Monday, 27 April 2009

"Seventeen Today"

I must have been seventeen in 1959, still at Kings Norton Grammar school.
Somewhere I have one of those long, long photos of the whole school...far too large to frame and hang on the wall. The story goes that if you were on one end and after the camera had moved past...you could run round the back to the other end and appear twice on the same photo. (in the days before all this 'cut & paste')


However the reason for this theme,  is that my old faithful Hazel is seventeen today.
I know the exact day, because I had her as a kitten from a family friend.
She was one of four, her mother being a 'British Cream' and her father a wandering 'Tom'.
Well, I asked her to pose for a Birthday photo....but just as I took it, she decided to find out what the camera smelt like!

4 comments:

Annette said...

Don't they always do that??
I'm sure they know what you are doing.
Lovely photo though.

Bernard said...

Actually....I'm surprised my camera got her in focus....it was on automatic....amazing.

Foody said...

Sweeeeet! Belated Happy Birthday, Hazel.

Bernard said...

Thank you Foodie,
By the way, Hazel's favourite food is chicken! and she had just polished off a Birthday treat.