Two smiling teenage girls stand on a black gravel landscape with a glacier in the background. On the left the girl wears a Capt America shield tee over a base layer, but is clearly feeling the cold. On the right the girl stands proudly in a down coat and a face hugger tee in the style of Che Guevara. Both are wearing santa hats

With the hot news that there are 18 Thursdays until Xmas, here are my girls at Sólheimajökull! 🎅 Unlike the #lockdownlarks pic, that's not a stuffed hat, that's just the breeze (that's also making her regret no coat!)
#WeekHforHats #AlphabetChallenge #MobilePhotography 📷
#Iceland 🇮🇸 #climatecrisis🌡️

Three smiling women in Harry's, from left to right a navy knitted beanie with multicoloured pompom, but filled with something that makes it stand up on her head instead of drooping back, in the middle a red white and blue jester hat with bells on the end of each of the several 'arms', & on right OP in a tall pink princess cone hat with pink veil from the point

This one is from our #lockdownlarks when the theme was 'biggest hat' 😂
#WeekHforHats #AlphabetChallenge #MobilePhotography 📷

Hehe you're very welcome! If you're interested you can click on the #lockdownlarks hashtag you can see more of the nonsense we got up to, they came in pretty handy when the #AlphabetChallenge was #WeekCforCostume! 😂

6 panel collage L to R 1.bare door: Bethany as Frodo wearing the ring 2. Person under a grey sheet outdoors: Melissa in elven cloak rock disguise 3. Person wrapped in white quilted mattress protector sheet: Jon as shelob's lunch 4. Young woman with long hair tied in top knot and some divided and tied under her chin for a makeshift beard, holding an axe: Very dangerous over short distances 5. Woman with brown curly hair wearing a cloak, bedroll, saucepan, salt box, crop trousers, check shirt, brown waistcoat, holding a dagger and the light of Elendil. She has Sharpie hair drawn on her feet (& it took a long time to get it off!): Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew 6. A gold ring with elvish engraving: one ring to rule them all

I think I've posted it before so you may have already seen it - our #lockdownlarks proved nothing so much as that we have a LOT of random stuff lying about the house and time and imagination to put it together (I say imagination - 2 of our #LOTR efforts were just wrapped in sheets 😂)

Oh Regina, you should have seen my outfit for our #LOTR #lockdownlarks dress up! Let's just say, I mighta had...taters 🤣

A 3 panel collage featuring characters from cult TV show the Mighty Boosh, with inset reference pix for each panel. Top left are Howard Moon and Vince Noir, top right is the moon, and bottom panel is the pink Octopus-like character Tony Harrison, whose catchphrase is 'This is an outrage'

Super grateful to @sheena-mck.bsky.social for the unexpected opportunity to dig out & enjoy again all the dress-up fun we had 🥰 Final offering for
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekCforCostume is very niche but at least there's reference pix, & it was our most popular at the time! #MightyBoosh #lockdownlarks

A 6 panel collage showing charcuterie from Jurassic Park, from top L: lawyer Gennaro cowering in the toilet, John Hammond welcoming his grandkids, Ellie Satler bemused by the veriforman in the 'head turn' moment, Ian Malcolm with his tourniquet leg bandage after his T-rex injury, Ian Malcolm demonstrating chaos theory with water on Ellie's hand in the car, and Ellie exclaiming with relief when she feels Mr Arnold's arm in the power shed

Sauropod Sunday with our #JurassicPark #lockdownlarks 😂🦕🦖
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekCforCostume
#Dinosaurs

A 3 panel collage featuring musicals dress up, the large left panel is Shrek The Musical with Jon dressed as Shrek with a green bucket on his head and me dressed as Puss in Boots with a feathered tricorn hat, cape, boots and sword, the top right panel is a young woman in black gym gear with cat ears and nose make up as Cats, and the bottom right a young woman in black jeans, black leather jacket, sunglass and quiff, stood with one arm upraised, as Grease

Happy #Caturday lovely peeps! Here's our #musicals #lockdownlarks, featuring m'good self as Puss 😺
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekCforCostume

A 4 panel collage showing 4 characters from GTA with an inset reference image. Trevor (unshaven, smoking, denim jacket), a crack dealer (hoodie, baseball cap, jeans, sneakers), Jack Patillo, a famous player known for his hawaiian shirt, and a new female lead (grey leggings, long sleeve black crop top, long straight hair)

