Smile for the camera...

I’m as giddy as a kipper! We have sorted out the wedding photographer! For some reason – for some very strange reason seeing as I am a photographer and know how important it is – we didn’t initially give much thought to wedding photography. (Well only enough to realise that it was hugely expensive!) Anyway, lately we’ve come round to the idea that whilst we would like our friends to take lots of photos and send us copies, there really is no substitute for a proper set of wedding pics. We asked one person and they thought they could do it, we negotiated a price but then it turned out he couldn’t do it after all. But I have now asked a work colleague to do the job and he said yes!

He may not do photography full time but you wouldn’t know it. He is very professional and his photos are stunning. Some of his landscapes are truly breathtaking and his style with ‘people shots’ is flattering and intimate. (As you can tell, I rate him very highly!) Anyway, I didn’t even think of him to start with and then yesterday in an apple falling on your head sort of way, I suddenly thought, what about Robin!? Like I said, he said yes this morning and we’ve agreed a price and we are good to go…

He’s also a genuinely nice man and so will be easy to work with. I think to be a good photographer you have to be able to get people to relax. A tense subject is very difficult to photograph!

We pick up Bess later which is another reason I’m excited.

I slept long and well last night. I was in bed uber early and probably asleep by 8pm. I did wake up a couple of times. Pluto who was lying by the side of the bed, helpfully decided to warn me of some impending doom – right in my ear, at full volume – around 11pm. I had to scrape myself off the ceiling and we never did establish what the problem was. Probably a leaf fell past the window or some such... He got put in the kitchen after that.

I pick up my wedding suit tomorrow which is another reason to cheer – not least because it’s another fat tick on our wedding ‘to do’ list!

Pluto and the vet

Last night I was in bed by 6.30pm and asleep by 8pm. I woke up a couple of times briefly for a drink of water but otherwise didn’t stir till my alarm this morning at 6.30am. It did me the world of good. What with the stress of the house, the job interview and work and having to visit occupational health yesterday, it had literally become too much… nothing dramatic, just a deep need to sleep and rest and forget the last couple of days. I feel positively chipper this morning!

Pluto has been licking his back foot. He’s quite a clean dog so at first we didn’t pay much attention. But then noticed it was becoming more persistent. I had checked his foot over several times, but it didn’t seem painful and there was nothing out of the ordinary that I could see, but this morning I noticed that one of his claws is coming away. Of course, I panicked! I called the vet and was preparing to rush him straight over. But the vet was quite calm and seemed to think that a lack of blood, pain and discomfort makes it a fairly routine thing and we’re actually not seeing the vet until tomorrow. I don’t know what they’ll do – remove the claw possibly? I can’t bear anything being wrong with Mr P. Not least because he can’t actually tell me what the problem is. So I am fretting a little bit and hoping it’s nothing serious…

I have a photo shoot tonight – on Tower Bridge no less, for an LGBT group. Hopefully the sun carries on shining brightly and we have a lovely blue sky background. Nothing finer than the props that nature can provide!