The year led on from 2012 as not the very best time of my life but, there were some high points too. It was great fun spending the day exploring London with Tyler, Covent Garden, Leicester Square and the most horrible Chinese soup ever that tasted like last nights washing up water!

Didn’t the year start well? Do you remember?

Yes, much snow and …

Yes, tons more snow and, as if that was not enough ..

Yet even more snow throughout the month.

Come February and I was doing some experimenting in the dark …

Indeed, I was really enjoying my photography

Party time:

Mexico comes to Northampton for Jonny & Matt’s birthday

But, sadly, heartbreak

My friend Charlotte left us

Belgium gave me yet more snow!

A luxury break in June, my first ever water bed

An ambition to capture a good shot of the moon fulfilled

Some wildlife Photography on one of the many visits to Kent throughout the year.

One day in August I looked up at the stars and did what a friendly cricket once instructed me to do, I wished upon a star and, this is when I first started talking to Jo

Right now, the 8,000 miles apart are killing me but, hopefully this will be the last Christmas and New Years Eve with me on my own.

Another luxury break, this time to North Wales

I love finding bargains and negotiating down a price so I get luxury breaks for the price some may be for a tent in a field!

Sadly, this break also marked the end of the Seat Leon which was mechanically written off with the gearbox both myself and Adam had been going on about since we got it two years earlier!

And so, up to date … OK, so I left a lot out. If I am honest, the way I was at the start of the year I am choosing to forget now. I don’t want to and I don’t need to. It was horrible, I know that much and, right now, I don’t feel that way

One lesson learnt this year was, don’t let anyone shit on you. It doesn’t matter how much they’ve pretended to be close before, if they shit on you then, perhaps you are seeing something your generosity of spirit stopped you seeing before.

I hope my readers have a wonderful 2014

xx

The year led on from 2012 as not the very best time of my life but, there were some high points too. It was great fun spending the day exploring London with Tyler, Covent Garden, Leicester Square and the most horrible Chinese soup ever that tasted like last nights washing up water!

Didn’t the year start well? Do you remember?

Yes, much snow and …

Yes, tons more snow and, as if that was not enough ..

Yet even more snow throughout the month.

Come February and I was doing some experimenting in the dark …

Indeed, I was really enjoying my photography

Party time:

Mexico comes to Northampton for Jonny & Matt’s birthday

But, sadly, heartbreak

My friend Charlotte left us

Belgium gave me yet more snow!

A luxury break in June, my first ever water bed

An ambition to capture a good shot of the moon fulfilled

Some wildlife Photography on one of the many visits to Kent throughout the year.

One day in August I looked up at the stars and did what a friendly cricket once instructed me to do, I wished upon a star and, this is when I first started talking to Jo

Right now, the 8,000 miles apart are killing me but, hopefully this will be the last Christmas and New Years Eve with me on my own.

Another luxury break, this time to North Wales

I love finding bargains and negotiating down a price so I get luxury breaks for the price some may be for a tent in a field!

Sadly, this break also marked the end of the Seat Leon which was mechanically written off with the gearbox both myself and Adam had been going on about since we got it two years earlier!

And so, up to date … OK, so I left a lot out. If I am honest, the way I was at the start of the year I am choosing to forget now. I don’t want to and I don’t need to. It was horrible, I know that much and, right now, I don’t feel that way

One lesson learnt this year was, don’t let anyone shit on you. It doesn’t matter how much they’ve pretended to be close before, if they shit on you then, perhaps you are seeing something your generosity of spirit stopped you seeing before.

I hope my readers have a wonderful 2014

xx

Someone, and that’s all I am currently saying on the subject publicly.

My new car (Nissan Qashqai +2) is due next week. It’s in a dark purple colour, a favourite colour of mine I share with all the best people. It’s not affordable and I am horribly in debt but, for once, what the fuck!

Pleased to say that an extra special has been made this week and, on the whole, the house is tidy and clean and a pleasure to be in albeit a little too busy at times and sometimes at the wrong times but, no matter.

Awesome to hear some great mixes going on in the lounge and I don’t just mean the music either. No way am I going to say that ‘it is different this time’ because it is always different until it become the same we expect and have gotten used to. I would just like to hold out a hope that this different becomes the new normal. It would be by far the best outcome for all concerned. Apologies for the cryptic nature of this paragraph.

Got a new batch of coffee today for the Nespresso machine. So far, each has been excellent, do ask for a coffee when you visit.

Finally we have the breakfast bar up in the back room. It doesn’t work particularly well as a breakfast bar but affords us a lot of extra space, practical space both in there and the kitchen, it looks good too. As a bonus, I have not stubbed my toe on the damn thing because it doesn’t sit on the floor in the hallway any more.

I have learnt so much in the past couple of months I never knew I didn’t know and it’s great to know just a few new things about the world. I look forward all the more now to exploring it.

Are we going to win the battle trying to stop Mollie from sleeping where she now likes to sleep? I suspect not. She is a cat, they always win.

It is Danny’s 2nd birthday next Tuesday, I am still undecided what I am doing as yet, we shall see. On Halloween it is Tyler Leeding’s birthday and I have regret we are not friends any longer but wish him a very happy birthday anyway.

Pub Night at the Hopping Hare, Northampton on 9th November, would love to see as many people as possible

Someone, and that’s all I am currently saying on the subject publicly.

My new car (Nissan Qashqai +2) is due next week. It’s in a dark purple colour, a favourite colour of mine I share with all the best people. It’s not affordable and I am horribly in debt but, for once, what the fuck!

Pleased to say that an extra special has been made this week and, on the whole, the house is tidy and clean and a pleasure to be in albeit a little too busy at times and sometimes at the wrong times but, no matter.

Awesome to hear some great mixes going on in the lounge and I don’t just mean the music either. No way am I going to say that ‘it is different this time’ because it is always different until it become the same we expect and have gotten used to. I would just like to hold out a hope that this different becomes the new normal. It would be by far the best outcome for all concerned. Apologies for the cryptic nature of this paragraph.

Got a new batch of coffee today for the Nespresso machine. So far, each has been excellent, do ask for a coffee when you visit.

Finally we have the breakfast bar up in the back room. It doesn’t work particularly well as a breakfast bar but affords us a lot of extra space, practical space both in there and the kitchen, it looks good too. As a bonus, I have not stubbed my toe on the damn thing because it doesn’t sit on the floor in the hallway any more.

I have learnt so much in the past couple of months I never knew I didn’t know and it’s great to know just a few new things about the world. I look forward all the more now to exploring it.

Are we going to win the battle trying to stop Mollie from sleeping where she now likes to sleep? I suspect not. She is a cat, they always win.

It is Danny’s 2nd birthday next Tuesday, I am still undecided what I am doing as yet, we shall see. On Halloween it is Tyler Leeding’s birthday and I have regret we are not friends any longer but wish him a very happy birthday anyway.

Pub Night at the Hopping Hare, Northampton on 9th November, would love to see as many people as possible