Tomorrow Adderbury's St. Mary's Church hosts their Christmas Market from 11 - 4pm and its an absolutely smashing affair. Wonderful stalls selling wonderful items of all kinds, the WI selling members' homemade food plus coffee and eats and lunch food too.
As Christmas events go, its definitely not an Event to miss.
Watch this space for photos!
Also tomorrow, Deddington Farmers' Market is open for its monthly sales of glorious local food, masses of variety and the Craft Fair in the Church. Two splendid happenings in one most attractive village.
The next meeting is on Saturday 17th December, just in time for Christmas and I freely urge you to attend if you're in Oxfordshire.
In Banbury, our first ever Apples for Eggs event for which I have a ticket...and I'm hoping to be able to get there with some chutney etc.
Also of course, this weekend its the last GP of the season at Abu Dhabi and the dear SO will be glued to whatever medium he might watch the proceedings on,,,,hehehe
Have a brilliant weekend everybody
Daisy xxx
Friday, 27 November 2015
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
Getting into go again at JS Auctions Bodicote, Oxfordshire Friday, 20th November 2015
Back home again and getting going with events and occasions so here we are at JS Auctions Bodicote - www.jsauctions.co.uk - for another fine auction sale and after a busy day we've come to take a few photos
on Friday evening on viewing day after which I'll upload and write a Catch Up post tomorrow morning with a few
future dates.
Well that didn't quite happen as anticipated because at home time had to be given over to finding a lost docuent which should have been in a handy desk tray and well, it wasn't.
So on Saturday morning I was still searching and then, still not finding my document, I had to get out to my veg.
garden for a continuation of clear-up. tidy-up duties. It is wonderful to garden the whole sumer thru.' but there comes an end date when exhausted plants and greenery smply
have to be cleared away and the ground left in a good condition for the winter months. So that was the rest of my Saturday time used up in the garden.
Coming home for a change out of wet clothing and to go out walking down to the town for some items and to
notch up some of my daily 10,000 steps which, unfortunately, I didn't quite do but enough to make a good dent
and feel pleased. Work, even gardening, is just a good work-out and exercise like brisk walking is what you need to do on top of your regular or weekend activities.
On Sunday I'm lunching with my family and taking some Christmas presents too just because I can whic
makes every one laugh - for once I'm much too early - and we'll all meet up again on Christmas eve which
is brilliant. Here's a family photo...
Sunday evening I'; be glued to our TV for Monty Don's wonderful new programme series - The Secret History of British Gardens. Tonight he is telling us about 18th
century garden Croome Court and the wonderful Chatsworth garden and the work of three individual gardeners
William Dent, Lanceclot Capability Brown and Henry Repton. A DVD of the programme is to come out on 7th December and perfect for a brilliant Christmas present.
Finally on Monday morning I found my missing document and dealt with it immediately which was a huge relief.
Sunday was, as you know, Stir Up Sunday with the text "Stir up the souls of the people" and lovingly referred to a Christmas pudding Stir up Sunday and, in past years
I would have been busy mixing my fruit mixtures, turning it into greased bowls for steaming, getting them cooked in the following week. Not this year again and not
for a long time but oh \I do wish I had been making my puddings. The dear Man 's family group are not really into Christmas pudding thus now I normally buy one
from Marks and Spencer but I do make my own rum butter for that is an absolute favourite of mine.
We were at Wakehurst Place during my week away and here's a photo or two just to show how glorious a venue
it is to visit - Wakehurst Place - Kew Gardens in the country...
Did you see my post on photograph, I do hope so !
Toodle loo
Daisy xxx
on Friday evening on viewing day after which I'll upload and write a Catch Up post tomorrow morning with a few
future dates.
Well that didn't quite happen as anticipated because at home time had to be given over to finding a lost docuent which should have been in a handy desk tray and well, it wasn't.
So on Saturday morning I was still searching and then, still not finding my document, I had to get out to my veg.
garden for a continuation of clear-up. tidy-up duties. It is wonderful to garden the whole sumer thru.' but there comes an end date when exhausted plants and greenery smply
have to be cleared away and the ground left in a good condition for the winter months. So that was the rest of my Saturday time used up in the garden.
Coming home for a change out of wet clothing and to go out walking down to the town for some items and to
notch up some of my daily 10,000 steps which, unfortunately, I didn't quite do but enough to make a good dent
and feel pleased. Work, even gardening, is just a good work-out and exercise like brisk walking is what you need to do on top of your regular or weekend activities.
On Sunday I'm lunching with my family and taking some Christmas presents too just because I can whic
makes every one laugh - for once I'm much too early - and we'll all meet up again on Christmas eve which
is brilliant. Here's a family photo...
