Backgrounds must now be 5%-10% grey – not white!

This “new rule” has actually been in place since the guidelines were laid down by the Identity and Passport Service three years ago. 

This year, however, they are applying the ‘new’ standards for passport photos more rigorously. The regulations have always stated that the background for passport photos should be off-white, or 5% – 10% grey.  During 2008 they will begin rejecting photos taken against a white background.

Employing a professional to produce your passport photographs may cost a few pounds more (we charge £10) but it can actually work out cheaper than having two or three attempts at getting it right in a photo booth. Not to mention the inconvenience of having to go through all the rigmarole again should the passport office reject them.

Details about our passport and I.D. photograph service

Don’t you just love embarrassing your children!

I mean, it’s payback time for all the times they embarrassed you as they were growing up. 

Jordan has long since refused to go shopping with us, for fear we might do a ‘Lou and Andy’.  How soon they forget the times they used to run around the supermarket swopping price labels on the goods and dropping packets of condoms in elderly ladies’ shopping trolleys.

So it seemed appropriate that on Jordan’s18th birthday we create a suitable card – with his parents taking the role of the Little Britain characters.

And just to prove we don’t really  look like Lou and Andy, here’s a shot of us enjoying pre dinner birthday drinks at The Wynnstay.

Oh dear!  On second thoughts, I’d better change that to:  at least Jayne doesn’t really look like one of the Little Britain crew.

“…I don’t like it!”