Chez Spud

Ooooh Camera Club, haven’t done this for a while…have the biscuits gone stale in our absence? Should we get the club going again? Anyone need any help with anything, got a question…if so please leave a comment and I’ll wrap them up in subsequent Camera Club post. I’ve had a few email questions recently too, [...]

Cheers! Gin & Tonic (Hendricks of course) at Julochka’s place to celebrate the start of Blog Camp 3.0.
End of day one…I got up at 4am…left the house at a less than ideal 4.45am…foggy (oh crap) so got to the airport at 5.50am…arrived at check-in at 6.13am (2 minutes before it closed)….resuscitated myself after briefly passing [...]

Hello [Virtual] Campers! I present A Tale of Four Breakfasts…but which is the odd one out?
Is it the delicious homemade scones knocked up in a jiffy by Miss Buckle? Or the delicious pastries (Danish, of course) which Julockha’s husband kindly went out and bought for us, the tip-top Blog Camp Jam made by the fragrant [...]

It’s all about the little things…that’s the conclusion Jelica (which, by the way, is pronounced Yel-IT-sa) and I came to whilst discussing how to differentiate one European city from another when, in certain ways, so many seem similar. Same shops, same brands, same coffee chains, same rather grotty main train station situated in the seedy [...]

HELP STOP AM STUCK IN JULOCHKA’S BLUE ROOM STOP SEND HELP STOP CAN’T GET OUT STOP HELP STOP REPEAT HELP STOP

Oh look! Blog Campers in Reno, hellooooo

Mmmm, Julochka made gin cocktails, it’s raining, we’re cosied in the Blue Room, the Blog Camp blend from The Fragrant Muse is burning, the ‘loungey’ music is playing…we’ve done our jump shot….all is well in Blog Camp 2.0 world…
We made clay creatures…

We learnt how to say ‘Spitting on the floor is forbidden’ in Danish…

These guys [...]

I’ve been absent. Life has been giving me a run for my money and briefly bankrupted me. I was 8 hours late for Blog Camp due to having hopelessly not packed in time. No matter…I am now famously late for Blog Camp. I might have to host the next one myself to stop me being [...]

Final thoughts on Blog Camp before I parcel up the rest of the memories for myself and pop them in to an easily accessible corner of my mind.
Whilst driving home it suddenly struck me that I had been the only Brit attending the BBC (Brit Blog Camp); Kristina is Swedish and lives in Sweden, Blanca [...]

I feel like an astronaut re-entering the earth’s atmosphere…or that the light is calling me, like it is for Polly and Blanca pictured above. Less airily, I’m coming down to earth with a huge bump…I’m still fizzing but the bubbles are rapidly going flat. The glums are descending and I feel lonely, a very rare [...]

“Feeling fizzy”…that’s how us tired but happy Blog Camp 1.5 girls described ourselves this morning over breakfast; a kind of energetic bubbling up of excitement and giddyness at our blossoming friendships. We all went to bed very very late, but no one could sleep at first because of the ‘fizzy’ feeling. Our lovely hostess Beth, [...]