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| my two brilliant great-nieces home from uni, for the weekend with my niece |
Sunday evening I'; be glued to our TV for Monty Don's wonderful new programme series - The Secret History of British Gardens. Tonight he is telling us about 18th
century garden Croome Court and the wonderful Chatsworth garden and the work of three individual gardeners
William Dent, Lanceclot Capability Brown and Henry Repton. A DVD of the programme is to come out on 7th December and perfect for a brilliant Christmas present.
Finally on Monday morning I found my missing document and dealt with it immediately which was a huge relief.
Sunday was, as you know, Stir Up Sunday with the text "Stir up the souls of the people" and lovingly referred to a Christmas pudding Stir up Sunday and, in past years
I would have been busy mixing my fruit mixtures, turning it into greased bowls for steaming, getting them cooked in the following week. Not this year again and not
for a long time but oh \I do wish I had been making my puddings. The dear Man 's family group are not really into Christmas pudding thus now I normally buy one
from Marks and Spencer but I do make my own rum butter for that is an absolute favourite of mine.
We were at Wakehurst Place during my week away and here's a photo or two just to show how glorious a venue
it is to visit - Wakehurst Place - Kew Gardens in the country...
Did you see my post on photograph, I do hope so !
Toodle loo
Daisy xxx
Monday, 16 November 2015
Adderbury Community Food Market - Thursday, 12th November 2015 - for Supper and delicious food to buy...
Well we grabbed supper immediately and sat down with friend Gillian for a good natter over lovely hot food, take photos and applaud Market Management as they gave awards to four worthy Adderbury institutions through their being a non-profit-making organisation. Lots of applause and photos all round........
Then we were off to loiter over the food stalls, find free nibbles to munch on and grab a few goodies to take home, which we duly did.
Here's a few photos of the stallholders and their wares...
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| Goodies from Once Bitten by Jo Thompson |
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| Patisserie from Coteswold Baking |
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| Homemade in Oxfordshire by Maggie |
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| Moore and Lyon for free-range eggs and chickens |
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| Mark at Ellie's Kitchen for glorious Greek foods |
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| Bouche Bakehouse delights |
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| Gift Bags by Maggie of Homemade in Oxfordshire |
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Monsoon Estates Coffee, Chocolate Cake from Ellie's Kitchen, veggies from Mr. Anson. Cristrmas Chutney from Maggie's Homemade in Oxford and Bouche Bakehouse doughnut |
Happy shopping...
Daisy xxx
Sunday, 15 November 2015
The Art of the Photograph 5 - My life in Photos - Sunday 15th November 2015
Events & Happening v Family Occasions
Daisy xxx
I’m very quickly discovering there’s a whole world of difference
between snapping away at your holiday views for home consumption and taking
photographs of meetings and important social functions involving a wide variety
of others.
The most important difference to take-on-board is people’s
concerns, their needs and requirements and your artistic take on the event
you’re attempting to frame successfully. Taking photos of an independent
external event, as opposed to trying to capture one’s own family event, is as different as chalk and cheese
Many people do not like to be photographed. You simply have to respect their feelings and
avoid capturing them altogether or attempt to photo around them, missing faces
but capturing their presence in sympathetic poses.
Group shots are good when you have chosen an interesting angle and when they present a
combined view of joint activity, shared enjoyment and group participation. Such takes present the spirit of the event
and capture the feel of the moment and this is what is required by the
participants of the occasion. It’s that
essence of a happy moment, captured in a frame, to hold and cherish for a
remembrance of a special day or particular moment in time.
Of course, the photographer also has to cope with their own
emotional needs with respect to the event, the essential photo-shot required
and that attachment you hold towards the participants you’re endeavouring to
capture. Whilst appreciating their
needs, you’re attempting to capture a story in a scene and you want to create
an image that will convey the spirit of the occasion. You need to connect with those around you,
empathise with their presence and portray their involvement.
Still-life objects remain in situ while you motivate
yourself to get that “good” shot; people like to move, make hand gestures to
add emphasis to their presence or conversation, are interrupted by others and
small children or simply melt into the background while you attempt to frame
them sympathetically. All the while you,
the camera nuisance, continues to view the encircling movement for the next
shot, a better take on the children playing in the garden setting, the friends’
group and the farewell-parting shot.
Plus, even if your human prop wants to be "snapped" your need for speed is essential for the sitter will shy away the instant the ordeal is over; for that's what it is, truly, for too many folk. An ordeal for the visage, the hair, the smile - whatever really. For the inner anguish of doubt and misconception is onlu too real for some people who may entirely refuse the lure and fantasy of the captured image, seeing that not-so-brilliant smile or lthe imperfect nose a blemish when, in reality, they are features to be known and loved by others as a family trait or a personal facet just belonging to one special person.
Plus, even if your human prop wants to be "snapped" your need for speed is essential for the sitter will shy away the instant the ordeal is over; for that's what it is, truly, for too many folk. An ordeal for the visage, the hair, the smile - whatever really. For the inner anguish of doubt and misconception is onlu too real for some people who may entirely refuse the lure and fantasy of the captured image, seeing that not-so-brilliant smile or lthe imperfect nose a blemish when, in reality, they are features to be known and loved by others as a family trait or a personal facet just belonging to one special person.
