While building this gallery for this client, I ran into an issue where if you clicked on the next page in the navigation block and selected a project on the second page, when the new project loaded the block would reload back on page 1.  The Designer and I thought that pagers really needed to remember what page they were on but as of four years ago it was a feature Views and the core pager didn't support, so at the bottom of an issue someone else opened up four years ago asking for this to happen some kind soul provided this code:

We've had a couple of days going semi-rural this week.  The first was a picnic at a friend's 12 acre block in Bullsbrook where a great time was had by all children and I caught an awesome photo of my friends' kids and pretended to be closer to a master of iPhone camera composition.

Pretended to be closer to a master as it was a very, very quick "whip phone out of pocket aim try to get horizon lines and vague rule of thirds thing happening press button before kids move" kinda photo.

Minimal photomanip cleaning up the pic a little bit ( and seeing as I'm not perfect I'll leave the bit where my jacket bunched up) and adding the white "glow" as though my UV strips are still intact (they lost an altercation with dryer temperature).

Then I wrote this acceptance/tolerance thing to go with it, started decorating the words, decided that it sounded wanky and pretentious and just put my sig on there (which of course required much resizing to try to pretend I know anything about composition and colours and stuff).

Then I started toying with various brushes tring to make a grungey abstracty type background...and ended up leaving it with a minimalist slightly noisy background that I fade into because that's what I do.

I showed the pose to quadrapop (who made me the bell) and she said something about so many conflicting messages. 

Yep.

Tools:

From writing and art not really being his "thing", 9yo recently had a sudden explosion of doing a bit of it without me yelling out that it was bookwork o'clock and him coming and doing some or not as he felt like.

He made a new character which is supposed to be a roleplaying character (though I have already told him I'm not sure how well it would fit into the WoD Changeling system we have but I can usually make things work and if there is a next time maybe it can be after Winter if I ever get my paws on and head around the new version) and spent a couple of days writing notes and a backstory:

9yo hopped into my bed in the early hours after The Linux Geek left for work.  After chilling for a bit he asked me: "Is this real or is this a dream?"

"I think so," I replied after a moment's hesitation.  "There's a creation myth, can't remember whose, maybe one of the Native American tribes, about how the entire universe is the dream of some god and when that god wakes up we'll all stop existing."

Then he asked, "What if every atom was a universe, and all the atoms in that were universes as well?"

I answered that I had had similar thoughts previously and there had once a theory involving fractals and everything being repeated at different scales...or something to that effect.  We then imagined containing bazillions of tiny little universes and our entire universe being an atom inside something phenomenally huge to us which might be an ant in that outer universe.

Last time we were out this way was a few years ago for a Truffle Festival.  This time round we came out this way on the weekly excursion (which he hadn't done for a couple of weekends due to some major works including replacing the fence out the front and helping friends lay some cable to a shed) and because 7yo heard there was an art gallery.

We stopped by the "village" to pick up maps and things for 7yo's collection and she also bought a butterfly spotter's book and to hit up the bakery for lunch.  We took the food to the Sculpture Park and the kids had a play at the playground before we checked out the sculptures, read  and followed the track up to where there were some rail switching levers and an amphitheatre.  Ru put a performance on the old platform (now a stage).

Duplo "i LOVE U" by 9yo with a little blue heart in the O

7yo's pic of Hootabella, one of the owls from the Giggle and Hoot show on ABC4Kids.  She has since added in a magic wand and we will be sending it in to the Giggle Gallery along with one she helped 5yo with

me: We're going to find out how people lived in the 1900s!
7yo: how long ago was that?
me: so long ago not even Great Nanny was born then.
7yo: the Stone Age?
me: ...[trying not to laugh]...not that long ago.
7yo: Romans?
me: not that long ago either.
7yo: [thinking]...Tudors?
me: that's probably closer.

"Speed" paint (wasn't exactly speedy but was pretty quick by my standards :P) inspired by a conversation with quadrapop and Chappie wherein I eventually commented:

"i should see if i can acquisition a small rainbow or just a strip of cloth even, put a large bell on it and wear it as a necklace
then i can sit there and flaunt my dubious sexuality as well as being somewhere with bells on"

5yo: creepers are the same as TNT just with legs and green and walking.