my funny eye

15/02/2013

Through the bars

When the kids made up a game of walking through some railings one bar at the time, I decided to hang back at let my zoom lens follow them. Have a jolly weekend!

13/02/2013

11/02/2013

Still waiting to find out about the place we're trying to buy. It's been five months of not knowing what's going to happen, not knowing if we'll actually get it. In the mean time my camera is very happy here :)

09/02/2013

On the bus

Thank you so much for your generous comments on the Oxford posts - I'm so glad you liked the pics. A couple of weeks ago we had to get the bus into town (exciting huh?!) and the light made it much more enjoyable than usual. Hope you all have a brill weekend!

07/02/2013

Oxford randomness

And so for the last pics from Oxford. When the rain got too bad we sheltered in the Ashmolean Museum and later at the Pitt Rivers Museum. The problem with visiting on a Sunday is that the colleges and the museums are only open for a few hours, and as I hadn't much time to figure out the layout of the city before we went, we had to rush through everything. We only got 15 minutes in Pitt Rivers before it closed, and we were gutted as it was obvious from the tiny amount we saw what an amazing place it was. There's only one thing for it: go back. And we will - soon!

05/02/2013

Uni time

Very late the night before we went to Oxford, I frantically tried to put together a bit of a plan for our day trip. I wish I could be more relaxed and just follow my nose when I'm somewhere new, but I can't - I'm a Virgo after all (that's my excuse anyway). Racking my brains I remembered that Alice lives in Oxford and so looked through her blog for any clues as to where to go. Not looking at any of the colleges in such a famous and old university town would be, uhm, weird and luckily Alice has made a bit of a guide to some of them. As we were very short for time, I chose Worcester College (pics 2 & 4) and Corpus Christi College (the rest). Both were beautiful in very different ways and I really want to go back in summer, as it'll be even more so then. However, the highlight of the day was when we were walking briskly through the rain, with the sun still shining. We turned to look behind us and there it was: a complete rainbow. Perfect!

31/01/2013

Walls & windows

Last Sunday we went on a last minute day trip to Oxford. It was my visiting friend's idea that we go, and I'm so glad he suggested it. It's a really pretty city, but my funny (weird) eye ignored the famous old university buildings and instead saw interesting colour combinations on residential houses. More pics from Oxford to come!

29/01/2013

A Tate morning

I always take visiting friends to Tate Modern, but this time we were unlucky as it's was in-between paying exhibitions. They need to update the permanent collection with some more interesting artworks; usually there's a few really good ones on display, but the current selection is pretty boring. The Tanks were also closed so we were really unlucky. Here's hoping more exciting art is on the way for 2013.

28/01/2013

Jump for joy!

I'm so happy the sun has come out to play with us in the past few days. A friend has been in town and I have quite a few pictures to go through and eventually post. Happy Monday!

A song for today:

Sunshine

23/01/2013

The huggers

Go hug someone today!

21/01/2013

The snowy hill of Primrose

London is covered in a blanket of snow again - for the third time in four years. Me likey. It started coming down on Friday and we took a windswept walk up Primrose Hill. I got very excited when I saw a guy walk up the hill with a red umbrella and couldn't believe the steamy windows in the café we took refuge in. For a few seconds there I pretended I was Saul Leiter :)