Quick, March ..

March! Quick, it's March again! Get in the garden! Do Spring stuff! Quick!..
(Before the snow comes!!)..

I get such a mental boost to know that Winter has - officially, at least -  finished! Ok, now they're forecasting snow and cold stuff, but it doesn't seem half as bad when the birds are tweeting, the daffs are daffing and the evenings are already light. I'm definitely a warm weather man!

Dare I mention cheese again? Just once more? Because I was down at The Cheese Factory again yesterday to finish off the website photography, and so that's the end of warm fleeces and thick coats as I shot my pictures in their chilly refrigerated work areas! Man, I'll bet those guys are glad of warm Spring weather when they emerge from their Cheddar caves. Anyway, I've already added a shot to my PR web-page. See if you can spot it!

Finally, today's image. Taken from my archive, it shows Army Cadets in Eccles - circa 1976. I remember the Spring of that year very well, as I went with these guys to an Easter camp in Leek! The food they gave us that weekend? I'd have killed for a hunk of cheese!.. 

Back a bit more...

And so we go into the last Tuesday of 'Salford - Down the line', and the mood's definitely getting frisky! I had two lovely moments yesterday .. Firstly, I was asked if I'd give a talk to a camera club in Salford. Me? Talk? About Photography? Just try and stop me! Ha!..

Secondly .. drum roll .. another gallery is interested in showing my work! Hurrah! And this is a proper photographic gallery, too! Hip hip! And they're not even in Manchester! Woo Hoo! They said "This looks like a great project and it is a really lovely series of images. We would definitely be interested in showing these at the gallery" Halle - bloody - lujah!!! What a break-through! I feel so happy! And it's only taken 36 years! Actually, it's even longer than that. I was working on a few 'new' old images yesterday when it dawned on me that some images, for example these from my days in the Army Cadets, are from even further back than '77. I left the cadets in '76, so this shot, and the others I took at the unit, are from when I was actually 15 years old - so from perhaps even 1975! Yoiks! That's almost back to the invention of photography!..