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Courtyards need careful planning avoid planning to avoid their becoming overwhelmed by too many clever ideas. Wherever possible, features such as planters, shrubs, and screens that will prevent the entire courtyard being seen from any one position should be incorporated to disguise the yard's small size. The siting of pots of plants can also add to the illusion of space.

You can avoid some of these reflections by being careful planning avoid in your selection of Camera position, and kill off others by having someone help you hold up a large black cloth to screen off the offending light. The best way to avoid the auto headlights is to shoot very late at night when there are few cars on the streets, and then to hold a dark slide or other dark object in front of the lens to interrupt the exposure each time a car passes. (Exposures will run five to ten seconds or more if you stop down to f/32 or thereabouts for maximum depth. )

Looking back, several separate strands of development in our home reading scheme seem very clear. It is easy to use hindsight to improve on reality but I will try to avoid it by reminding myself at the outset what exceedingly hard work the scheme was for everyone involved. It was not just in the planning and preparation stages, not solely in the frantic exercise of the launch - a period of about three weeks - but in the continuous daily practice of monitoring, talking, recording, meeting, supporting and yet more planning. Maintenance and revitalization were crucial factors from the first week of the scheme's operation. A few preliminary factors, I believe, are of overriding importance in the success of the first eighteen months.