To be involved yet detached but still remain connected to
the occasion is exacting as you grapple with your equipment, focus your
attention and keep your wits about you, remembering what you require from the
occasion, and deliver that good presentation, is a further refinement of the
art of the photograph….and the work of the photographer to produce it, if she
can!
Thank goodness one can now take masses of takes, find the
best one or two and cheerfully discard the rest! Now I'd love to include a choice group of photos, as I normally do but I simply can't make up my mind which ones to pick. Normal service will be resumed as soon as sometime soon!!!
Friday, 23 October 2015
Adderbury Community Food Market - Thursday, 8th October 2015 - and our prize-winning supper to claim...
And we’re off to Adderbury Community Food Market as it’s the
second Thursday of the month and a busy day leads us on to an exciting evening,
for we’re not just having supper with
friends, taking photos and chatting to everyone as we try and buy….oh no, no
no!
With most of the regular Market team away, we were also helping to set-up the
market itself and then being let loose on the market floor behind the bread
stall of Cornfield Bakery in charge of sales for the evening. And what fun we had
We were second only to Cornfield Bakery getting into The
Institute that evening to get out the long tables for stalls and, busying
ourselves thus, I did not see how very quickly others turned up to organise the
table and stall set-up, when stallholders themselves got to work on their stalls
and their display.
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| Team Market stars Gill and Vicky. |
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| stall prep. |
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| Me with Jo Thompson of Once Bitten... |
Very quickly the
Market came into being, stallholders were in charge and raring to go and the
Ladies of Smart Cookies were settled into the kitchen busy with their supper arrangements as the
first market visitors poured into The Institute.
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| Smart Cookies at home in the kitchen.... |
I very quickly took my place behind the golden crust shapes
before me and felt at home. Bread is
such a comfort food, an enhancer of life, a glorious filler-up for an empty
vessel and a delicious accompaniment to a bowl of steamily seductive soup or a
rich and deeply glossy casserole. And
toast……oh the agonies of delight of that particular food-thrill!!
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| September Market bread buy... |
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| Cornfield Bakery Cottage style |
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| Gluten-free bread by Cornfield Bakery - my particular favourite |
Well the bread “flew-off the shelves” to quote a much-used
modern shopping phrase. Our table was
depleted, only three loaves left to sell and the hour was still young. It was time for supper, time for my sale companions
to man the stall and time for chatter.....
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| the last bread sales.... |
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| friendly market chatter... |
I made for the gallery with my prize-win plate of hot
Spanish Chicken and Chorizo and happy family chit-chat.
A very good end to an excellent day….with photos taken by the dear SO
for somehow I’d forgotten iPhone and camera which to me is akin to forgetting keys, cards and water.
Well, it happens, hey ho!
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| Paddy's coffee stall and the Meat Joint folk |
Wednesday, 21 October 2015
Fine Art Auction Sale Preview Wednesday, 21st October 2015 - for JS Auction House - Saturday 24th October 2015
Well hi there, I was shutting down for the holidays as you know, not thinking to write another word on The View From Here before-hand, when we decided to go to a private viewing tonight for JS Auctions Fine Art Sale for this weekend - Saturday 24th October beginning at 9am at their Bodicote Auction House, Oxford Road, Bodicote, OX15 4AQ - T/phone 01295 272488 and contact via - enquiries@jsauctions.co.uk Or see their Face Book Page at - https://www.facebook/pages/JS-AUCTIONS/106023739428353....
Well, there were so many very want-able, must-have collectibles and must buys I decided I simply must Post some of my photos to show you what you might be missing by not being there on Saturday. I'm also giving contact details and Face Book details just in case some beautiful object, item of furniture, jewellery etc. might spark an interest causing you to need such info. to enable you to get in touch immediately with a bid! Well, you never know...hehehe !!!
So here goes with my collection of perhaps not outstanding photos but I guarantee they're a good representation of the lovely things I saw tonight at JS Auctions private viewing...
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We viewed with family and friends and enjoyed the view....as I hope you will too - thru' my keenly trained view finder.....
Enjoy your weekend everybody!
Daisy xxx
Well, there were so many very want-able, must-have collectibles and must buys I decided I simply must Post some of my photos to show you what you might be missing by not being there on Saturday. I'm also giving contact details and Face Book details just in case some beautiful object, item of furniture, jewellery etc. might spark an interest causing you to need such info. to enable you to get in touch immediately with a bid! Well, you never know...hehehe !!!
So here goes with my collection of perhaps not outstanding photos but I guarantee they're a good representation of the lovely things I saw tonight at JS Auctions private viewing...
.We viewed with family and friends and enjoyed the view....as I hope you will too - thru' my keenly trained view finder.....
Enjoy your weekend everybody!
Daisy xxx
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