Henley in Arden

Fact: Henley-in-Arden is in the top ten of the cutest places in England I've ever visited.

Whilst we were away for the week we stayed in a hotel just outside of the town and almost every day we either walked or drove through it... and each time I couldn't get over how cute and very English it looked.

I still can't get over how gorgeous the buildings along the main street were with the painted wood, the cute lamps and amazing windows that weren't quite straight.

Happy weekend!!

Where to start...

Yesterday I got 148 photos developed, some from the past week and a couple from York with Adele and I have no idea where to start sharing them, I haven't even put all of the last black and white diana mini film on Flickr yet... I'm not complaining though, I am delighted! I can't believe I've taken so many photos already this year... YEAY!

Anyway, the lovely Elizabeth suggesting closing my eyes and picking one at random, so today's post is going to be about doors and doorways... they seem to be my new fascination.

{The perfect yellow door, Henley in Arden. Diana mini with Lomography Colour Negative ISO 400 film This is totally going in my shop btw, eventually...}

{Church Door, Stratford Upon Avon. Yashica Samurai with Lomography Colour Negative ISO 400 film}

{Doorway in Stratford. Yashica Samurai with Lomography Colour Negative ISO 400 film}

{The prettiest door in Bourton-on-the-Water surrounded by my favourite - Costwolds Brick. Happy sigh. Yashica Samurai with Lomography Colour Negative ISO 400 film}

I think I'm going to have to start using my yashica samurai more, its the perfect companion to a lomography camera as it has a great zoom feature (which I do miss sometimes) and you can take double the amount of photos per roll which is fun, especially as I love the square diana mini's too much to use it as a half frame camera anymore...

p.s. Colour photos I still adore you, that yellow is unbelievably perfect!

Bourton on the Water Part 1

For 3 years of my childhood we lived in Oxfordshire and one of my favourite places that I remembered visiting from that time was Bourton-on-the-Water (the website says the Venice of the Cotswolds, I like that description!).

As it was absolutely glorious weather at the weekend, it was understandably busy with tourists and families visiting to paddle in the water so of course we joined in...

Luckily, Bourton was just as cute and lovely as I remembered and we had the best day out!

Along the River in York...

Today is the first day of my 11 days off work and already we've had breakfast outside, I've got two loads of washing out on the line (I love having a clothes line) and we're about to go to town for vintage shopping and lunch, yeay!! Although looking through these photos, I could quite happily go back to York and walk along the river again with a mint choc chip ice cream!

I love that they all have a slightly purple shade to them - has anyone ever experienced that with Ilford XP2 film before? I don't know if its because it was so sunny or if it would have happened during development...

We're going away with family and visting friends next week so I have some amazing guest posts coming up to kep my blog company. I can't wait to relax, take lots of photos, see the people I love and forget about work for the week.

Happy Easter and happy weekend!! See you in 11 days!