Village type

You know me... always on the lookout for some nice type! Here's some from the village we were staying in. I felt like such a tourist walking around taking pictures, but then again I was one :)

Talking about type; if you're in London and into typography you must check out the Wim Crouwel exhibition at the Design Museum - it's type heaven I tell you!

Friday/Saturday

Some randoms from our weekend away visiting friends in Wiltshire. The weather was amazing and it was great to get out of London for a couple of days. I must make sure we get out of the city more often... Happy Wednesday!

Bring it!

It's summer here in London! In April! Make the most of it! Not much time for the computer in other words, but I thought I'd say hello. Now then... where are my summer clothes?!

Last week

Going by your comments on the previous post (thank you!!) I'm guessing you won't mind too much if I post these here. As a rule I don't like posting things twice (not counting flickr), but if I didn't I wouldn't really have anything to put here right now! These are all from last week when we had a great spell of weather, in fact on Sunday we went to our first barbecue of the year and that's the nephew having a little post-dinner lie-down in the fourth picture. Hope you have a great weekend peeps!

Meanwhile over on Instagram

Some pictures from the past couple of weeks as seen through my phone. I'm completely in love with the square format, it's like getting a new set of eyes! Thank you so much for your film recommendations, I shall try some of your suggestions out soon... once I stop being so addicted to Instagram :)

Alphabet Street

Some more shots from my Yashica T5. It wasn't a terribly exciting roll I must say, so these will be the last ones from it. I took these around Old Street just after I met up with Melanie for the first time (see how time slows with film...). She shoots a lot of her stuff with a Yashica T4, so I dusted my T5 off to see what it could do (I think I last used ten years ago). Anyway, on Melanie's recommendation I used a 400 ISO roll of Lomography film which in my view makes regular film almost look cross-processed. I must get more different kinds of film to experiment with, it's such fun to see the differences. What's your favourite film to shoot with?

400 ISO

Whoops! I forgot I'd half-prepared this post last night so please excuse the minimal text that was on here (although if you're reading this you never saw it, haha!). Anyway, I have to rush out as it's another lovely day, so all I'll say is that these two are from a recent film I loaded into my Yashica T5 (the bottom pic cracks me up). I'll be back on Monday with some more pics from that roll; in the mean time have yourselves a great weekend!

Bad blogger

Oh dear. My grand plans of taking lots of pictures last week didn't quite happen. Or I guess they did, but I took most of them on my phone and then uploaded them on Instagram. I've never really understood why people take pictures with their phones (not high res quality enough and no manual controls! Oh wait, they might like not having to lug a camera around all the time!) and now I'm that person! I must see to it that I don't forget about this space; in fact sitting down and typing this right now I'm really happy to be here again. I'll be back, I promise!

Instant love

If only blogging was as easy and quick as Instagram! Sandra got me hooked on it properly over the weekend; I never got the point of Twitter or Facebook, but this is right up my street. I've got a very dear friend staying with us this week so I won't have time for regular posts, but if you have an iPhone you can follow me on Instagram (search for famapa) where I dare say I'll be posting some more pics. Hope you guys have a great week - I'm certainly looking forward to the rest of it and all the photos I'll be taking :)

About a cat

Claire over on Lola is Beauty started a sweet little series a few weeks ago, where readers can find out a bit more about the feline friends of bloggers across the world. Well, yesterday it was Little Mo's turn, so head on over if you want to find out more about the fourth member in our household. Also, thank you for your lovely comments on the previous post; my back is pretty much back (ha!) to normal - phew. Happy Friday amigos!

Re-start

Hello again! I didn't mean to go AWOL; I did my back in quite badly a couple of weeks ago and I've been struggling to get back into blogging mode since then. I've hardly taken any pictures either, but here's a few recent randoms. In my absence the blog turned 3, so I want to take this opportunity to thank you friends, commenters and lurkers who stop by here regularly - I hope the past three years in this space have been as much fun for you as they have been for me :)

Seeing red & orange

The Barbican has become a favourite hangout spot on the weekends; there's lots of room for Oomoo to run around in and it's indoors (although I must admit we're having clear blue skies right now - yay!). When we went on Sunday it was more hectic than usual when they were staging the Barbican Weekender and as you can see, at one point the little man decided to have a lie-down :) And see the seven? Yup... I'm holding hands with cold no. 7 as I write this. Ridiculous!

Everyday Thursday

This is what parts of my Thursday looked like. It feels like I've hardly taken any pictures over the past few weeks and I miss the daily challenge/joy of seeing things. This is going to sound stupid, but I only figured out the other day that being a mum is proper full-time job (duuuuuh!). Totting up the hours I realised that I do 14-hour days, so it's really no wonder that I don't have time to blog more often than I do! I ain't complaining though, it's the best and most important "job" I've ever done in my life and I wouldn't trade it for the world. Happy Friday y'all!

{600}

And just like that I have reached post number 600! Best to celebrate with some delicious and good looking chocolate from Brussels, eh?! The hubby had a work trip there over the weekend and I requested that he bring me back some Belgian chocolate. He brought back two squares! Only joking, he brought back four boxes of the stuff - score!