Panorama photos...

I treated myself to a new phone a few weeks ago as my old one was literally falling apart and whilst playing around with the 5megapixel camera at the weekend, I was delighted to find the Panorama setting. I've never taken pictures like this before and it was very exciting! Here are a few photos from Birmingham!

I love finding new ways to take pictures and I love that you get a sense that you are looking around with this setting... I think I'm going to have to play with it some more!

p.s. Don't forget about the giveaway!

Scarborough...

I think I have a Poladroid problem! I still think that Boyfriend's camera takes gorgeous photos but I can't seem to stop myself from taking photos that I know will look great when made to look like Polaroids - is that a bad thing?

We had such a lovely time in Scarborough: the weather was gorgeous, we had icecreams, we went on a sea cruise, we had fish and chips on the sea front, played on the 2p machines and we walked across the beach... I have never seen so many seagulls in one place before though and they were huge!

I've uploaded the best digital photos onto Flickr, so you can see them there if you want...

Flamingo Land!

I don't really know why its taken me so long to post about our day trip to Flamingo Land... especially as I absolutely loved it. The weather was lovely, we had great company (my sister and her boyfriend) and the rides and the zoo were amazing! I love Theme Parks and now so does Boyfriend.

( I want to take him to Alton Towers next, woo)

The best thing about Flamingo Land was that it had alot of my favourite things!

Peacocks and tigers...

Minature trains and awesome rides...

and swings! I love swings - in fact my favourite ride was Flip Flop - essentially a massive spinning swing!

Yeay for great days out and finding new things that Boyfriend and I can do together!!

Chocolate Macarons

After not having the time to go to Laduree when we were in London, we decided that now was the time to try making our own Macarons...

First I should admit that I'm a really messy and somewhat novice baker - I had no idea that the mixture would spread as much as it did or that it would spread even further when in the oven - oops!

So in the end we ended up with 8 large complete macarons that despite not looking the best tasted abolutely amazing!!

and heres the proof that I'm messy!!

Find the recipe I used and pictures of what they should have looked at here - I used a basic chocolate butter icing in the middle. Maybe they will look like that next time I try making them?