#FastAndFurious Friday! Our GTA #lockdownlarks, one of our most popular with our little audience! 🚘🚔 One of YD's pals always called Jon 'Trevor' but it wasn't till we looked up images for this task that we saw fully why (& that it wasn't really a compliment! 🤣)
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekCforCostume

A 6 panel collage showing someone 'invisible' in front of a door, a 'rock' under an elven cloak, a white wrapped body as Shelob's webbed lunch, a dwarf with an axe, Samwise Gamgee with all his hiking accessories, and the One Ring with the elvish writing

No Ents for #ThickTrunkThursday, but at least there's a door for #AdoorableThursday in our Lord of the Rings #lockdownlarks 😂
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekCforCostume #LOTR

(forgot my #lockdownlarks 🤦🏼‍♀️)

A 6 panel collage showing 2 young women dressed and made up as Jack Sparrow, drinking rum, with a jar of sand, looking through two different length telescopes. In the middle panels a man in wet burgundy shirt and black wig is tied to a post in imitation of Will Turner in the hot tub in POTC3, and a woman dressed in deck hand clothes up a ladder moving a long silk woman's period gown with puppet strings in imitation of Elizabeth Swan convincing the sailors to go to Tortuga

Closest I have for #WaterWednesday is the Pirates of the Caribbean! #POTC #lockdownlarks
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekCforCostume

A 5 panel collage showing a family of 4 dressed as characters from the Matrix. Two young women in black with 'guns, lots of guns', the Oracle, and a pilot who gets changed into Agent Smith

#Matrix Monday! This was the first of our #lockdownlarks 😂 #DodgeThis 🔫
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekCforCostume

We dressed up several times during lockdown, pulling themes from a hat, you've already seen some of our #lockdownlarks pix but strap in for a week of more of those 🤣🤣 Thanks Sheena! 👏

Square metal box with blue label saying My Ravensburger Memory (Photobox), on a wooden table, with six of the memory game cards, showing a family of 4 in various costumes, laid out in a row underneath, spelling the word SQUARE

Our personalised Memory Game for some fun #MondayMemories, I had letters added on each pic for extra play value 😂🔠 (Shown are a few of our #LockdownLarks dress ups, and us dressed for the Regency Guinness World Record gathering in Bath 🏆)
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekSforSquares

A Memory Game tin box with 3 cards on the top showing a family in a christmas scene taken at a local 'zoo' (wildlife reserve really!) with a letter Z in the bottom left corner, a family of 4 dressed in floral clothes with a letter E, and the same family dressed in denim with a letter D

My last entry for #WeekZ =ZED! I had this set of memory cards made from various family photos, esp the #lockdownlarks ones, but also gave them all appropriate initials so we could 'scrabble' a bit with them also, so here are Zoo, Efflorescent (F was taken for Fox 🦊) & Denim! 😂

#AlphabetChallenge 🔠🆒

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekX
X is for... X-Men

More of our #lockdownlarks for you!

#Wolverine #Marvel

A woman in a peach shirt & cream shorts and aviator sunglasses speaking whilst examining a large green leaf. An off-screen arm has its hand on her head to turn it towards the dinosaurs that were visible in the film but sadly not in our garden...

"This species of Veriforman's been extinct since..."

A bit of fun for my final #WeekV, our version of Ellie's line before the head turn & big reveal in the inimitable #JurassicPark 🦕 for our #lockdownlarks 😁

Strap in for a week of #waterfalls coming 🤣

#MobilePhotography 📷
#Dinosaurs 🦕🦖
#plants 🌱

A family of 4 standing in a green garden, dressed from left to right in a gaudy shirt with oversize sunglasses, a rollerskating barmaid with a tray á la Martini advert, a 'Puss in Boots' music video type outfit, short skirt, fishnets and boots, an electric blue peplum jacket with shoulder pads, and a dandy highwayman Adam Ant outfit

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekR
R is for... Retro... Recent-er!

The #lockdownlarks fast forward a decade and here we are giving our best 80s efforts! 😂

#MobilePhotography 📷

A collage of 5 pictures showing Ripley from the Alien films, cringing away from the alien, an orange chair with antimacassar, a girl dressed as John Travolta from Saturday Night Fever, a woman dressed in an approximation of a Bohemian Rhapsody outfit, and another full length of Ripley in her jumpsuit

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekR
R is for... Retro & Ripley

Here's the 70s edition of our #lockdownlarks! My outfit is one @loopyk.bsky.social at least might get 🤔 And yes, that's Jon 'dressed' as a chair 🤣

#MobilePhotography 📷
#Alien
#SaturdayNightFever