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My Cupcake Brings all the Dogs to the Yard

Like my cupcake ?

Cupcake with too much ganache

Cupcake with too much ganache

Just a cupcake says you? A bloody messy one at that. Oh no siree, not just a cupcake. It is a special cupcake… Continue Reading…

Posted 1 year, 7 months ago at 9:15 pm.

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My Little Town

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Slideshow has 5sec rotation (roughly!).

Posted 1 year, 7 months ago at 7:15 pm.

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Grandma’s Camera

The camera

The camera

This, the Coronet Super-Flash, was my maternal grandmother’s camera. It’s from around about 1955, and comes from that most glamourous place, Birmingham. Through my childhood I can remember my grandmother with her Nikon SLR, which I was very envious of. The camera itself was probably the first thing that made me interested in photography, not what it did. This camera is the one that was used through my mother’s childhood, and probably explains why she seems to have an allergy to cameras that need anymore work than just pointing and pressing a button.

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Posted 1 year, 7 months ago at 3:36 pm.

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To Begin at the Beginning

The quality isn’t great, but I’ve now found my other three cameras that will hopefully be better. The quality of the presentation, ah well that isn’t quite so easily solved with a better camera.
Oh and I don’t know why it’s selected the least flattering image to freeze on, clearly a plugin with a sense of humour.

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Posted 1 year, 7 months ago at 8:55 pm.

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