As Others See Us?

"honest portraits of people with character"

Nothing useful in the Facebook Archives for today, so I’ve gone back a day or two…

I have very kind friends.

5 July 2016 at 23.34

Back in January I volunteered to model for a photographer doing an exhibition of 'ordinary' people.

This arrived in the post on Monday.  

Still not sure what I think of it.

Tylebach  Absolutely love it!!! 

You little stunner xxx

Mr Minor  I think it is a lovely picture.

Ms BW  It's beautiful.  We were the same year in school Ben.

Fay  I think it's a lovely portrait - stunning! X

Paganess  Beautiful! 

When I did the nude photos of over 50s Kim explained that we see ourselves the otherway round in a mirror to the way a camera records us. Therefore we rarely like photos of ourselves x x x

The Late  Lovely.  Especially in your fancy red hat!

Tylebach Mawr  Ordinary - WTF - you went to Cwmifor CP - nothing ordinary there!!   

I think it is a very good picture - I like it X

Mercy Shipskitchen  You look beautiful Ben.  Your eyes in particular look lovely! xx

Mrs Lasagne  It's lovely Ben , xxxx

Mrs Mobilephone  You look lovely Benxx

Mrs Poet  Austere and warm at the same time, tinged with hraenost and humour.  Beautiful.

The Squireen  Definitely you.  It's good

Mrs Heath  Love it xxx

Ms Delune  Adore it, if I had to think of a title it'd be strength, that shines through.

Mrs Melodeon  Ben, it is a fantastic picture of you.

Mr Mull  That is a wonderful photo of a wonderful model!

Mrs Quilt  Considering the morning you had had it's a brilliant photograph.

McChurch  Trades description act.  When did you get to be "Ordinary"?  Gonnae be watchin ra telly tonite then, Taffy, by the way?

Cousin Daisy  Superb picture.  The real you, beautiful

Mrs Quilt   I'd never noticed your eyes before, what a beautiful blue.

Henlady  Wow, tells a story and not ordinary. xxx

Mrs Jeremy  I love this photo of you! It's definitely a photo of a strong woman. X

Twinny P  I like it

Paddington  Very contemplative. Caption could be "wherefore art thou Romeo"

Mrs Allotment  Lovely, but inappropriate because you Ben are not ordinary but extraordinary x

 

 

see also

https://bentonbag.blogspot.com/2021/01/one-cold-frosty-morning.html

 

 

And We're Back

In fact we’ve been back for over a week but it’s taken that long to recover from being in the Red Zone of the heatwave, catch up with the washing, potting on all the cucurbits and I’ve been generally busy with other things that have come up.

Anyway, back to mining the Archives – in fact some of these go a long way back to my very first Facebook year

6 July 2009 at 12:57

Have just delivered 10 banana boxes full of books left over from Woodlawn Fayre to Amnesty for Books on the West Road, a shop raising funds for Amnesty International.

6 July 2009 at 16:16 

Have just spent over 2 hours cleaning the top of the kitchen cupboards, the wall behind and all the teapots, kettles and containers kept up there - and am feeling very virtuous. 

It's the first time that's been done since I moved here in 1987.  Domestic goddess *

The Squireen  About time too

Ms Exlibris Reminds me of a recent endeavour at my mother’s...

Bentonbag   Tomorrow it's trying to get rid of the boys' wee smell from the downstairs loo ...

6 July 2010 at 08.57

If you're a Virgin broadband customer and you get an email purporting to be from Virgin that says "Hello" rather a proper salutation (eg Dear Fred) then ignore it as it is a phishing email. I've just wasted ages attempting to update settings before 'phoning and speaking to a human who told me this.

6 July 2010 at 15:02

At 9.15 this morning saw a fox run across the road at the Wideopen end of Sandy Lane - probably on its way to the races at Gosforth Park

6 July 2010 at 17:07

I’m having a really good day: a generous gift; a little win; and Fester has asked his GP to arrange for him to go to a sleep clinic about his snoring. YYYEEEESSS

So should I ride my luck and buy a lottery ticket or have my 3 good things happened

StBernard  Buy it!😀

Bentonbag  Did - no joy

6 July 2012 at 13:13

The good news is Thunderthighs goes back to school on Monday.  

His class and 6th form will be at Longbenton Community College, so he'll be able to walk all the way to school.   

The bad news is it's a few hundred yards away from a stream - so watch the weather this weekend!**

The Squireen  It survived last week

*Nothing similar has happened since.

** Thunderthighs’ school was flooded during Thunder Thursday.  

A minor blip compared to everything else that happened during that Annus Horribilis.