3 Weeks Down

And we are back with 7 more happy days, its been a pretty great week this week! We had Burns Night, which I will hopefully talk more about in my next post, and I had got my pictures back from the printers. So even with January feeling like the longest month ever, I have had a lot of ups! So lets bring on the final week of January!

1. Getting my film back from the printers

2. Playing with negatives on my Lomo Scanner

3. The cutest Oilers fans ever

4. No cavities, painless dental checkup

5. Catching the early bus, 20 mins extra time at home

6. Burns Night Supper, yum!

7. Free Coffee, thanks O2!

That about sums up my week!

Halina Rolls Colour Film

I finally got around to getting my roll of film developed from ages and ages ago, almost a year ago, because one of the photos I took was in this exhibition, Massimo Bartolini. Unfortuantely it didn't turn out as well as I hoped. But some of the other pictures I love. There were a few light leaks, but if you know me I am rather fond of a light leak! I really need to get taking more shots with film! Anyway, without further ado. 

January seems to be the month for posts for me so far, hopefully I didn't just jinx it haha.

Edinburgh In Instagram

This week has been very interesting weather-wise, to say the least. We have had sunshine, snow, hail, sleet, all in one day, but the mornings, the mornings have been gorgeous. So I have been taking loads of pictures as I am on my way to work. So that has been a lot of fun, I have filled up a roll on my Halina camera, but I do not have the money just now to get it developed, so we will just have to wait on that one.

We are looking at moving house, which is pretty exciting. We only looked at the house yesterday, but it looks pretty excellent. It does need quite a bit of work but it will definitely be worth it to have our own flat with a private garden and everything. I don't want to get too excited, so I probably shouldn't even be blogging about it, but I will know soon enough whether or not we get it. So if I post later on this month saying, yay! Then I probably have got it, if I don't mention it ever again, it is pretty safe to assume we are staying put!

Anyway, here are some photos of our changeable weather, 

I have walked past St Giles Cathedral a fair amount of times and, I don't know that I have ever noticed this massive plaque with a skull on it. How do you keep missing it? 

Its also been an excellent cooking week, well technically cooking day, yesterday I made, Homemade Lemonade, Cornbread Muffins, and Chilli. It was quite an evening! The Chilli came out super hot, I think it is because I have never really used fresh chillis before, and so I didn't really know how many to use. I even deseeded it! But in the end I added another can of beans and it seemed to calm it down loads, so we are going to have that for dinner tonight with rice and the Cornbread Muffins.

Again I found the recipe for the chilli at The Minimalist Baker, the Cornbread on the BBC Good Food Website. But I can't remember where I found the Lemonade recipe from, though its pretty easy, you just make a simple syrup with equal parts sugar and water (or 2/3 or the sugar if you want it less sweet) and warm in a sauce pan til melted, then squeeze 4-6 lemons until you have about a cup of lemon juice mix with simple syrup. Then add 3-4 cups of water and chill for 30-40 minutes. Easy-peasy!

Christmas Cameras

I haven't blogged too much about the camera's Dixon got me for Christmas, and when I say "cameras" what I mean is so many amazing, beautiful, different, exciting, cameras I don't know what to do with myself. And so, I am starting now, I have mentioned the wonderful Fugica 35 Automagic a few times in a couple posts now, and I have just brought some film over to the printers so it should be done on Wednesday! So excited to get it back. I have a whole bunch of Black and White rolls so that is what is being developed just now. I accidentally bought them off of ebay when I was looking for 120 rolls and looking back at the description it didn't say anywhere that they weren't 35 mm rolls, so I suppose I could have complained, but in the end it has all seemed to work out.

The Fugica seems really easy to use, sort of point and shoot sort of camera that I quickly became familiar with, I had a jamming problem if you remember but that was sorted quickly with a bit of know how from some experts. So all in all I really like though a bit big for carrying around everyday. The Halina should be a bit smaller so i would imagine a bit more portable.

Just check all of these out.

Now I've managed to get my Halina Rolls open, which before I though would be impossible, it seemed truly stuck in its case! I decided to get some colour film for this one, even with the amount of black and white I have at home. Spring seems to be springing so I want to make sure I get a bunch of the blue skies that are so rare in Scotland, mostly just to prove it isn't always raining. I think I should be able to get this film developed as a one hour photo type thing, so hopefully I fill up the roll quick with excellent images!

See, its a beautiful morning here, even if its a bit frosty!