14. Free Prints UK - use me invite code

 Hi there ! 

There was a time when I ordered prints and one photo book from www.freeprintsapp.co.uk every month. Just like the name says they are sort of for free, because you have to pay for shipping. 

This is a phone application. No registration required, no subscription required, no obligation. The applications can be downloaded to an Iphone or an Android phone. It is one of the top rated apps in this category. 

What we have for free:

• up to 45 photos in 6x4 format
• up to 500 6x4 photos per year 

We pay for: 

• additional 6x4 photos 
• photos in other formats 
• shipping - the first one is for £ 1.49, but never more than £ 3.99 no matter how many photos we order 

The application is easy to use and works very quickly. He has access to our photos on the phone (both those posted on FB, Instagram, etc.), we choose the right photos, improve the frame, choose the number and it's ready. The photos are printed on very good Kodak or Fuji paper. They reach us within a few days in a very well packed envelope, so there is no chance that anything will happen to them. 

Separately, we can download applications for a photo book - www.freeprintsphotobooks.co.uk 

We get a free photobook in 7x5 format in a soft cover. The book has 20 pages, but you can put several photos on each page. 

We pay for additional pages, a different size and a hard cover, and for delivery. The price does not change regardless of the number of ordered books. I think I used to pay £5.99 for one. 

Freeprints has other applications as well, such as Free 8x8 Photo Tile or FreePrints Cards. 

You can get an additional 17 free prints per month by inviting friends or family and sharing on Twitter. Unfortunately, unused photos don't carry over to the next month, so it's worth using these 45 prints per month. If the photo is of poor quality, a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark appears next to it. 

Each ivited friend who orders at least 17 prints means that we get 5 additional photos. 

Here is my invite code - anienadowska1

It works both ways. I get 5 prints for free and so do you :) 

You can pay by card or paypal. You can choose between glossy or matte finishes for your photos. I choose usually glossy because I like photos that shiny nicely. A quality is really cool ! I am always happy. 

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Recenty, on a post ( on my main blog in polish ) about Free Prints, I received a comment from someone who was dissatisfied with their services. I didn't have any problems with my orders, so I didn't use their customer service center, but ... I was ALWAYS happy with everything else. 

Of course, I know that everyone can have a different experience. Something works for some, not necessarily for others. Sometimes one seller has a lot of positive opinions and the same number of negative ones, because everyone has the right to have different expectations about the product. 

My update is about the quality of the photos, because I ordered matte photos for the first time. I wanted to see if the quality would be similar to those of the glossy. I'm happy. Everything looks proffesional to me, I have no objections. I wanted matte photos also because I got bored with those shiny ones already and I decided that maybe the matte ones will look better in frames on the wall, because we are a family that likes to hang pictures around the house :) 

Thanks to the people who used my code ( invite code ) anienadowska1, I collected 62 photos for printing, where normally is 45. Thank these people :) They also benefited, because using my invite code gives them an additional 5 prints for free. 

I would also like to tell you that the photos still look good after a few years. Has something happened to them ? Have they lost color and quality ? In my opinion - NO. According to me, they still look they should :) 

PS. Nobody pays me for advertising: P But it's probably an obvious thing :) My blog is not popular at all :) I checked everything that I recommend myself :-) 

13. January and February 2021 - a small photo review

 Hello after a long break :)

Things have been going on with us over the past three months. Among other things, home learning, then the return of the children to school, but the most important is our move to a new home at the beginning of March. 

Today I will show you some photos from January and February  :) Enjoy ! 

January 

Happy New Year !

Snowy day 

we'll make a snowman today ....

Empties project 

Some more snow 

Milosz also wants to be a baby

a walk on a very frosty day

selfie time 

hard work teaching my son to write and read

In Poland, Grandma's Day and Grandpa's Day are celebrated on January 21st and 22nd.

The gym is closed, so my boys have to deal differently.

winter has not yet said goodbye

Time for a bike 

February 

February is a return to home workout

Picnic time 

We make a rainbow 

Unicorn 

Pizza Day 

Fat Thursday is a traditional Christian feast marking the last Thursday before Lent and is associated with the celebration of Carnival. Because Lent is a time of fasting, the days leading up to Ash Wednesday provide the last opportunity for feasting until Easter.

My children. 

Valentine's Day 

is it spring already?

12. National lockdown again :(

 While I was optimistic about the new year, hoping it wouldn't be worse than last year, a national lockdown was announced in the UK and schools closed. It hadn't been normal for months at Blackburn. We have never been here on tier 2, we still had tier 3, then tier 4, and now this :( How to live normally, how to enjoy life while there are still bans and worse, uncertainty about when and if it will all end :( Honestly, I've long since stopped hoping for improvement. It's not even that I don't want to stay home with my kids. It is about THEIR mental health and education. I don't know if Milko will have to stay a year longer at reception because he won't learn to read and write to go to Year 1. You know, studying at home is not the same as at school. He cannot concentrate on tasks when there are so many things around him.

