Photo a Day Challenge - 6th May - YOU

Me - on my Wedding Day almost 39 years ago.  I kept the wedding dress which was just an "A" line long white dress with flared long sleeves and lots of victorian thick lace and a stand up neck line almost to the chin of Victorian lace.  I bought the dress for £15 in Selfridges, London.

Soon after the wedding I sent the dress to a dye company in London for a colour change to mauve (the lace turned out to a darker mauve) and I wore this dress to all the dinner dances I could up to the mid 1970s - really so that I got my monies worth.  At least my dress was different from everyone else.

Soon after the wedding, I gave away the long veil and headress (artificial lily of the valley) to a young girl who lived up the road from me. She did so want a white wedding but could not afford the outfit, so a friend lent her the dress and the veil and headress from me.

Sadly a few years later I put on weight and I can only recall ever being able to fit into the dress again on one occasion only, but I kept it for the memory anyway, packed carefully in a suitcase in the loft. 

Photo a Day Challenge - 5th May - BIRD

I am never prepared for the next day's photo challenge.  I awoke this morning and saw a huge black and white bird on the lawn - but did I have the camera ready? ....No!  And since most birds are active in the morning - I haven't seen one close enough since.

So.....I went through a big box of photographs - ones that I "inherited", and I found this one of my Nan (mum's mum) taken at Burrinjuck (I presume Burrinjuck Waters State Park in Australia) in 1986.  Here she is with a few parakeets.  Nan would have been in her 80s - she is the one on the left in the maroon anorak.  Always laughed or smiled.......Nan visited Australia many times since my parents immigrated to Australia in the 1950s, this may even been her last visit. 

Photo a Day Challenge - 18th April - Hair

Since this is the road to retirement, then todays photo is about my hair.  I was born with dark hair (of course I can't remember that)!  My two brothers have dark hair, one brother and two sisters have light hair.  My mother had black hair and my father dark brown.  No - my mother never dyed her hair, she had the most amazing black hair when she was young.  Mine was mahogony with a tinge of copper, I just loved to look in the mirror with the sun shining to see these lovely strands, as though I had highlights, but they were completely natural. 

I remember on my 21st Birthday, I had longish hair, which was frizzed up into the air and pinned at the back.  That was "1960s" look!  On my wedding day, I had beautiful ringlets gathered up high and fell to my shoulder - that was the "1970s" look. 

And then the dreaded middle aged loomed and the beautiful copper strands turned to grey - that is the "old age" look!. 

From that day, I decided that I would have my hair cut very short, and I mean short - because when my hair was cut, it is darker (probably dark grey - nobody has told me yet) and as it grows it gets all fluffy and grey and I see these whispy bits sticking out, and I have to return to the hairdresser to be shorn again.

Here is a glimpse of my hair..........you will note "no face", perhaps another time if there is a photo challenge for "wrinkles".

Photo a Day Challenge - Younger me!

Ah....there I am ready for school!  I am five or six years old here. I had my photo taken with my brother, but I don't think he would be happy if I added his photo as well, so I cut him off!