800

This came as a surprise - I remembered submitting one of my favourite instagram photos (Lonely shopper) to this, but didn't realised it had been chosen to be exhibited!

Pixel This is dedicated to mobile phone photography. 104 stunning images from phoneographers around the world were chosen from over 3000 submissions.

There are also Phoneography images from celebrities Peter Capaldi, Stephen Fry, Ruby Wax and Alexander Siddig.

All the prints will be auctioned this coming Friday (2nd Dec) with all proceeds being donated to the London-based children's charity Kids Company.

If you can make it to the exhibition, it runs until Saturday 3rd December 2011 at The Gallery on the Corner, Battersea Park, London SW8 4BU

If you do make it, could you please take a photo of my photo?! ;D

Creative Hive presents Pixel This

Pixel This Exhibition - metro.co.uk

My photo on the wall - top 2nd from left ;)

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Soooo close?!

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:59:00 -0700

I entered this amazeballs MS Paint drawing in an iwoot competition to win an iPhone two whole years ago - I hadn't seen this blog post before - they actually showed it as one of three of their favourite losers! So close! :O

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