Days Like This

We had a bit of fun yesterday when the sun finally came out. On Sunday I had spotted in the paper a selection of photos by Jan Von Holleben. He takes pictures of fairy tale scenes staged around children lying on the ground, like this:

and I wanted to use them as a starting point. But it was Monday morning and I couldn't quite conjure up a fairytale fantasy, so I scaled back my ambitions and asked if anyone was interested in choosing a few objects to represent their week.

Well, we ummed and ahhed and fetched and carried and sorted and arranged; and this is what we came up with:

The poor Accountant has a bad back at the minute. He said getting down onto the floor would be do-able; but he couldn't guarantee to get up again before next Christmas, so we let him shout encouragement from his place of pain instead. I hope he'll be able to join in next time, now that I've learned that lying on the ground makes your hair look strange and your eyes go funny, because it turned out to be a really nice way to record what we are getting up to in a week which is going to go like this:

• Me: lots of knitting for my friend Helen's appeal here; coffee with a friend; birthday cake baking; blogging; trying a new recipe or two; reading a new book; ignoring Horsey; getting up at 2.00am to wave my boy off
• The Tall One: Big week here because he left this morning for a prize trip to Strasbourg (say hello to the European Parliament);  cricket and exam revision when he returns
• The Small One: Birthday anticipation (all week); dancing; revising; reading her new magazine; and going for a milkshake (she hopes).

Something for everyone, then. I hope you've enjoyed it..I've got to run because I've talked about it, photographed it, blogged it. Now, I need to live it.