Friday Off

And there's thunder and rain. Love it! Dark and gloomy...

But these daffodils brighten up the kitchen.......

The Great Niece

How incredibly C U T E is this baby?! No I didn't steal her. We look after her sometimes. Craigski's great niece. She's no trouble at all to look after, not only is she great, she's adorable!

This Evening

Tapped & Packed coffee shop, Tottenham Court Road

Gentleman playing the tuba with flames. Utterly random!

Cycle Style

So I was at the Barbican Centre gift shop browsing around when I spotted the book Cycle Style by Horst Freidrichs - the photographer who took pictures of me last summer.

I picked it up and flicked through thinking I didn't make the final pics, but lo and behold, there I was (eyebags and all)! A full page, not half or quarter, a full page.. Woah! Thank you Horst, what a super dupa book to be part of.


This is the pic (I cropped my head out).

Catch Up

Ahoy there matey!

More random pics from the past few months.

City of Bath

Bath

Home

Our neighbourhood

Metropolitan Cafe @ Bloomsbury shop, Bath

Work

Pizza & beer, Hard Rock pub

Scots! @ Cheapside

Rosenheim Building, Tottenham Court Road. Update - now demolished :-(

Beautiful Bath again. ♥ Bath!

(Pics of moi were taken by Monsieur Craigski, obvs)

Random

Just some random pics from the past few years....

Craig took this pic, aka Craig Solo!

Derelict tea room :(

Our freezer. Mmmmn nutritious!

Image conscious bike with full hair implant

Eley Kishimoto flash print car

The secret's out - Dad is a Stormtrooper

Gaga Rubbish Garbage

(Pssst some of these pics were taken by Sir Craigski)

Vroom Vroom!

Watched Drive the other night with Sarina. Not only did Ryan look hot as always (we luuurrve him!), the film was fantabulous too. Soundtrack was good, very 80s. Check out the font they used for the title (above) and credits. I particularly liked this song...

A Real Hero - College feat. Electric Youth

Thames Fest 2011

We've been going every year for 4 years so far...

Bunting galore!

The 'Don't Ask Me To Smile' look.

The obligatory firework picture, the other 50 were deleted.

Love a bit of leopard.

If you minus the i it becomes REN, I have a friend called Ren.

Jeanius

Just wanted to say, I love the colour of these jeans.

Howdy

Sooo, what's happened since my last blog entry? I, um, turned a year older. I wanted to getaway, so we went to the Cotswolds, a place which is which is famed for it's idyllic beauty. Ha, 'idyllic beauty', sounds like an excerpt from a city break brochure or something...

Me in deep thought - 'How old am I?'

The Cotswolds covers a LARGE area and I was unsure which town/village to visit, so I randomly picked a town called Stroud. Well I thought, anywhere in the Cotswolds must be pretty, right? Well.. not quite. 

The train journey there was promising, especially as we got closer to Stroud. Looking out the window approaching our destination, the scene was very picturesque, a contrast from the concrete ugliness of Swindon, just two stops before.

Unfortunately, when we left the station and entered the town of Stroud, it wasn't quite what I imagined. Although the small high street was surrounded by scenic greenery and hills, it was lined with shops such as Peacocks, 99p Store, Superdrugs, etc, etc. Not the small, independent, specialist and family run businesses that I expected. And no, the streets were not cobbled. Boo. 

We walked around for a bit and checked out the 'Farmers Market', which was a tad disappointing. My heart was sinking. In desperation, Craigos asked one of the locals where was good to visit, she was like "What here?! There's not much here, I would take the bus to Nailsworth if I were you. It's much nicer. It's about a 20 minute ride".

So off to Nailsworth we went! She was right, it was much more Cotswolds-esque. Nailsworth saved the day!

Above: First impressions of Stroud were promising.

On the way to Nailsworth.

Nailsworth

Country car. I want one!

Imagine living in one of these houses - ooh!

Sea NY

Sea NY A/W '11 collection:

big chill

I'm ill, at home, on a sunny day. It's alright though, relaxing on the sofa listening to Pavement and browsing on Etsy for ankle boots, Craigos is trying to catch a tan by the window haha!