Halloween

This is my favourite Halloween window display. It's been a lovely afternoon going out with the lovely man, meeting friends and eating my first mince pie of the season.

You can see the mince pie on Flickr but here is another picture which I called "Night Fever":

I've unpacked half my stuff so I need to pack it again for our hols. I can't believe that we'll be in Berlin in about 24 hours! Hopefully we'll be able to continue our blogs but if not, we'll be back posting at the weekend. Have a good one!

Woohoo!

Our holiday is getting closer! I've arrived at the lovely man's house and we fly to Berlin on Sunday. I never had a chance to take photos today as I was getting stuff ready or travelling with a lot of baggage. I'm beginning to get excited...

Hope you're all having a great Friday. Not sure how much I'll be able to catch up with you all this week but I'll be thinking of you.

Using up the veg

Here's tonight's dinner. It's been a quiet day at home for me. This is a curry made of all the vegetables I suddenly remembered that I had in the fridge. I've still got quite a lot to use up before I head to Edinburgh tomorrow. Our hols are coming up - Berlin on Sunday! Hooray!

I'm hoping I can find room in the freezer tomorrow for soup. I already have masses of it in there - very yummy it is too!

Now back to being quietly excited about hols...

I'm home much later than usual so I'm headed for bed. This is a lensbaby image. It's my favourite of the photos I've taken today. I hope you're all having a great sleep. Night night xxx

It's the cherub again

Well here it is, through one more hoop of renovation. It disappeared for some time and reappeared looking like this:

This is on its return - about a month late - where the paint had been removed.

The original looked like this:

When looked at close, it was a bad gloss job. They took it away and removed the gloss and now they've done another bad gloss job in a colour that doesn't match what's around it. I don't know if they plan on a gradual renovation of the rest of it but it's taken from July till almost November so far.... Efficiency eh?

It was another grey and wet day. Not one where I experimented photographically much. Here's another picture taken today which shows what it looked like earlier when I was out in the relentless rain.

I've had a nice evening cooking for my friend K who is now off to a local pub quiz. I'm rubbish except at some of the obscure stuff in quizzes.

Hope your week is going well. Almost half-way now!

Same cafe with weekday man...

I got out to meet K today for coffee. I also had really delicious black pudding on toast! I took a few pictures, all of K and using the lensbaby. This one is my favourite. They were all high ISO as, even at 3.30 this afternoon in a cafe with large glass windows, it was too dark. It's been a horribly grey and dark day apart from a little sun in the morning. I've been feeling a bit low and I don't think the dark helps. Roll on our hols - Sunday's trip to Berlin is long overdue. I definitely need a change of scene.

I posted a few more pictures of K on my Flickr page which I quite liked.

Hope your week has started off well.

Nice soup - boring photo

After the lovely man left me today I got busy with the Wii-fit - hulaing like crazy - and then I made some tasty soup. It was a lot thicker than it looks here as the lentils, split peas and rice had sunk to the bottom. It was really tasty and so were the rolls which are my own homemade ones - white with a bit of oatmeal.

Now to find something to watch on telly....