A good week.

It has been a good week, an even mixture of work and play and only one interaction with the hoover :).  A morning with Yvonne and putting the world to rights and planning our girlie weekend escape - we decided what is good for the boys is good for the girls - he! he!  Another day spent with another friend (NIna 1) where we bored each other silly with photography talk - wonderful :) the only shame was it was raining too much to actually do any photography, so we settled for a pub lunch instead :)  Others friends have invited us to join them on a weekend to France, so off to tea with them on Friday to plan details and last but not least I believe the running bug has finally come along and bit me.  My running partner (Nina 2) and I try to go every other day, be it am or pm (depending on my shifts) and we never want to go especially if it is raining, but we always go.  So Wed evening we dragged ourselves out and just stayed around the village and we were happy that we had reached 4.8miles (she has a watch that tells us the distance etc).  Anyway she rang me the next day to say that as she got to her house the watch registered 5miles!! (I have to run to her house first). We were both so ecstastic :D.  So we repeated it Fri night and again this morning.  I feel like we have reached a huge milestone.  My 6 mile run in March seems very achievable now, just need to start collecting sponsors now.

So to finish off the post here are some images from this weeks 366 project.

Surprise surprise a tulip!!

 Seriously abandoned

 More tulips

Enjoying an ice cream in Padstow

Yesterday 366 image

I hadn't planned to put my 366 project on here but I think I will end up doing every now and then. So here is my image from yesterday.  I often see photos of glasses and like them and they were one of the things I wanted to have a go at.  I like the two below but couldn't get just what I wanted so will have to revisit again.

 Manual mode, ss 1/4, f8, ISO 100, 90mm.

Manual mode, ss 1/4, f5.6, ISO 100, 90mm

A new month

Well I'm not the only one thinking 'where did January go', not long til Christmas now I guess lol (who's groaning and cursing me now eh?)  So what happened in January, ..... our Amanda turned 17, had knee surgery, got her driving licence and wait for it had her first lesson with Mick Monday evening, she really loved it and did well apparently.  Bernadette has gone back and been home for a weekend and will be home again on the 15th for a few days.  It is during half term, so Mick and I have taken a couple of days off work as well, so we will get a couple of family days out :).  Mick finally shaved his beard off ....whippee.... and once again resembles my husband, which makes me a very happy teddy.  As for me - I have kept up with my 366 project, some days better than others, still enjoying it though. I haven't really been managing my time very well, still spend too much time on here and thinking about things.  Though I did start sorting out my craft room and have decided to sell a lot of my bits as I never use them, so someone else may as well have them and put them to good use.   I haven't done much blogging this month which is not so good, so I need to improve on that as well.
Here are some photos from January, these have been part of my 366 project.

Sat in the car whilst in between calls at work, it was raining for a change so I decided to play with shutter speeds and passing traffic!

Here we ago again with numerous sets of L plates that DO NOT stay attached to the car when moving.  Bring back the old tie on ones.

A trip to the Eden Project with Yvonne last Friday, can't wait to see these bulbs in flower.

Struggled this day, but Lord of the Rings came to my rescue.