It's 3.50 pm on Wednesday

I was going to log in and  try to complete our Indian visa applications but I have been so frazzled by the sheer complexities of taking ID photos on my phone to upload, I decided to come here instead. How is it that such a simple thing can defeat us. If you go to the app store there must be 100 and 1 apps to do this one task, why? When you download them you discover that at the end of the process of taking the picture they want you to send it to them so they can charge you for sending you the picture. No, I want to save it to my phone so I can then upload it to the Indian visa place. Anyway, after some minor lighting alterations and perching Fred on a stool so he had no shadows cast across his face and the background was the appropriate white, I proceeded to take the picture. However, a 9 year old perched on a stool with up and side and back lighting, to avoid shadow, finds it practically impossible to keep a straight face. In oder to reduce the smile I applied stiffing gaffer tape to the rear of his head which effectively disabled the muscles operating any facial expressions. I left it on far too long and Fred now has a rather gormless grin and was unable to break into smiles when grandma arrived. Which lead to all sorts of questions, " you sure he's ok ". Removing the gaffer tape did reduce the barber bill, as the number one cut we had planned was unnecessary as he now has a bald patch at the rear of his head! I guess I should now go and upload the picture.

[its not the case I applied gaffer tape to his head. It just made it sound more fun than it actually was.....]