100 Seconds to Midnight

Ten days - one dress - several hundred photographs! I've had mixed feelings about the first tenth of my 100 Day Dress Challenge.  For whilst I am loving wearing the dress and subsequent liberation from the ongoing question of "What am I going to wear today?" I'm pretty sure that stressing over the daily photographic evidence was not the intended outcome, and certainly doesn't fit with premise of having more time to do the things you love.  It is, after all, not a photographic competition - but by the time I am a couple of days in, I have a sneaking suspicion that, for me, it might as well be.  And when, on Day 4 I discover that fog is forecast for the following morning and message a friend to ask if she'd be up for a 8.30am woodland photoshoot to catch the atmosphere, I think I'd be hard pushed to convince anyone otherwise. Luckily for me, said friend was indeed prepared to take on the job and off we went into the woods in search of the perfect shot.  Seph...

It's one thing when your friends with whom you believe you share a significant amount in common say they are enjoying your blog, it's quite another when your Heavy Metal loving friend says he's a fan of your writing style and then, just as you're letting that compliment sink in, lays down the gauntlet to blog on his favoured music genre! Not one to turn down a challenge and with the added bonus of seeing how FaceBook ads will deal with what I'm sure they'll regard as a mid-life crisis delve into Death Metal, off I went to research Arch Enemy. Stereotype fools Playing the game Nothing Unique They all look the same We Will Rise - Christopher Amott / Michael Amott No wonder my writing struck a chord! This is everything I was saying last week, just slightly more concisely. Turning to the bio on their website I learn that they attribute their success, over the past twenty or so years, to being impervious to other's rules and expectations, preferrin...