Reasons to be cheerful

I really love our mailbox at the moment, such nice things are arriving through it... I saw the Keel's Simple Diary over on Cecilie's blog Bakerby and bought one straight away. It immediately put a smile on my face as I was told why I had chosen the brown cover. I also joined Lovefilm last week and got two dvds through this morning; a Cary Grant movie and an Ozu film I've been wanting to see for years. Woohoo!

His & his to be

We like plush toys in this house and it's been a while since we got some new ones. The hubby went for Pistol Pedro for himself and I got a cute little bear from Micoucou for our soon-to-arrive little fellow (although I can't say that three months feel like soon...). I thought it would look so cute in the corner of his cot.

Mindscapes

Can you believe it... I actually managed to go out on Friday evening, meeting up with friends to see the Walking in my mind exhibition at the Hayward. But alas, it was yet again another disappointing viewing. It used to be that there were always two or three good big exhibitions on in London every month, now you're lucky if there are that many in a year. Is it that I'm getting jaded as I get older? I hope not. Anyway, it was nice to get out of the house so I shan't complain.

And yes. I'm joining in on the bigger picture trend sweeping through blogland. It had to be done :)

Of an afternoon

I chose Marnie (hilarious trailer thanks to Hitchcock himself!), had a lemonade ice-lolly and thought I might have found a mask for warding of swine flu - I'll just simply scare people away with it! Happy Friday!

Nothing much to do...

... but flop around the house, and that goes for both Little Mo and me. Bad weather and being in the high-risk group of catching swine flu (I'd probably be OK if I did catch it but I can't take any medication being pregnant and all) means that I'm pretty much house bound. Shame I've already watched my Cary Grant DVD box set. Maybe it's time for some old Ozu films again?

Abstract & distract

I got a bit distracted whilst cooking dinner last night. Luckily I didn't burn anything :)

Afternoon tea time

This weekend has been about food and friends and we started it with an afternoon tea session here at home on Friday afternoon. I guess one advantage with the summer having gone elsewhere is that cream tea can put a smile on everyone's faces, even if it is July and ice-cream would be more appropriate. How was your weekend?

Back home

Eeeek, it's soon time to go back to regular posting. The past couple of weeks have been different as I haven't been taking pictures in quite the same way, knowing I had a back log of posts to get through. As you can see I've kept my 30mm lens on the whole time since we got back from France. I think it makes everything look just that little bit nicer. 

Happy Friday peeps!

Winter on film

Looking at these my love for film has been re-ignited. At first I thought they looked a bit "meh!", but I love the texture and grain that you get with film; it makes digital photography look so cold and flat. Speaking of cold, these pics are from February (see, there's no mad rush with film!) - a great month made all the better by a visit from Sandra & Johan.

France on film

So I shot a roll of film when we were away. I stupidly didn't trust my regular SLR to expose correctly so I backed everything up digitally. I won't be doing that again, it ruins the surprise and the excitement of having the roll developed. These are some details from the house, I promise this will be the last France post! I'll show you some other pics from the roll tomorrow, can you believe it sat in the camera for five months... 

Stop-off before sail-off

On the way home we stopped off for one night in St Malo and it's a shame we had so little time there. Our hotel room was right on the beach and after the long drive north we only had enough energy for a meal and breathing in the sea air from our balcony. The meal was pretty poor, but the view and the sunset was beautiful. I really really really want to go back there and spend some more time exploring the city and the beaches. One day.

Blast from the past

Alors, it's back to France again I'm afraid, I hope you don't mind! I forgot to mention that the house we stayed in is my mother-in-law's summer house and that the hubby spent his childhood summers there. On one of the days we were there we had torrential downpours and to pass the time he fished out books, toys and drawings from back in the day. The family would spend lots of time making things, something I never did as a kid... I think that's why I'm still not very good at working with my hands. Well, I'm going to make sure that spending hours making things as a family is something we in turn will do too :) Happy Friday!