Wednesday and Thursday, snow and a mouse

Yesterday I woke up to a little bit of snow, and my cat had gone out in it :)

Yesterday's photo was of her skidding back into the yard.

Today she bought back a gift, but we let it go again. This is my husband's photo before he let it escape.

My photo of the day after I'd caught the mouse the cat brought in, I don't think Termie is too impressed, as I spoilt her fun.

Tuesday at Newcastle, 4/2/15

Today I spent a few hours at Newcastle with my husband.

Newcastle is quite a large city in the north of england, we visited the city centre. The centre surprised me as it's now quite a contrast of shops and buildings. The buildings are now a real mix of the old and the new. I also found a real contrast with the shops, there are lots of shops for wealthy people and lots of shops for people with little money, but not many inbetween shops.

While in Newcastle we also had a burger in Burger King. I had a voucher for two whopper meals for £8.49. The burgers tasted nice, but both me and my husband were disappointed about how small they have become.

While in town I also took my photo of the day;

It shows a statue in Newcastle, which always reminds me of a giant pen holder. On the right in front of the modern buildings you can see part of Newcastle's old medieval wall.

It seemed appropriate for my photo of the day, as it shows the old and the new.

Monday Monday, 2 February 2015

Today has felt a long day, in which I seem to have struggled to get jobs done. 

I have started looking for a home insurance quote, I use a combination of different comparison sites. Today I looked at Compare the market, I went through Tocashback, http://www.topcashback.co.uk/ref/frances10 so I got a couple of pound for searching. I've got until next monday so I'll do a little bit of searching each day using different price comparison sites.

I also went down to the sea with my husband, as he wanted to see how rough it was as he was thinking of going fishing. He decided against it, but I took my photo of the day there. 

Finally I had to go to work, although it wasn't a bad shift as it was pretty quiet.

My weekend end of January start of feb, a day off and a day of work.

This weekend has been a tale of two halves, yesterday was my day off and apart from getting some shopping and taxing my husband's car I spent it catching up on jobs around the house and relaxing.

As a result of all that relaxation I hadn't yet taken a photo, for my photo a day bucket list challenge, so I decided to take this one of my pear tree. It's bigger than my apple tree so gets a lot more fruit, but it has more branches so I don't think it's quite as photogenic as my apple tree. When he saw this my husband laughed as I've took quite a few shots of trees this month, but I do like trees.

Today I've been at work all day, and it's been a long, busy day. When I came in from work my husband suggested we go down to the beach so I could take some photos. My favourite is this one of the moon in the daylight.

I also liked these two of the waves, it's the cold north sea and we didn't think it looked that rough. Although compared to seas on holiday it is very rough, and of course much colder. I certainly wouldn't want to swim in it, although I used to in summer when I was much younger.

Last Week of January 2015

Well last week was the last week of January, and it feels to me like it's flown past.

Here in the Uk we have car tax, which is supposed to pay for the upkeep of our road system. I had to laugh as on saturday we went into our local post office to tax our car from February and the woman behind the counter said we couldn't. I was confused as I knew you normally can a few days before the end of the month, and when I asked her if we really had to come back the next day she looked confused. It turned out she didn't know what the date was. Once she realised she let us tax it.

Anyway back to last weeks photos :).

Monday's photo of the day was my apple tree, as you can see it's still not ready to start growing buds :).

Tuesday's photo is a macro of my tablets, I love the effect.

Wednesday's photo is a chess knight, it's a glass one and I'm pleased how it appears to glow in the photo.

Thursday's photo was a bit of a joke one. I live in the north of England and the news said that we had lots of snow, as you can tell we didn't it was actually south of here.

Friday I went to nearby Morpeth with my dad, it was a sunny, cold day. We went for a walk down by the river, which was lovely. I chose as my photo though, this great one of all the birds puffed up to stay warm.

The weekend January 23 to 25 2015

Sorry I'm behind again with my posts, it's been a busy week with work and my husband's tax return which I'm pleased to say is all finished and submitted.

Last weekend I was at work for pretty much all of it, but I still found time to take my photos.

Friday's photo is of my cat Termie relaxing, she's on our glass coffee table as it's in front of the fire. She has a hard life, I think she only manages 22 hours sleep a day.

Saturday's photo is of picturesque Seaton Sluice harbour, it's where my husband launches his fishing boat from. It's a tidal river, so he only ever has about a 6 hour window to get her in or out. Under the drainage pipe, you can see a small with on a swing.

Sunday's photo is a macro of my beetle model, it's an old tonka toy. When I first shared this on the writing site Bubblews it caused some controversy as no one could tell what it was :). Thankfully the photo is a lot clearer here on blogger, you can even see the steering wheel if you look closely.

Fourth week of January 2015, first few days

Well last week was a busy week as I was back at work, I'm also still trying to earn more money online with a long term goal of going selfemployed.

I'm pleased to say I'm continuing with my bucket list / dream board challenge of taking a photo a day, and I'm now enjoying looking back at the ones I've already taken this year.

Last Sunday I went back to work on an early shift starting at 6.30 in the morning, it was a bit of a shock to the system and I was tired. That and my interest in taking better macro photos lead me to take this photo of my husband's palm and to make it my photo of the day.

In the early hours of monday morning we got a brief flurry of snow, we've not really had much all winter. This was actually the most we'd had for two winters. Anyway it was a photo opportunity I couldn't miss, especially when my husband made this artwork for me.

My dad has some small cards which give you hints and tips about taking different photos. We were looking at them one day and chose a couple each. One of mine was to take a back lit leaf so that you can see all the veins. This is an evergreen leaf so it's quite thick, but I was still pleased with how it came out.

On wednesday I again tried another leaf, I love the colours of this one. I was a bit disappointed with the overall effect though. Although people who have seen it seem to love it.

On thursday I went back to the lakeside with my dad. This time he fed the swans, but I didn't get many good photos as I was too busy slipping over in the mud, it was great fun though.