22/11/2025
A gentle reminder that I’m now taking bookings for School Photos in January . . .
😂
Before becoming a parent, I thought School Photo Days were straightforward, a fella takes a picture of your kid at school, you buy a copy from them for a few quid. ..Nope.
- Hi there, we’ve taken a picture of your kid at school and wondered if you’d like one?
- Oh, ok, yeah I’ll take one.
- Well.. we don’t do single photos we do ‘packages’.
- Ok, what’s the most basic package?
- That would be Package One. It’s one normal-sized photo and 42 wallet-sized photos.
- Well, that’s sh*te, I don’t know 42 people. I certainly don’t know 42 people who own a wallet. And I definitely don’t know 42 people who are weird enough to carry around a picture of someone else’s kid in their wallet.
- They’re great for passport photos.
- 42!? How many passports do you think he needs? He’s a six year old kid, not James Fu**kin Bond.
- OK, well Package Two is one of our bestsellers.
- What’s that?
- That’s 20 photos, all really awkward sizes, either too small to frame or too big to give to relatives without it being weird.
- Great. ..Package Three?
- That’s Package Two plus a snow-globe and a 6-foot canvas for your living room wall.
- Jesus, no.
- Look just give me the cheapest.. Package One.
- Certainly.
- Is that it? Can I pay now?
- Tea towel?
- What?
- Tea towel?
- Are you taking the p**s? Why the bloody hell would I want a tea towel with a picture of my kid gurning on it? It’d be like drying the pots with the Turin Shroud. I’ll just take the..
- Cushion?
- No.
- Mug?
- No.
- 6 foot cardboard cut-out.
- NO.
- What about a hot air balloon? They’re twenty feet wide and we’ll tether it to your back fence.
- Wha..?
- They’re very popular.
- No.
- We can project your kid’s face on to the moon?
- Why would yo..?
- What about one of those big, blow-up, wavey -hands things you get outside car dealerships?
- NO.
- We’ll tattoo their face onto a pig?
- JESUS CHRIST!?, what is wrong with you people!? Look, just send me the sh*tty wallet package.
- No problem. Package One. That’ll be 45 quid please.
- What the bloody..!? Are you hand-painting each one!? I’m not paying that.
- Well, its memories isn’t it. And they are only young once, aren’t they? And you can’t get this time back and..
- ..Fine.
…and give me one of those f*ing tea towels as well.