Photographs and memories

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No Tigger not a strikingly pretty child on this photograph but one where the child looks as though she is having fun. Her hair is blowing behind her with the speed she is going at, she looks care free where many photographs to me look like she has lots of cares.

I cannot imagine that is her bike, though it does look new, the wheels are very clean.

That bike is just too small for her imo her knees look as though they would catch on the handlebar. To me it looks as though she is having a speed about on Amelia's new bike.

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Nina wrote: snipped
No Tigger not a strikingly pretty child on this photograph but one where the child looks as though she is having fun. Her hair is blowing behind her with the speed she is going at, she looks care free where many photographs to me look like she has lots of cares.

I cannot imagine that is her bike, though it does look new, the wheels are very clean.

That bike is just too small for her imo her knees look as though they would catch on the handlebar. To me it looks as though she is having a speed about on Amelia's new bike.

I didn't mean that in a derogatory way, in many photographs she looks almost ill to me. She was a lovely little toddler, but not outstandingly beautiful, it annoys me that her parents have seen fit to put make up on her during her life time and photoshopped the great majority of the photographs of Maddie after her death. One little film is taken with a special lens, same as they used to do on photoshoots of models.
I've been rapped over the knuckles before for saying she wasn't 'beautiful' as if that would make her less important! My heart goes out to that unhappy little girl.

Yes Nina, it's one of the rare photographs where she is really, really enjoying herself. In so many she looks insecure or stressed.

Marian wrote:Another climbing frame image this time with the added delight of Gerry!

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Judging by the clothes this could have been taken on the same day as the tennis court photo (no not THAT one with the "gorgeous" ragbag outfit!) which was posted somewhere recently.

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Kikoraton: I presume that you mean that there's a line of some sort around Madeleine's left elbow and the arm below that point looks darker.

As for the cousin with the incredible growth spurt, that clearly is a McCann family trait! Do I understand correctly that John McCann and his family (including cousin Gregor) live in England or Scotland so who was it the McCanns were supposedly visiting in Donegal?

P.S. I have answered my own question about the McCanns' connections with Donegal.

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If you look at the edge of Madeleine's red dress against the beige kitchen cupboards there is a white shadow/line running along the edge of her dress and under the woman's left arm who is holding Madeleine. There is also a white shadow running along Kate's black top under her left hand down to the plates on the table.

There's a brown line running under Madeleine's ear towards her chin, I can't tell whether it's some hair or whether Madeleine's head has been added on top of another child's, hence the brown line.