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Escape

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Why spend time looking out of a window to see the world? Why not step outside and experience it for yourself?

It is an amazing place, with a whole explosion of wonders to enjoy. So take the first step, and see what life can bring you.

It may not always go to plan, but that’s part of the big adventure. Babies learn by doing things wrong, so try is yourself; let loose your childish side, and see what you can do.

Take the reins on a new life, and share your experiences with others. Not through the rose-tinted world of social media, but by meeting new people, sharing experiences with them, then reporting back on your achievements to your friends and loved ones.

We can become too staid, to set in our ways, hiding behind a comfort zone without risk. Unleash those shackles and set yourself free.

Build new friendships, gain a new sense of self, a new sense of confidence. You are brilliant and the world is yours for the taking!.

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Be Yourself

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The best thing you can be is yourself. You know the experiences you have been through, the loves you have had and lost, the family and friends that surround you and guide you through this thing called life.

There is no point in running to catch up with everyone else. Keeping up with the Jones’ is not the be all and end all. Just because other people have certain thing or life experiences, why does that mean you have to have the same ones? They are not you and you are most definitely not them. Envy is a dangerous thing, so don’t give in to peer pressure; it will being you nothing but grief.

So just be you. Like what you want to like, even if it is not ‘on trend’. Read what you want to read, even if others think reading is boring or a waste of time. Wear what you want to wear; after all, all fashion starts out as not being trendy, so what’s to say what you wear will not be a la mode at some point soon?

By you. That’s all you can possibly be, and it is amazing.

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Billy Warren

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She’d pressured him into it, but he was helpless and he knew it.

The way she moved. The way she smiled at him. The way she brushed against him when nobody was around. The way her breath had tickled his neck as she had leaned in to whisper in his ear…

Focus. He had to focus.

He had to complete the task she had set him, otherwise she would be upset and he wouldn’t get his reward. She’d been dangling that carrot for weeks now. The present she had promised was the one thing Billy Warren had been wanting, been longing for.

He straightened his tie, licked his lips and knocked on the door.

(This is a story based on an anonymous photo found in a junk shop, and should not be seen as a true reflection of this person’s life.)

May’s Mass Observation Project is coming up, so take a photograph based that sums up the theme COLOUR to you, however you want to interpret it.

  • Email the image to adayinphotographs@outlook.com by Thursday 30th April 2020.
  • Images should be a maximum of 650 pixels wide.
  • Include your name, website/blog address and a short note about the image, including where it was taken.
  • Come back and see the results on Sunday 3rd May!
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Mr Green

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Mr Green had worked hard all his life, patiently listening to others and following their orders to the letter, often against his beliefs.

But if his employers had known what he truly believed, what his heart told him, they would have let him go in an instant.

His conscience told him that he was doing what he had to, and, despite the uncomfortable marriage between the two lives he led – his work and private ones – he kept himself to himself, his head down and his employers happy.

The sadness in his eyes sometimes leaked through, though, and his colleagues occasionally noticed But when they mentioned anything he smiled his smile and brushed aside their concerns.

He was happy, and as long as he could keep convincing himself of that, then his life would be peaceful.

(This is a story based on an anonymous photo found in a junk shop, and should not be seen as a true reflection of this person’s life.)

Another quick reminder about the May’s Mass Observation Project!

Take a photograph based that sums up the theme COLOUR to you, however you want to interpret it.

  • Email the image to adayinphotographs@outlook.com by Thursday 30th April 2020.
  • Images should be a maximum of 650 pixels wide.
  • Include your name, website/blog address and a short note about the image, including where it was taken.
  • Come back and see the results on Sunday 3rd May!