Here’s a bunch of photos from the start of 2012 that I never did anything with till now. Remember when it snowed for a day or two?

Nottingham

Stanmer

(Brighton in the summer, the beach gets insanely busy between the piers)

Brighton

Chatham/Rochester

Rye

I’m not really one for resolutions (I prefer to set myself targets all-year round when I need them, rather than all at once when I’ll probably not actually do anything about them) but this year I’m going to do 50/50. That’s a challenge of reading 50 new books, and watching 50 new films. Last year was pitiful for reading for me, so hopefully this’ll pull me out of that funk (less tumblr, Vicky).

I’ll be keeping track of them on Goodreads and Letterboxd but I’ll post about how I’m getting along here from time to time (another thing I need to do more of this year: update this blog). Is anyone challenging themselves to somethig similar this year?

He’s a bit of the work they set us over the summer – it was to do a series of 5 images on some aspect of yourself. I documented some collections of things I have.

Typewriters

Cameras

Zines

Gig tickets

Postcards

A trip to Bristol was lovely. Above is the view we had from our hotel room, which had some great tiki style furniture. I’d never been before, but I’ll definitely be returning, a lot.

Boston Tea Party and Noa.

Breakfast beside the beautiful Lido. It was so good that we returned a couple of days later (Turkish pouched eggs, real mint tea, fruit loaf toast with maple butter).

Playing around in At-Bristol before our planetarium viewing.

The zoo. I wish Brighton had a zoo.

Bristol Museum and Art Gallery.

The botanical gardens were peaceful, and beautiful.

I also wish Brighton had a dedicated cider shop.

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A while ago I started drawing some birdies. Lots of birdies. Just to experiment with my drawing style really, but I’m happy with the direction they’re going in.

That surfer, very brave.

This is the boy’s “this is a BIT windy on this cliff” face.

Whitby
I’ve been going to Whitby since I was tiny, and this is the first time I’ve passed The Magpie Cafe and not seen a massive queue outside, so we finally gave it a try!

Newcastle
Tower of Roast & The Baltic.

York
On the way home we spent a night in York. We stopped at the Guy Fawkes Inn & was upgraded to a swanky 4-poster room with a view of the Cathedral out the window.

We ate tiny but delicious food at The Blue Bicycle , then had cocktails at Dusk and the amazing Evil Eye Lounge. It looks like a tiny drinks shop at the front, but once you go through to the back it’s 3 floors high with beds you can sit on. We had a jug of apple strudel, which was seriously the best thing I think I’ve ever drunk. We also went to Trembling Madness, a huge drinks shop with a medieval style bar above it. The food looked awesome but they weren’t very veggie-friendly :(

I finally had developed & picked up a roll of film I took at least a year ago. They were taken with a fully-manual Zenit camera, so I’m frankly amazed with myself that they’re actually exposed & in focus! (Despite the film actually snapping inside the camera).

Here are some photos I took from the Brighton Festival back in May. Générik Vapeur (a street performing group from France) took a line of white cars through the streets of Brighton before ending up on The Level where they painted them different colours and hung them on a giant washing line. I missed this bit, I was off eating delicious Thai food at Sabai instead, but it was still hung up when we passed on the way home later than night, and for a few days afterwards.