lmao @  mum :D
It's great to add a touch of humour to portraits :)

Not to worry Andreas, it would be nice to find out exactly what it is she doesn't like though.  They are well made portraits but they do all have very deep shadow and contrast perhaps she doesn't like that ?

Ya don't get Gizmo being this precious............. :D   

Nice shots Joe - I like the light on the steam in No3 especially :)

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html