Off To The Inlaws

Off to Gail and Gordon's today and I mostly got caught up playing Super Mario Galaxy and totally missed my bus, but every cloud has its silver lining!! The swans were out with their rather large children today! Every other time I'm by here they are either not out or I don't have a camera! I just wish I brought my holga!! That's what I get I suppose for not having it on me!! This bus is going to be ages though. So this is coming from the app, so we will see how this looks once I am done!

The Royal Botanical Gardens

Dixon had a couple weeks off this month, I unfortuanetly couldn't get time off or these photos may have been somewhere entirely different. I did have my regular days off which were pretty awesome to spend some time with him. Instead of doing the usual which is nothing, we went to the Royal Botanic Gardens for a change since it was an awesome day!

I really want to go again and get into the greenhouses, I don't care if you need to pay, they look awesome. So you will probably see more of the botanics again!

Cramond Island

Every Year around the second or third weekend of August, this years being the 18th, a concert is organised on the disused bomb shelters of Cramond Island. And though Cramond is an island when the tide goes out, you can walk over. So you get up bright and early and head out to the Firth of the Forth and make the long walk over to the other side up the hill and down again to the bunker, it makes for a pretty different kind of gig. We were very prepared this year and had a BBQ and everything so loads of drink, loads of food and loads of music! Brilliant

Crossing to Cramond

Check us out in the first minute!

Rollercoasters!

I have realised I am way behind on my blogging, this happened while we were still in Blackpool! I did only get some of these photos back from my holga the other day so that is mostly my excuse, its not a good one but its still an excuse.

After we were all exhausted from a tiring weekend of seeing bands drinking and making fools of ourselves we decided the best move forward would be to go to the rollercoaster park and make even bigger fools of ourselves because as you know nothing cures a hangover like a giant roller coaster!

I have to say the brilliant weather really helped cause it was a really really good time.

Here's Dixon with his BatBananaman he won! Pretty soon after he got bored and gave it away to some kids who were pretty excited to get it!

Everyone decided since it was super warm to go on the Valhalla ride, its tagline, you will get wet, everyone though, 'oh its brilliant outside, we will dry off in no time'. I went on the first go round but decided it really wasn't that great so I watched the bags for the second go round and they all came out looking a bit like this, if you can imagine they were all soaked! Did the sun dry them you may ask? No it conveniently hid behind a cloud once it was needed. So needless to say I was a bit happy I didn't get soaked on the second roud haha!

Best Part of the Day 

 

One of the most exciting things as well, we met Stza from Leftover Crack and Star Fucking Hipsters, and I was super excited but my friend was giggling like a school girl and bouncing up and down to meet him, so she got a picture with him, and after that I just felt silly asking so I kinda stole her photo, I still kinda wish I would have asked but can't do anything now. On the bright side he was super nice, so if you are planning on trying to meet Stza, try a roller coaster park. Hes super happy there.

Those Are Shite

 The Shite Shirt extravaganza down in Blackpool, it had to be captured on film. Look close and you will see Shite Shorts as well!

 

 

 

 

If you haven't seen these masterpieces go and check them out.

 

http://www.facebook.com/#!/ShiteShirts

Edinburgh Fringe

The last few years that I have been living in Edinburgh the Fringe Festival has kind of been something I just had to deal with and when you work in the center of town its sometimes becomes a nusance. I have wanted to take part but everytime you step out into it it feels over crowded and clostrophobic. I think I have found the solution!

Previously when I went out onto the Royal Mile it was becaue it was my lunch time and I had to get there get food and get back to work, impossible! This year I avoided that bit of the Fringe and Daniels sister Hayley and I actually took part, saw shows, ate at the street vendors, took flyers and had an all around good time!

We ended up seeing 5 shows we paid for and about 4 or 5 free shows, I would say all bar one of the paid shows was brilliant and all bar one of the free shows was shite. Not to say that all free shows are crap but the ones we kept stumbling into definately were.

The highlights of my Fringe were seeing Brendon Burns and Rhyse Darby, also the inside of the Tron Church, and getting to hang out more with Hayley. Can't wait for next year!

 

Black and White

I got a bunch of film back from the printers earlier this week and I am really excited about some of the pictures, plus some of them are a few months old now so its nice to see them again, but I really should start printing my film more promptly cause the events are more fresh in my mind.

National Museum of Modern Art

 

 

 

There Be No Miracles Here

Edinburgh

 

 

 

 

 

This film is the first Black and White I've done so it was fun to see the way they all came out.

Happy Anniversary!

Its already been 6 days since our anniversary but that doesn't make this post any less special. It was our second anniversary, but it kinda felt like our first as most of you know, Dixon and I were apart this time last year for what felt like forever. In reality it was 6 months, which feels like forever when you are waiting for something or someone. This year however was awesome! We both had to work, there was no point in me getting the day off to be by myself if Dixon couldn't get the day off too. But we woke up bright and early to exchange gifts! Daniel got me a Nintendo Wii and two Records that have yet to arrive! So naturally I have been spending most free moments playing Mario Kart or Super Mario Bros 3 it has been awesome!

Daniels Gifts

My Gift C:

 And in other news I got off my lazy behind and got some Holga photos developed, though I have one more roll finished and another half finished in my camera that I really want to get developed of Cramond Island! These ones date back all the way to when Caryn was here and some from down in Blackpool as well so those later.

And there should be a post shortly about the Fringe cause its winding down and a lot of the shows I was off to see will be done soon!

Rebellion Festival

For once I haven't been blogging because I have been doing nothing, now I have been so busy doing things that I haven't had the time to put together a cohesive post!
August is always a super busy time in Edinburgh more so when you are working during the largest international fringe festival in the world! On top of that every year Daniel and I like to go to Rebellion Festival down in Blackpool, and that is on exactly when the Fringe starts. Luckily I got it off again this year and we were off to see a fairly impressive line-up.
Thanks to Steven we had a lift down in his car, so no trains for us! Which is nice considering in a car its about a four hour long drive.
Blackpool is sort of a weird town where tourism really is its main source of income but people don't really go their for the sights it more for Stag party's and the like that make it down there and so the place really reflects that, with the centre being almost completely full of B&B's. But usually when I have been down before during the festival, the centre seems overrun with Punks! This year it seemed much quieter, which was a bit weird cause they had some of the biggest bands on it this year.
All that aside it was a really great time, and I didn't take as many pictures as I wanted to but I suppose that is the price to pay for drinking too much and having far too much fun.

In the end I didn't see as many bands as I would have liked to but it was still an amazing time, I got to see Social Distortion, Star Fucking Hipsters, Rancid, the UK SUBS, just to name a few, though I only saw a a couple more haha.

After the madness was all over we decided to head over to Pleasure Beach the Roller Coaster Park for the day but I think I will talk about that a bit more later!