A copper collection

My latest iPhone photo shared on Instagram

Sharing my daily iPhone photos on my blog

For Christmas I upgraded my Canon to a 500D (and my 400D/Rebel xti went to a good home, didn’t it Sheila?!) and today my new lens arrived. I know little about lenses and their various attributes but was looking for something which would be good in low light.  This lens was recommended (thanks Dave) –…

This is the tried and tested recipe my 6 year old son and I used last week to bake some easy banana bread.  It was his suggestion that the receipe should really be called “recycled” banana bread as we are using the bananas again (?) instead of throwing them away! Here is what you need…

Christmas is nearly upon us and I can’t wait for my husband to make his annual pilgrimage to our attic to bring down our Christmas decorations, trees and lights. As we have several kids birthday’s in December my husband yields to my pressure at the beginning of December to bring out the decorations – I…

As usual, my lessons learned this week are a bit of a mixture, but first I want to share my daily photo. We have a large ceanothus bush at the front of our house. I love the masses of blue it displays at this time of the year.OK – on to the lessons Contrary to…