I’ve wanted to play around with tilt-shift for awhile but not many of my pictures have been taken from an elevated perspective. Luckily yesterday I went to stalk people in Bluewater so I could get some. Actually my main motivation was doughnuts but picture taking was a close second.

It is far from perfect however I will be sure to bore the crap out of you guys in the coming months as I practice. Stalking people on the cliffs will be great for this in the summer. So long as I don’t encounter masturbating man again…

My house is very white. Apart from painting it white again when I moved in I haven’t done even the remotest bit of decorating. I still have a photo frame awaiting pictures from Canada..over a year after the fact.

Today I added some colour to the walls.

I settled for this instead of painting blackboard paint all over the house and going nuts with some chalk. I am saving that for the bedroom..

It is not much of a holiday considering what everyone else around me has booked but hey looks like I get to spend two nights in Paris!

Anyone who gets that is filthy and it’s probably why I love you.

• Got out of bed. Seriously guys, this is a big one..my bed is a bitch and never likes to let me go.
• Got sucked into a drama worthy of the Christmas Day episode of Eastenders. Dramatic workmates always love to bring their drama to the yard.  I would prefer milkshake if I am honest but does anyone ever bring that to the yard? Nooooooo.
• Was asked for sex advice by a 17 year old boy who is having some..issues..with his girlfriend. Do you have any idea how horrifying it is to talk to a teenage boy about orgasms? Do you?! Especially when it is your bosses son.
• Went for a walk along the beach and took some photographs. I forget sometimes that the beach is there until a pretty sunset smacks me in the face and reminds me to be grateful.
• Made tea & ate gingerbread.

I have decided that all I want from life is a constant supply of tea, the odd cake like product, walk on the beach and my camera. Perhaps if I could have a funny winter hat as well because I really dig those. Oh and also a pet llama if that is not asking too much.Oh Oh and an episode of Poirot here and there but I think that might be getting greedy.

During a game of Articulate (<3!) last night I found out that a bunch of close (and not all that young) friends do not have the faintest idea who the following people are:

-Greta Garbo

-Alfred Hitchcock

-Steve McQueen

-Grace Kelly

This breaks my heart into thousands of little pieces internet.

Tomorrow I return to the other side of England. It has been a great and unusually stress-free time so I am a little sad. Mostly though I think the sadness is due the fact that my sister makes amazing food and I have to leave that behind. Not without raiding the fridge/cupboards first though!

Bristol also has way better bridges than Kent. It is so cool it is even on twitter.

It is a good job this holiday period has involved a lot of outside time because holy shit I have not stopped eating since I got back. Not once.

Ok forgive me because I am going to the land of no Internet so I will post this now even though it is somewhat premature.

When I started this decade I was fifteen years old. Fuck. It feels more like twenty years have passed rather than ten and I am guessing you guys feel the same.

I was also still living in Spain and it would be another year or so before I left my mother there and returned back to England to finish my education which I had been pulled out of three years before. I would crown that the best decision I have made this decade. Nice one 16 year old me!

In this decade I finished my GCSEs, A-levels, went to Uni, changed majors, graduated and re-enrolled for more which is due to be complete in the beginning of the new decade which is a good way to start it I think. I also met some of the best people a person could ever hope to meet. One of whom would cause a lot of pain but that is just part and parcel of learning right?

I think it would be the decade of learning for me because I did so much of it. I look forward to learning more.

It was the decade of Internet, computers and discovering just how much of a nerd I can be. I also went to some of the most beautiful places in the world and the next decade promises so much more of that.

I worked as a bar maid, store assistant, life guard, chef, waitress, cashier and an estate agent (among others) and I cheated death a few times.

I climbed, caved, hiked, rode, cycled, ran and discovered a love for TKD and squash.

There were many low moments but, looking back, I think the highs outweighed those, and  I hope I can say that again at the end of the next decade.

I lost a best friend. I hope more than anything I will not lose another.

Looking back I am proud of the last ten years. I think the majority of the decisions I made were the right ones and I wouldn’t change any of them..except maybe to tell myself to stop worrying so much about money and travel more. Again, I hope at the end of the next decade I can be proud of my decisions.

So, on to a new decade. I hope the last one was a good one overall for you? I hope that we can all say that the next one is good when it closes.

I was driving home from a friends house tonight and as I came off of the dual carriageway there was the most amazing moon sat over Whitstable. Actually it was more like it was sat ON Whitstable it was so low. As soon as I got in I grabbed the camera and went to the beach because that is where most of the best shots of the moon are to be found (sadly it has shrunk quite considerably by then).

The only thing is that at 10pm the beach isn’t lit and I generally try to avoid it because it is where all the drunk trouble makers congregate of an evening (even Whitstable has those!) so you generally end up getting abuse hurled at you and sure enough as soon as I get to the beach I see two drunk people weaving around, they spy me and are immediately HEY GIRL WITH THE CAMERA!! HEY YOU!! So I am thinking oh great here we go as they walk up to me and then they are say omg isn’t this moon magical, you are taking pictures of the moon too? Great, our camera is rubbish, can you email us your shots??!

So of course I agree and honest to god, it was like I had agreed to give my kidney to their dying mother because the next thing I know they are wishing me a life full of happiness and joy and they did a special dance as they wondered off down the alleyway. It was pretty awesome I have to say.

Sadly they didn’t realise that just because I have a good looking camera doesn’t mean I can take good looking shots especially in the dark beach alleyway..in the freezing cold. I sort of climbed over a wall into someone’s garden to find a surface I can rest my camera on to minimise hand shake (Yes I too am wondering when I will get round to getting a tripod/remote combination) and took a couple of shots before running away when I knocked over some plant pots in the garden and the light came on meaning I was totally busted.

So sorry mystery drunk people, I am about to email you the following shot which doesn’t do anything any justice. Also sorry house people if I made you think there was some creepy person lingering outside your house. I am not creepy. Honest.

It is the 21st of December today! Know what that means?

It is the shortest day of the year and do you know what THAT means?

Summer is almost here!