Jumping for Joy

Five hundred consecutive blips. If anyone had said, on the day I started, that I would manage to get to five hundred without skipping a day I would have thought they were mad. But here I am. It's not just because I enjoy the challenge of taking a photo every day and not just because I was delighted to find such a collection of interesting, amusing, creative and borderline insane fellow blippers. It's more to do with the fact that I've had my eyes opened to the world around me more keenly in this past five hundred days than I had previously.

My joyful jumping blip was done in a spare second between walking the whippet, dropping kids at school, driving back to pick up a puking one, settling the puking one down in front of the TV and now pacing the floor waiting to hear the results of my father-in-law's CAT scan before driving back to the school to pick up the other two kids.

Consequently commenting may be difficult later, as it has been for a few weeks, but I have reminded myself that the main aim when I started five hundred days ago was to see if I could post a photo I liked every day and that's what has kept me here. And why I still enjoy it.

Finally, as ever, thanks to the BAFTA Boys for creating and maintaining this unique site.