Donkey

There's no artistic merit in this, but aren't they lovely?

Holidaying.

 In Scotland now. Have internet, might post.

Vintage.

 

I went down to London to see the American Ambassador's art collection with Get Involved 17 (picked up Snape on the way), and to help with the Oxfam shop at Vintage at Southbank.  I managed to take some very touristy pictures while I was there. Despite the obvious appeal of colour blocked tweed and how amazing this couple look, I still feel uncomfortable with this much manifest nostalgia.

Weather

 (Trying to get the best view of a rainbow.)

Promenade.

Summer Wardrobe.

I don't really do outfit posts (not least because it eradicates all proper grammar, see below.) But I just bought some new jeans, and a bit of variation never hurt. These are my favourite shoes in the world.
Jacket - Oxfam, vest - Kookai (in the sale, obvs.), jeans - Topshop, shoes - Clarks Originals, headphones - Urbanears.

Home.

I'm back in Nottingham for what might be the last full week in a long time - at least until Christmas. I'm trying to work out whether or not I'll miss it. This is a photo of the window of The Museum of Costume and Textiles, where my mum used to work, where I spent many a Saturday afternoon and which closed a good few years ago. Many of the things I ought to miss are already gone, even my primary school has been bulldozed.
I'm more excited about heading to new places than leaving behind old ones.

Oxfam at Glastonbury

I very rarely post a photo which I haven't taken myself - but as I'm in  this one I thought it was justifiable. Whilst volunteering in the Oxfam shop during this year's Glastonbury festival, I was asked to join in with a fashion shoot. I'm no model, but it was quite fun - and the sun was shining! You can see more of the photos on the Oxfam Shop Events Flickr

Stylists:
Laura Martin (Company Magazine)
Faye Heran (Epinette Files Blog)
Andre Buenacosa

Photographers:
Mark Bushnell
Nick Futcher

Latitude, but not much festival.

There are no people, no music, no theatre, poetry or literary figures here, even though that's what my weekend was full of. I suppose my camera shapes my photography style in a way, because it's difficult to get good quality pictures of anything which moves, especially at night. So don't consider these to reflect Latitude Festival, they're just snapshots.

DOOM.

We have a map of Suffolk and Norfolk on which several places have been circled. The tag tied round the map lists what can be found at some of the points. At Wenhaston we found a doom painting, and a collection of watering cans.

Gardening.

That yew hedge used to be so dense that to keep it in shape the gardeners would just walk along the top of it, trimming as they went. I wish this was my garden.
I'm off to Latitude tomorrow. Home this time next week.

Two days in the city.

Sun, rain, and lost in Salford. The second image is of the current exhibition at Cornerhouse, Manchester. Takahiro Iwasaki's tiny pylons. All of these photos look fairly industrial, maybe that's inescapable.