Monday 13 October 2014

LIFE: #PhotoAnHour on an October Day

Thanks to a lovely reminder from Louisa, I've managed to take part in another #PhotoAnHour tag along. Like the month previous, it happened to be on another Saturday that we took off from hitting estate sales. Still I took the time to get my hands dirty in the garden and enjoy a bit of a work break. Having just signed up for instagram a little over a week ago, I've been messing around with camera/photograph apps. I had been trying out snapseed but their filters just seem a little too dramatic. So all of these use VSCO filters which I'm preferring, mind you I should probably just stick to one filter to make them all feel samey. 

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10 am // lie ins on a Saturday morning are typically rare, so I think my body was rather ready for one with the result of sleeping pretty much through until 10 am. A bright sunny autumnal morning was already in full swing as the view through my kitchen blinds shows you. 

11 am // after spending most of Thursday and Friday trying to work out that band "that sounded like the editors, circa 2005 but not as miserable" I finally remembered it was the departure and needed to get my fix. I was working in the garden and my trusty samsung mp3 (or maybe mp4 I donno) player (which is probably as old as the album - I think I had it at uni) always comes outside with me. Anyway, my love for 2005 British indie rock still runs deep. 
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12 pm // One of my big jobs in the garden was a bit of a weeding session - I actually hate weeding. It's as bad as folding the laundry after doing a wash. But it's one of those things that needs to be done. Garden looks all the nicer for it too mind.

1 pm // A hungry stomach calls so a quick break of a cheese toastie and playing one of our favorite bands - Clairy Browne and the Bangin' Racketts.

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2 pm // Time to tidy up - one full bin and one full bag of garden waste for the city to take away come Monday. (hey look at me being grown up with a garage too). Hmm so what did I get up to in the garden bar weeding I can hear you ask. Well I stuck in some more border edging, made a border somewhere else, dug up, separated and transplanted some grasses around and did some pruning. I like to pretend to know what i'm talking about ... i'm just making up this gardening lark as I go along.

3 pm // Having a much needed brew out of my Star Trek mug and having a quick read - a book I actually won via Goodreads advanced book giveaways. The Bones of Paris is a thriller set in late 1920's (you guessed it) Paris and while i've only just started it, so far so good.

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4 pm // traveling north on the freeway heading to the postie office. We might have moved five miles south and to another city but we still drive to the same post office mainly for the self service machines (which actually seem to confuse so many people). Anyways, gorgeous blue skies on the old i-75. Actually this is the bridge that the HUGE puddle was around this August that you might remember from my great flood post. Luckily it was dry today because I don't own a boat.

5 pm // getting online, poking tweetdeck, watching Captain Piccard in Star Trek TNG on BBC America. For some reason our TV looks really small, it's not and excuse my messy coffee table.

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6 pm // Simmering up a chicken tomato (and onion, always gotta throw in onion) balti curry. I can't say i've made this recipe before and it turned out rather tasty if I do say so myself. All homemade too, it's a bit of a thing of mine.

7 pm // Finding things i'd forgotten about under the coffee table. The Beatrix Potter Alphabet cross stitch chart was a find at an estate sale a good couple (or even more) weeks ago. Eventually i'll get around to stitching one (or two ... or more) of them. They are too cute not too.

So there you have it, the rest of the night was spent watching more TNG until Dr Who came on and pretty much writing up this post and catching up on some blog reading.

If you're interested in tagging along next time make sure to follow Jane on either twitter or via her blog for the next #photoanhour date.

So tell me, how was your weekend?

30 comments:

  1. I've never MADE a curry before... I kind of want to try. That looks delicious!

    Sarah
    Midwest Darling

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    1. Wednesdays are our weekly (homemade) curry night typically but we fancied having two last week. It's one of my favorite things to make, typically either an Indian or a Thai curry.

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  2. I have just bought a whole bunch of Beatrix Potter knitting patterns!!! They are amazing, can't wait to get started on them :) I love being nosey and seeing what people get up to!

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    1. There's Beatrix Potter knitting patterns?! That sounds awesome!

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  3. Beatrix Potter cross stitch - how cute! I used to cross stitch a while ago and made a Mrs. Tiggy Winkle picture that I promptly gave away. I think I have some half finished nature scene somwhere as well! Maybe I need to find myself something small to cross stitch again, for some variety!

    I love one photo per hour posts, need to do one myself at some point!

    Have a great week ahead!
    Cecilia x

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    1. I've been cross stitching since I was about 5 but never got around to doing any Beatrix Potter designs even though I grew up on her stories and visiting her house in the Lakes. Been wanting to stitch one of her characters for about the last year but never found any patterns I really wanted, then out of the blue, one pops up!

      I have about three cross stitch designs on the go at the moment - lots of little Christmas designs for cards - need to get around to finishing them off.

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  4. Ah,, I didn't realise it was an actual planned event. I just did my own random one :)
    I love these types of post, as I'm nosey and love to see how people s[end their days.

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    1. Yeah the #photoanhour link up's been going on every day once a month (on various days) throughout the year - just for most of them i've forgotten about them after it's too late lol.

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  5. I already did my groceries for tonight and now I'm seriously regretting not buying what I need for curry ... Sounds so delicious!

