Had a lovely Christmas this year… spent it with the whole family in Dorset. You just can’t beat my mum’s Christmassy efforts!

Decorated in style :D

Christmas at home.

Yes, it is me.

I took this about 2 weeks ago, and haven’t got round to uploading it yet. Here goes!

Cloudy yet calm...

Went out snapperooning in Poole last week, don’t ask me the day. Got a few good shots, so here they are…

Lady contemplates at Evening Hill...

Sunset fishing...

I’ve been working on designing a website for a project called “Time to Change Dorset” for a while now, and finally the website is up and running www.timetochangedorset.co.uk .

To help promote the campaign, and the website, Time to Change Dorset turned up at this year’s Beach Live festival on Weymouth seafront last weekend. The weather was glorious, i managed a tan (well i had a white strap mark from my watch) and i also met up with my good friend Chris afterwards.

The day didn’t go exactly to plan, and i did end up gatecrashing some great friends of mine who have the most gorgeous son.

All in all however, the promotion of Time to Change was a big success! I acquired some free beer mats which i intend to place in all the local pubs to help promote the cause. Any excuse for a pub crawl!!!!

Did you know that?

Promoting the campaign...

It’s been a little bit of a whirlwind few days, which i’ll go into one day soon. Mum and i managed to escape the commotion and went for a day trip out to Swanage. It was a nice day, good weather, and i did manage to enjoy myself, albeit at the expense of £10 wasted on a “grabber” machine in the amusement arcade trying to win a Peppa Pig. Not wanting to give up, and being sure statistically that one of the claws would be a tighter grip, i kept on tenaciously, but as always was so easily fooled…

Later on i managed to find a Peppa Pig in a niche boutique which was £11.25… so i guess you could say i didn’t waste over its value!

Mum and i managed to resist eating naughty, but ravishingly yummy food in this new place called ‘Chococo’ after much deliberation. We miraculously concurred that opting for the healthy option of brown bread sandwiches (get us, not even white bread!!) would be the wise option. We did so well… sort of… until we returned later in the afternoon to Chococo for their chocolate fondue to share. Oh well. Life’s too short!

We made a quick trip to the railway, to see the old steam trains. My Grandparents used to take us on the ‘Santa Special’ as children around Christmas time, so it holds many fond memories. Among the trains, and people, i spotted this little luggage trolley, and decided i would snap it!

Paddington Bear comes to stay!