Running away from uni work...

... to the beach!

It was my sister's birthday last week and my family were down in our caravan in Cornwall for a few days. Since I just finished a deadline (by no means the last one unfortunately) I figured I could take a break to go and see everyone and enjoy the sunshine.

It was a beautiful couple of days, we managed to visit 3 different beaches and eat lunch in the sunshine two days running. 

I didn't take my SLR but used my small camera which actually surprised me with how decent the pictures came out! If you are looking for a compact camera get a Lumix the lenses are epic :)

Fire Spinning

I joined the university juggling club at the start of this year as I have wanted to learn more poi and hula hoop tricks for ages!  Since then I have been doing mainly hooping, Amelia the president  is amazing at hooping so has inspired me and the other hoopers to learn lots in a pretty short space of time!

On sundays we often do fire spinning sessions which are fun, if a little scary when flaming poi nearly hit you in the face...

Have been using my new camera to experiment with light trails and long exposure, my photos can end up being pretty abstract at times. This is why I didn't do a photography degree, because I hate being told how I should use my camera when I like to just place around with it :)

One of the jugglers brought along his housemates to celebrate chinese new year and they had chinese lanterns and sparklers to play with!

dartmoor snow

Ok so this is a little late in the day but I only just got a chance to edit these :)

We had no snow in Plymouth so we ventured out to Dartmoor for the afternoon. It was crazy freezing so we went straight to the pub for hit chocolate and curly fries before going for a wander through to hills, trying not to fall in any hidden puddles and deep mud :)

Monkey!

Trying not to fall over in the snow!

Lets go to the beach

Had some friends visiting us this weekend which meant all of yesterday was spent hungover (I also went out again last night-double hangover!) and today we decided to take a trip to the beach as the weather was really nice.

We drove to Seaton beach in Cornwall, haven't been there before but there are some really nice rock formations and the rocks are all different colours and patterns (I used to do goegraphy so I like these sorts of things!)

Anyho, took the camera out so heres a few photos, if you ever get a chance to go there there is a really nice cafe' by the beach, its sortof sheltered and open at the same time, really good food and nice views :)

Christmas in the lakes

So this is way overdue since I didn't have my laptop over christmas and I haven't had a chance to edit my photos. 

I went to the Lake District with my family for a week over christmas.

I loved having this whole week to play around with my new camera, here is what we got up to!

Lots of walking in the hills.

We found some logs which people had shoved coins into, anyone know why this is? some kind of lucky charm?

We searched out waterfalls

And Robins

We had a blue and white christmas tree

I made christmas biscuits with sparkles

Mum knitted me and my sister awesome hats!

We resurrected the family tradition of indoor fireworks, making some holes in the tablecloth! 

And we also went out on my sisters inflatable kayak and made up songs about floating on a lake!

What did everyone else do for christmas? Get any exciting presents?