Living

Hoorah! Today the sun shone. And shone. And shone. We tried to rent a car for the day so we could zip into the forest for a walk but all the cars were already fully booked so, undeterred, we set out on foot. Not necessarily to go to the forest, just to get into the sunshine.

We walked all over town: right up past the Grand Place, to the Sablon (and all the lovely chocolate shops. No we did not resist.), then on to the Musées Royaux des Beaux Art, and down again, past the Old England building and the new, fancy-pants Square building. This is where this was taken…

… just before we popped in to have a very brief look at the free Japanese Garden exhibition. Very brief because Amélie was looking very much like she might try to climb some of the exhibits and neither Han not I fancied trying to explain that one away.

In the end, we were out for several hours. So I don’t feel too bad about spending an hour sitting in front of the computer trying to get this to look right. I feel bad, just not too bad. And now I’m going to go and edit my picture of Han and Amélie having a smooch in the sun… I’ll post it later if the computer guilt doesn’t get to me first.

Here it is. It’s not very good. I probably needed a lens with a smaller minimum aperture (I could only go down to 16) and I probably over-exposed but it’s my first time trying something like this. And, hey, Amélie cooperated! Quite the miracle. And now I’m getting up from the computer . And I’m taking Amélie with me (she’s sitting at Hanno’s computer next to me, playing on cbeebies).