Taking the plunge ..

I'm moving to France!..

How's that for the start of a blog? You may have already read that my partner and I bought a gite over there, and we now aim to move out full time later on this year. The gite's called La Galerie, and we already have six bookings for it - not bad from a standing start! In addition, I'm going to be running One-Day Photography Workshops for our guests, and I already have two people booked on that too, so I'm going to have to go to France just to do it. Any excuse, eh? .. 

Exciting, or what? It's a whole new change of direction for us both, and we cannot wait! In the meantime, I have a summer full of Weddings to shoot, and then my focus will be on getting bookings for Weddings and property in France ..

So, if you fancy a great holiday in France, with a day's professional photography tuition, then please get in touch. We'd be delighted to see you. Ooh la la ..

Stuck in the middle ..

  

You're kidding? No, it's true folks and I'm sorry, but you're going to have to start using the inside lane on the motorway again! Oh, I know it goes against all your macho 4x4 bullshit - the slow lane is for losers, and all that - and I know you feel safest doing 60 in the middle lane, white knuckles aglow whilst all that nasty traffic has to go all the way around you - and I know it saves you all that pointless indicating and using both hands to drive when you're in the middle of a terribly important phone-call - but PULL OVER you tit, and let's get back to three-lane motorways again!! Ah, that's better! Yep, I'm delighted to hear of the government's new ruling over fines for middle-lane hoggers. Imagine a whole third of our motorways being brought back into use! I just hope this legislation's a little more succesful than their laws about mobile-phone use in a car! Today's photo from my archive, by the way, is the old M63 junction at Eccles. Just look at all that space!..

Funny old week, this! I had a Shoot 'n Tutor workshop postponed on Sunday as the chap had to stay home for a workman, and yesterday I had a child portrait shoot put on hold due to the kid having a cold. Now, because my contact is busy, I've got to wait another week to do a recce on a pr shoot I've been booked for involving 200 people and a cherry-picker! I'm also still waiting to hear a decision on some Big News for my business! I just can't get going this week. I'm just so just stuck in the middle..

# middlelane

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