Jemima’s Blog | London

Facebook and Twitter seems to have absorbed everything I have to say.

Apparently this constitutes mumblings of no more than 140 characters in length, and some daily photographs with occasional explanatory or locational captions.

So here is the first of what may become a monthly update – a collection of some of my daily iPhotos that facebook absorbs.

First off, a video from my ‘Summer Holiday’ where we tried to sail to France, twice – but the wind was coming from France at great speed – humph.

(If you’re reading this on facebook you’ll need to click this link to view the vid)

And more from that little trip…

Then I played some lacrosse…

Which we won…

and some tennis, which I didn’t…

Then I drove down to east sussex for bug’s birthday in my new car – a Morris Minor Traveller that looks like this – Cool huh?

But mostly I’ve been bumbling about London – enjoying summer and newly embracing the entire concept of a ’social life’ after 7 months of solid lacrosse evenings and weekends – here it is!

That’s Hammersmith Bridge, on my way to see long lost school friend Tiffany Freisberg. This is her in the middle below:

And my good friends Tommy and Tiggy (Hidetomo and Tugela)

Oh, I forgot – I spent a weekend working on a new website for a client (well… sort of client – we’re exchanging services – I’m doing her website, she’s giving me life coaching – pretty neat exchange I think). This is me at my desk:

This is Marylebone where I work, and my lovely summer lunchtime walks.

More London ramblings – detatched feet:

Present shopping – Oliver Bonas Rocks:

Out for my friend Jamie’s birthday do:

These are straws.

Then my pal Liz invited me to her ‘Domestic Burlesque’ exhibition (she was a model)

Oh, they were all taken on my iPhone 3Gs by the way – that phone rocks.

All in all a super month. More please.

I scooted over to the london seo get together, but decide to bail early and spend the evening strolling around London with a friend – something I’ve not had time to do for months.

Strolled through Covent Garden and up Shaftesbury Av, then popped into soho for dinner.

As I scooted home down the Strand, I drove past this classic car being run by what I think were two students from Imperial college. Its engine had a fantastic haphazard rhythm, and just as you thought it had settled into a song it would change entirely again. Very fun!

On my last day in Edinburgh I decided to photograph the Greyfriar’s graveyard which my bedroom window has overlooked all these years. I have popped in before, but never with a camera handy.
Though of course the gravestones made good subjects, it was the greenness (for want of a better word) of the grass and new leaves, that I was soaking up.

Spring is brilliant isn’t it.

Putney Bridge

SO, I have upped and moved to London, and I only just noticed, but the exact day that I arrived in London was precisely one year on from the date of the first post I ever made on this here blog! I was planning on doing some big posting about how I had or hadn’t achieved my aims, what I had and hadn’t learnt, the ideas I’m still working on and the projects that I’ve completed and am or am not proud of. The truth is, I’ve been so busy with the move that I have literally hundreds of photos I’ve not yet posted up. So instead of writing, I’m just going to be posting lots of photos up over the next week as I get round to editing them – so check back soon for lots of yummy tidbits.

Here’s to the next year!

This was my first Beltane festival, and I’m definitely going to have to go again. This isn’t because I had loads of fun, but because I missed most of it through being in the wrong place at the wrong time. About 500 people were crowded around a stage, and being a first timer, my flat mate and I thought that’s where we should be too. Actually, the performers were only going to take to the stage right at the end. Once we realised, we headed off to find the party, but by then it had begun to rain, and I was too scared to have my camera out, this was proper downpour style rain! We were sodden to the core, but had loads of fun. I’m sad that I didn’t get that many photos, but at least I have an excuse to go again next year!

Whilst we were waiting around near the stage, random folk who were bored decided to get up on the stage to provide entertainment. Mostly people either did a silly dance, or wrestled each other.
Their silhouette was quite cool though:

Some folk with lampshades as hats:

Some of the lads:

I was out yesterday taking loads of photos for a mini project that I’m doing. Have you ever seen those fake miniature tilt and shift photos? There’s a big craze for them at the moment, and I don’t want to feel left out. The only problems is that it’s going to take me a little while to get it right, but I hope that by the end of today I’ll have managed to create one successfully, and so I’ll post it up when I do.

In the meantime, here’s a pretty skyline (reminds me to get the dust off my sensor):

The finishing line, originally uploaded by Jebaloo.

Taken at the end of Rocca’s show, which was amazing by the way. See my
links for Rocca’s site. She asked me to take photos for her, but
having lugged my camera bag all the way to Glasgow, I turned up with
about 15 empty batteries. Dufus.

I will learn.

All part of seeing with new eyes. I’ve lived here for more than three years, and its only just occurred to me that the light that filters down from the roof light and squeezes past the front door is rather beautiful.

Taken on a camera phone.

I was out with my camera yesterday trying to catch some of the daylight, and was cheered (on such a miserable day) to see whole beds full to the brim with all sorts of coloured flowers. I take my hat off to the groundsman of Princes Street Gardens. It’s a shame that the gates were locked so that I couldn’t get inside.

I liked the colour of this guys coat:

I’ve been down in London for a few days over Easter to see the fam, cats, and galleries. I saw this as I got off the train from Edinburgh at about 5pm on Easter Sunday.