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Because I like shar­ing pic­tures of squee…

For those that fol­low me on Twit­ter, you may remem­ber me squee­ing recently about hav­ing won a com­pet­i­tion held by Splat­Girl on her blog. The first ever Splat­Girl Cre­ates giveaway was dreamt up in order to give Splat­Girl the chance to test out pro­to­type designs for unique, made-to-order cam­era cases (inten­ded for the pocket/point-and-shoot vari­ety) that would later be on sale in her etsy shop. All you had to do was sub­mit the dimen­sions of your cam­era and then 5 sub­mis­sions were picked at ran­dom later that week to win a free pro­toype each made to fit each individual’s camera.

See more/full-size images in the Photo Set

Mine arrived this morn­ing after an event­ful jour­ney from Min­nesota; it seems Her Majesty’s Rev­enue and Cus­toms fan­cied hav­ing a swift Butcher’s and then taped the box back together using their feet, before send­ing on to good ol’ Ran­dom Mail. Luck­ily, noth­ing was harmed and the con­tents arrived in good con­di­tion, even if the pack­aging was on its last legs by the time it reached me.

The meas­ure­ments were per­fect, the case fits my cam­era like a glove and Lara made a great choice on the fabric(s) (my fave shades of green, plus extra points for slightly “retro” good­ness). I heart it so much I’m on my way now to ask for a match­ing strap to clip onto the little metal loop and another (small) cus­tom order. At this rate, SplatGirl’s going to get sick of hear­ing from me.

The “Show and Tell” con­cludes with this fant­astic photo:

Nanny & Grandad, circa 1954

Last night, Mum brought home this pho­to­graph of my Grand­par­ents that dates some years before they were mar­ried, when they were in their teens. Appar­ently, this photo was taken dur­ing a hol­i­day in Great Yar­mouth, although Nanny can’t remem­ber who actu­ally took the pic­ture. Nanny had been going through her masses of old pho­tos and put­ting together some albums and Mum stumbled upon this one, stuffed in an unmarked envel­ope and just *had* to bring it home and show me. I love look­ing through old pho­to­graphs — even if they’re of people I don’t even know. But, see­ing Nanny and Grandad like this is so amaz­ing. Nanny looks so glam and Grandad is so tall and thin! I never saw Grandad like this; to see pic­tures of him look­ing like “John” as opposed to my beloved, late Grandaddy is both strangely alien and won­der­fully intriguing all at once.

This isn’t so much a photo of my Grand­par­ents, but a pic­ture of the people they were before they were my Grand­par­ents. I feel like I’m look­ing at a photo of people I’ve known all my life and yet all I can see in it are people I’ve never met.