And Nadia also had a problem with maths before Christmas. I don't know how online would handle it.

But will my anger and frustration change anything? No. Because I'm not the one who makes the decisions. I just have to adapt to this. On the one hand, I also don't understand that nursery and special schools are open. What is the difference between a 3 year old and a 4 year old except for age. Maybe it should look different somehow, for example, multigenerational families living under one roof should stay at home, and those that can isolate themselves should let their children go to school. In our case it is so that we are alone here. We don't meet the family because we don't have one here. My children have the only contact with their peers at school, because even in the neighborhood we don't have friends with whom we would meet.

Besides, in my opinion, these lockdowns do not make any sense. They lock people up in their houses, then let them go and what? It is known that when they sit at home they do not get infected, and when they come out the virus spreads. This is probably not a great philosophy. And what's the point? Unfortunately, everyone has to become resistant, everyone has to go through it somehow: (The elderly, with poor immunity, at risk - they should, of course, isolate themselves, but believe me, I see a lot of elderly people here who do not stay at home. , lots of them on the walks. I guess it's best to just keep common sense.

I also had the coronavirus, Krzysiek did, I suspect that our children also went through it. My family in Poland and friends had it. Some passed lightly, others a little worse, but luckily no one had to go to hospitalization.

My mind is not working anymore. The sooner I get depressed and mentally mock than the virus will defeat me.

Here the police do not stop anyone, they do not reprimand - if they have a notification, they check it, of course, but I suspect that most of them also have enough. What is forbidden from us is sometimes absurd.

I had to let go of what was bothering me or I would have gone mad. At home, no one can listen to me anymore: P

I wrote this right on the second day after the announcement, so now it is known that the emotions have subsided a bit, but I am still broken.

What's your opinion ?

11. The last three months of 2020

Hello guys!

If you want to be up to date with what is going on with me and my family, then of course I invite you to my Polish blog.

Here, I only upload a few photos from the last three months and I will write a little briefly about what happened with us.

 The fall passed us rather calmly. The children went to school almost all the time. My son unfortunately had home learning in December as there was a coronavirus case in the classroom.

a little accident at school

my son did it at school

beer for a tough guy

Odd Socks Day 

My daughter developed artistically.

Spotty Day 

something for the immune system for my kids

I was able to read some books.But I read fewer books in 2020 than in 2019, even though I was working a lot at the time. 

at work 

Halloween has been very quiet this year. The day before, I was with the children for a walk in the park. And on Halloween, we were home. We didn't go picking up candies, but a few people knocked on our door for a trick or a trick.

I made an order twice in a Polish online pharmacy. I am curious to see what such orders will look like when the UK is no longer in the European Union. Do you think Brexit is good for the UK?

We even managed to drink coffee a few times in a cafe, not to take away. I already have enough of these limitations that are not really effective at all.

My son had flu vaccinations at school, but we indicated that we did not want to vaccinate him. In my opinion, this vaccine is not necessary if the child is not ill and has very good immunity.

my son's art at home learning 

In Poland, it is Christmas Eve that is the most important. The family sits down at the table for the evening and eats certain foods that are usually eaten on that day. These are bigos, dumplings, fish, vegetable salad with mayonnaise, borscht with dumplings, cheesecake, poppy seed cake, croquettes, cabbage rolls with minced meat and rice. First, we share the wafer that symbolizes the body of Christ. We sing Christmas carols and at the end we open gifts.

Later, on Christmas Eve, I lost the smell and taste. It was hard to cook festive dishes when nothing tasted or smelled.

Bigos 

December did not start badly. We signed a contract for a new apartment because we were to move out in January. Unfortunately, we still have to wait for the house change. My beloved had surgery under general anesthesia, and later fell ill with coronavirus.

My mother lives in Germany. Every year, she sends money, gifts and a carton of sweets for Christmas.

Milosz also brought Christmas gifts from school.

Avon

Milosz and I were making Christmas decorations from salt dough. Milosz cut out the shapes, I put them in the oven, and when they got cold, Milosz painted them with paints.

This year's Christmas cards were sent in a package to my sister, who would later distribute them to everyone. Only to my mother I sent a postcard, because my mother does not live in Poland.

In Poland, children receive gifts twice in December. First time in Mikolajki, St. Nicholas Day. In the evening, the children clean their shoes earlier and put them on the windowsill. At night, Santa Claus comes and puts small gifts and sweets in their shoes. In the morning, when the children get up, they have a surprise. In some regions, gifts are hidden under a pillow or on the balcony.

A few days before the end of the year, snow has fallen. But there was joy. Everyone in Poland envied us the snow.

And we spent New Year's Eve with friends. It was very nice, I don't even know when, and it was already 5 am.

Happy New Year ! That this year will be wonderful in every way.