5 in 5 - September 2016 - A trip back in time

                                        Welcome to '5 in 5' where on the 5th of

each month I post 5 photos that I have

taken in 5 minutes.

I love watching films, usually curled up on the sofa in front of the TV with a DVD or Netflix. But occasionally a trip to the cinema makes seeing a film special. Especially when I go to one of the original cinemas that we are lucky to have in Essex. Their charm and character make it so much more enjoyable than the modern multi-screen complex experiences that dominate today.  And at £3 a ticket, and big comfy leather sofas to relax in (as an option to the original rows of seats) it is a lovely way to spend a few hours.

So yesterday I took my three grand daughters to see Swallows and Amazons. As you might know, I love the water and take any opportunity to be near or on it.  I also have happy memories of reading this series of books to my children when they were young, and what's more, during our annual camping holiday a week ago my grand daughters played in the river where Arthur Ransome had some of his boats built. So, without wasting more time, let me show you some photos of the beautiful Rio Cinema.

There is an art-deco feel to the design.

No ticket machines or booking on the internet here.

In the foyer there are camera's and photos of bygone days

and two cinema screens.

We all enjoyed the film.  The sense of adventure, innocent childhood, and a time when children played outdoors and made their own entertainment fills me with longing. But I try to share these opportunities to my grand daughters as much as possible and I will come back and tell you about our camping holiday soon.  A long with the long-ago promised second part of our scavenger hunt!

                                                               

It is always fun to have company in this photo challenge so a big thank you to Mary-Lou, Maggie, Joy, Melanie, Miriam, Barbara, Karen and Borqna for taking part last month. And to all those who visited  and left comments. And YOU would be very welcome to join in too. I am having problems with the layout at the moment so until I sort this out please go to my last post to find out what you do. Thank you for visiting and have a good week.

5 in 5 - MELANIE - August 2016

Melanie is my friend who lives in Australia and she loves photography.  Every month since the start of this challenge Melanie has taken part in this monthly meme and as she doesn't have her own blog I post here. I love that we have found a way for her to take part, so over to you Melanie:

Hi this month my 5 in 5 is a very staged 5 in 5.  No spontaneous snaps.  This month in and around Adelaide there is the South Australian festival of arts:- Sala. http://www.salafestival.com/

I  checked out a few of the venues with exhibitions and my intention was to go to two today and hopefully find between the two a five minute slot to take photos.  My day turned out completely not what I planned.  I didn’t even make it to one venue so I needed to think again for a photo subject and it needed to be something around my home. Since the 5^th of the month has fallen on a Friday I decided to use a snapshot of our regular Friday activity as my 5 in 5 photos.  Most Fridays we cook pizzas and our daughter and grandson join us to eat them.  Today was no exception but our grandson was around helping with most of the prep.  He loves being involved and did all the measuring of the ingredients for the pizza dough and had fun when helping rolling out the dough.  He is two so I will leave the image of his rolling out dough to your imagination and just add it involves tasting the raw dough.  I took my photos at the point when all the prep was done and the oven was on heating but before the dough was being rolled and the pizzas assembled for cooking.  In the top left hand photo the dough is ready for rolling.  In the top right hand photo some topping ingredients.  In the bottom left hand photo there is the pizza oven , this is an outdoor gas oven.  Then there are two photos on the right hand side bottom one of two cheese toppings, feta and haloumi and the other with tomato for a margarita pizza and a topping of asparagus and capsicum.  That is it for August.  Hopefully I shall get to see some of the Sala exhibitions but they are only around for the month of August so no good for the next 5 in 5. I shall just have to put my thinking cap on for September.

Thank you for joining in Melanie, I really enjoyed the photos and telling of Friday traditions.  Cooking pizza is something we like to do, especially with my granddaughters. They like to make their own toppings too but I have never seen an pizza oven like yours. I'm rather impressed!  I hope you get to the festival of arts, lucky you to have it so close to home.  

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If this has inspired you to pick up your camera and take part this post will answer questions and give the information that you need. And if you want to see other 5 in 5 photos for this month just go to the original post.

Hopefully Melanie will be back next month and I look forward to you joining us. Thank you for popping by, it is great to have your company.