Happy Easter!

Easter means a 4 day weekend! Time for a visual update and a vow to get back to this with more useful content more often.


Thats me. I got a new camera, an Olympus OMD EM10. Its awesome. More soon on that...


First sunshine cider of 2014 (and an afternoon of six nations rugby)
February storms brought us a beautiful sunny sandy beach in Southsea

Wine tasting evening at Kitsch n Dor was epic

More board games
Springtime bike rides

Loving Southsea in the sunshine
Happy Easter weekend
Peaceful Southsea Beach
Blue skies
Pastels
Back to the New Forest for wedding meetings and portraits

Also- More space lectures, an Ignobel Awards evening at the uni, groupon dinner at Steki greek restaurant in Southsea, amazing Turkish dinner with the girls at Istanbul in Southsea, chilled out evening at the Garage Lounge, Brighton catch ups, and going on stage with Derren Brown.

Sounds alright yeah? Its also been stressful, crappy and worrying, but hoping some good news is on the horizon next week (though the way things have been going it could just as easily be bad news)

Weekend Wander

Southsea is best in the summer, the faded seaside resort buzzes in the sunshine, with families, students, hipsters and chavs alike, all laid out on the grassy common and strolling on the seafront, the smell of barbecues on the breeze. Winter is mostly angry traffic, foghorns, discount shopping and crashing waves. But a break in the weather pulls everyone out, a cold sunny sunday and we hit the prom again, dogwalkers, kids and runners drawn out for the fresh sea air. We all love living by the sea.

Our seafront has been battered these past few weeks, the winter storms bringing waves smashing over the seawalls and shingle up onto the road. The beach is sandy, the bandstand flooded and the benches, shelters and pier beaten up. The rain stopped today and the people came out again, picking through the shells, starfish and sponges washed up onto the pavement, fighting against the determined winds.

We went ourselves, to explore and take photos, blasted by sand and an abundance of sea air. We met friends for a pretty good carvery lunch at the Jolly Sailor (thanks Groupon!) and then came home again to a log fire and TV catchup. Ace Sunday. :)