My head is in such a spin right now – there are options to choose and I haven’t got a clue. There is control that needs taking and I don’t know if I’m woman enough! I need to be braver, I like the comfiness of things way too much. I am happy that I have chosen a safe path, but the odd dalliance into the scary woods now and again really wouldn’t hurt. Would it?
During December the city centre is filled with the wonderful smells of a huge german market which is fantastically christmassy – there’s also this lovely carousel…
I was blossom-mad during the springtime and now I find myself berry-mad doring the winter months. This tree is really quite spooky looking though – I think it’s the shape of the branches.
It’s a good job that orange is such a jolly colour otherwise autumn would really be very depressing. It’s everywhere…
Above photos taken with Polaroid SX-70
Above photo taken with Ricoh GX-200
Whenever I am away from my desk for any period of time my head is always racing with ideas and plans and mental lists of stuff-to-do.
Such fabulous ideas don’t need writing down, surely? They’ll never be forgotton.
Oh yes they will, they will ALL be forgotten!
Not that I haven’t already got a million notebooks but I bought this smashing orange one with squared paper as it looked quite european and functional (and vaguely familiar from my past). Plus the bright orange shows up in the depths of my cavernous handbag.
Now – it’s one thing having the ideas and writing them down, I now have no excuse about not actually do something about them!
(I may have to add writing this blog post as one of the things to do – I can tick something off then).
If ony the weather had cooperated it would have been heaven! At the Mela this year there was great food, music and celebrations. My favourite thing though was the Indian Kareoke – amazing!
Here’s hoping that there are funds enough to do it again next year and that the sun decides to join us.
[I used my Ricoh GX200 camera to take these photos, which is normally amazing but as ISO400 was required in such grim weather became really very 'noisy'].
Feeling lethargic so not many words today. Don’t forget there’s a few hours left to enter my birthday draw – $80 of free stuff could be yours and all you need to do is leave a comment on the aforementioned post!
The weekend promised to be (and was) beautifully sunny and warm, so I risked ruining it all by buying some new sunglasses. I’m always sitting on them or losing them so I only buy cheap ones – plus it means you get to choose new ones each year…
To test them out we went on a bit of a hike along the Itchen Way – it’s a lovely river walk, but it’s a long river so we only did a bit of it – about 3 miles. I’m getting better at the whole countryside thing – even though there’s no pavement, lots of mud and no coffee shops at all, I bearly mentioned any of these things and managed to have a jolly good time…
We spotted about a million teeny, baby trout, a giant bunny rabbit, all sorts of ducks, swans etc and a water rat swimming alongside us. None of which are in any of these photos. Photos which, by the way, I took with my previously mentioned Ricoh GX200 point-and-shoot. Which I still think is fab.
Today we walked for miles, all around Southampton. This magnolia tree in the park was shining like a beacon – calling me with my new little camera – so, so pink!
