I recently got a bunch of rolls of film developed and printed. Exciting for you, I know. Because it took so long to do, I now have a huge backlog of photos that I feel like deserve to tell some stories. Christmas is mostly always a travelling event in our family. This year we spent the actual day of Christmas at home, for the first time in what must be about four years. It was pretty great. The only way I could describe it is with the oxymoron of organised spontaneity, a.k.a mum had everything perfectly planned out, and we had no idea what the plan actually was.
Christmas is usually the time where we see extended family, as do most people. This year we started off by visiting the lakes on boxing day, to catch up with my dad's side of the family. The lakes never fails to be beautiful, (thank you Beatrix Potter) and it manages to blend the light of the sun, with the temperature of Antarctica so well. Despite the harsh cold, it made a great backdrop for photos of my surprisingly photogenic family.
A walk down to the lake is an obvious activity to do when actually in the lakes. It is their main attraction hence the name, I highly recommend. It is something that just has to be done every year we've been in that location. I'm only just starting to appreciate it and actually enjoy taking part instead of moaning about walking in the cold. Or just walking in general. But to drive there would be silly considering it's about 2 minutes from the house. My 10 year old self still would've preferred to drive though.
This past year was particularly beautiful and the light was stunning, as you can probably tell in the photos below. However, I would NOT advise that you go swimming in the lake like the clearly insane people we saw, no matter how pretty it is. But by all means take a photo and make it look like it was your family who were brave enough to do so. Even though it definitely was not.
From the lakes, we drove back on ourselves and further as we ventured to the land of Scot. This is so mum's side of the family wouldn't feel left out. We went to visit my gran and eat lots of chocolate and watch lots of Miss Marple, as everyone should at Christmas. I most definitely recommend that activity.
We also visited the place where my parents got married a million years ago, however it was a little bit disappointing and had been refurbished, also known as ruined. I will save them a name drop and a scathing review even though we, of course, prepared a list of complaints. But it really wouldn't be a Stead family trip if we didn't go somewhere slightly arty to mix things up, so we had coffee at The Beacon in Greenock, an arts centre. We in fact did not see any art or any movies but let's pretend that we actually contributed to the appreciation of art, instead of just getting coffee, as we always do.
All in all, a wonderful Christmas and a cute retrospective of both flattering and unflattering photos.
I mean, at least I've provided some variety.
Thanks for reading :)
G.
I recently got a bunch of rolls of film developed and printed. Exciting for you, I know. Because it took so long to do, I now have a huge backlog of photos that I feel like deserve to tell some stories. Christmas is mostly always a travelling event in our family. This year we spent the actual day of Christmas at home, for the first time in what must be about four years. It was pretty great. The only way I could describe it is with the oxymoron of organised spontaneity, a.k.a mum had everything perfectly planned out, and we had no idea what the plan actually was.
Christmas is usually the time where we see extended family, as do most people. This year we started off by visiting the lakes on boxing day, to catch up with my dad's side of the family. The lakes never fails to be beautiful, (thank you Beatrix Potter) and it manages to blend the light of the sun, with the temperature of Antarctica so well. Despite the harsh cold, it made a great backdrop for photos of my surprisingly photogenic family.
A walk down to the lake is an obvious activity to do when actually in the lakes. It is their main attraction hence the name, I highly recommend. It is something that just has to be done every year we've been in that location. I'm only just starting to appreciate it and actually enjoy taking part instead of moaning about walking in the cold. Or just walking in general. But to drive there would be silly considering it's about 2 minutes from the house. My 10 year old self still would've preferred to drive though.
This past year was particularly beautiful and the light was stunning, as you can probably tell in the photos below. However, I would NOT advise that you go swimming in the lake like the clearly insane people we saw, no matter how pretty it is. But by all means take a photo and make it look like it was your family who were brave enough to do so. Even though it definitely was not.
From the lakes, we drove back on ourselves and further as we ventured to the land of Scot. This is so mum's side of the family wouldn't feel left out. We went to visit my gran and eat lots of chocolate and watch lots of Miss Marple, as everyone should at Christmas. I most definitely recommend that activity.
We also visited the place where my parents got married a million years ago, however it was a little bit disappointing and had been refurbished, also known as ruined. I will save them a name drop and a scathing review even though we, of course, prepared a list of complaints. But it really wouldn't be a Stead family trip if we didn't go somewhere slightly arty to mix things up, so we had coffee at The Beacon in Greenock, an arts centre. We in fact did not see any art or any movies but let's pretend that we actually contributed to the appreciation of art, instead of just getting coffee, as we always do.
All in all, a wonderful Christmas and a cute retrospective of both flattering and unflattering photos.
I mean, at least I've provided some variety.
Thanks for reading :)
G.
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Tuesday 6 February 2018
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Photography /
Travel
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