Portobello Road

For our long Easter weekend we went to London to look after my brother's cats while he went away.

Meet 'Baileys'

When we first arrived we weren't in the mood for trekking too far into town so took the tube a few stops to Notting Hill and wandered around Portobello Road as it was closing down for the day.  We had a coffee in a pretty yard, bought some bits for dinner from a Spanish shop and generally just soaked up the goings on as the hub died down.

March roundup

March's roundup includes views from my office, photos taken from the car on all the road trips we've done recently and a few from London.

My Mum - she is more trendy than me!

Somewhere grand to dry off...

It rained and it poured on New Years day in London.  We were so lucky to be able to walk around Columbia Road flower market before the heavens opened.  We're big fans of just wandering around London so the rain did throw us a bit.  After having a bit of a sulk in a coffee shop we got the tube to the Natural History Museum.  

I may make a few enemies by saying this but I'm just not into museums.  I get really bored and sleepy walking around them.  I'm all about the pretty and ignorant about the history of anything...

I have however always loved the grandeur of the Natural History Museum and can quite happily walk around and enjoy the architecture while the people I'm with look around the exhibits.

I'd like to go back on a really sunny day, I'm a big fan of natural light I bet it looks stunning!

2011 in 12 frames

I recently joined up to twitter and discovered this great blog Everything Reminds Me of You "retweeted".  Elle's most recent blog post inspired me to look through all the pictures I've taken this year and try and summarise the year in 12 frames.

It was really hard to pick just 12 but the photos I have chosen I think are a good sample of where we were with our cameras this year.  The first four pictures were shot on our SLR and the last three on the recently purchased DSLR.  There is a Diana mini photo in the middle and the rest are shot with the iPhone.  

My photography resolutions for 2012 are to learn a bit more about how to use the DSLR and try and transfer this to the SLR as I do still love the romance of film photography I just still don't know yet what I'm really doing!

Farewell to 2011...

Bring on 2012!