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    1. That was actually meant to be a red thai curry but I forgot I didn't have any coconut milk. So having a thorough search through all my Indian cookbooks, a balti curry it was! Normally I have everything and more for a curry, been slack the last couple of weeks with my shopping lists!

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    2. yum! Do you make your own spice mix? Any recipes in particular that you use? I love Indian but have never quite successfully made it ... something about the spices I feel.

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    3. I don't really make any spice mixes - none of the recipes I use tend to call for mixes. I do make my own garam masala paste. You do though need a big stock and variety of all the spices (fresh or otherwise) - some are harder to find than others. Most of the recipes I use come from a 1930's recipe book from an restaurant in India that I found at an estate sale and from the Complete Book of Indian Cooking by Shehzad Husain & Rafi Fernandez.

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  6. I always forget about photoanhour until it's well over half way through the day! Your day certainly looks a lot more interesting (even though it included weeding!) than mine probably was :) x

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    1. Oh i'm sure we always find how other people spend their days more interesting than we do our own. I really suck at not doing anything, so I try and keep myself busy in whatever way I can.

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  7. haha I lol'd at the boat comment :) People underestimate the power of sarcasm in blog posts!
    10am is always my wake up time... I'm old, I need my beauty sleep ;)
    Sounds like the garden is coming along quite nicely! And that curry does sound very tasty too.

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    1. Points to you for noticing the sarcasm and actually reading all the words!

      You know me I love my curries!

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  8. Ooh I haven't cross-stitched in years but I always get the urge to do one around this time of year! Well done for doing this photo challenge though, I always have good intentions but then forget to take any photos after like three hours!

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    1. I always tend to forget until midday and then I find it's pointless trying to catch up lol.

      After having a break i've been cross stitching more in the last couple of weeks, although I struggle with finding the balance between reading and cross stitching.

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  9. I really need to get on board with this photo an hour malarkey but every time I try to I forget after about three photos. Useless! Although, to be fair a lot of my days are pretty damn boring so I don't know how interesting it would be! I'm so jealous that you have a garden and get to be out there gardening away! I actually find weeding oddly therapeutic. When we moved as a family to my parents' current house the back garden was a mess with over grown plants and weeds everywhere! I think I must have spent that whole summer helping out by weeding and pulling up plants!

    Debi x

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    1. I have to admit, I always think my days are very boring - garden, craft, food oriented rather than constantly going out and doing things. I do love having a garden but keeping up with the weeding is a bit of my down fall, especially when we have neighbours that don't garden/weed so they always come through the fence which is a bit of a downer.

      But it is a great feeling when you're done and you can see how much you've got done. Hopefully when I get some more flowers in their next year they'll cover the ground more and reduce pesky weeds finding their way through!

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  10. I couldn't love these posts more. It must be the nosy mare in me.

    I feel simultaneously jealous that I don't have a garden and pleased that I don't because it looks like too much hard work.

    Please tell me you have a Mrs Tiggywinkle in there. She was my favourite. We got a cat once and all had to put in names for her. I totally chose Mrs Tiggywinkle. Needless to say it was not chosen in the end.

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    1. Tiggywrinkle would have been an excellent choice for a kitty name and yes, there a chart for her (she's under F - I can't find the logical between the characters and the letter they are being stitched with I will be honest), I've been eyeing her up already alongside Miss Moppet and the mouse from a Tale of Gloucester.

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  11. Wow 10am! I don't think I ever sleep in that late EVER. Even when I fall asleep at 2 in the morning my body wakes up around 7am all the time. Weeding doesn't sound like fun, but I'm glad your garden is looking much nicer now! :) My weekend was great! I finally got my pumpkin to carve... yay!!

    Jessica
    the.pyreflies.org

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    1. 10am use to be my regularish wake up time, especially on a weekend when I wasn't up at 6am catching a bus to work. Even more so when I was a uni student and my sleeping pattern was messed up - that and hangovers didn't help!

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  12. You're making me feel guilty that since the middle of summer I've left the garden to go wild - I know I need to sort it but all the rain makes it impossible (that's my excuse and I am sticking to it.)
    But I love posts like this as I get to peek into peoples lives. I would like more shots from around the new house though, please. That would satisfy the nosy me even more. Thank you. x

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    1. But see you've done all the decorating inside that we haven't - saving up for that, so for me, gardening is the free thing for me to actually feel like i'm doing something with my house! But in honesty, there's lots of bare patches in my borders, it's pretty much just soil in lots of places and i've totally forgotten about the front garden!

      I do need to do some more room tours I will be honest. Although I get shy about sharing my house because it's not super fancy or anything lol.

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  13. Gah I really need to get out there and weed my garden too. I always tell myself that I am going to stay on top of it but I always end up letting it get overgrown. I am definitely excited to see how your garden looks when it is in full bloom next year!

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  14. I love posts like these! They are so fun to read and I like being a bit nosy :) The curry looks amazing!! Recipe post please :) xx

    Jasmin Charlotte | UK Lifestyle Blog

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  15. My weekend was pretty good. Went to the Eastern Michigan game on Saturday and watched them win. Caught a ship coming into Grand Haven on Sunday (that was a picture I've been waiting for). Went to some covered bridges (if you haven't been to them...go!).

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  16. That looks like a pretty good day - sometimes it's nice to have a day where you're not just rushing about all the time. Ta very much for the shout out and I'll pop a reminder out for everyone next month as well :-) xx

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