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Snow

Mildew — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:34:51 +0000

Not enough snow to keep me from work, but it’s lovely to see a bit of it. Makes Enfield feel like Narnia.

Dawn

Mildew — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:00:02 +0000

One good thing about going back to work is witnessing the amazing sunrises we’ve been getting.

Hopefully, we’ll get some snow tomorrow morning.

Christmas

Mildew — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:03:24 +0000

Happy new year readers! I hope you had a lovely Christmas. I’m back in the office this morning (sigh), so to cheer myself up, here’s some pictures of the holiday just gone.
Christmas day was spent with Dave’s parents and playing games such as Jenga

I was given a fisheye lens add on for my camera

That’s my family there, we spent boxing day with them, I got some great presents from them, a couple of which I’ll take photos of and show you because they’re that awesome.

The day after boxing day we went for the traditional family walk along Southbourne beach. The weather was perfect, freezing cold, but brilliant sunshine and awesome clouds.

Honeymoon

Mildew — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:12:04 +0000

We went to a lot of places while on honeymoon; got the Eurostar to Brussels, stayed a night there, got a train to Cologne, stayed a night there, caught the overnight sleeper train to Copenhagen, stayed in that fine city for two nights, took an overnight ferry to Oslo, stayed there for a night then took a beautiful seven hour train ride to Bergen where we stayed for four nights before going home. Phew! It was hard work, and we’re in need of a proper holiday now, but was a wonderful experience and something I’ll remember with joy for the rest of my days. If you want to trawl through the hundreds of photographs I took throughout the trip, click on the photo below:

Poladroid

Mildew — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:42:48 +0000

I’ve never owned a Polaroid camera, and what with them not being produced anymore, I’m not likely too either. Which is a shame really as there’s something lovely about the look of the photos produced. But have no fear, for there is a smart piece of freeware available on the net to play with. Poladroid converts your photos into a lovely polaroid looking jpegs complete with the warm colouring and the waiting for the picture to develop. It’s really worth downloading. Even crappy mundane photos like mine look good after being transformed!

sewing, photos, spiders

Mildew — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:32:36 +0000

So many things to talk about! Such little time. Where to begin?

I’m learning to sew with the aid of Dave’s mum and a very old sewing machine. There’s a definite knack I’m having to learn. It’s going ok though, at least I can guide the material through the machine straightly. Next stop, getting my head round patterns. I made a mini tote bag with some scraps of fabric that happens to be perfect for holding bags of money around…

… the bags of money were pound coins saved up by Dave in a little goldfish money box (named Archie in tribute to our first pet fish) which were carried by me in my new mini tote to the bank so I could go to Amazon and buy this beauty. A proper camera! To take proper photos! Hooray! Look at what I’ve done:

These was taken on Sunday on a very nice day trip with my sister Becky and her friend Tess (who went off to see Prince later on that day, the lucky buggers)

Canary Warf and the upstairs neighbour’s little kitten Fred, who is the cutist, most curious little cat ever. He’s absolutely gorgeous and every time he wonders into our flat there’s always a little voice in my head suggesting we keep him.

My trip to Oz is now complety booked with my last week spent in a hostel run by a bunch of hippies. Awesome. I have now spent the past half an hour looking at pictures of Australian spiders and literally putting myself off my lunch. Humph.