A New Year

I'm back blipping this because it's taken me awhile to decide what to write (it's now 9/1/13 although the photograph was taken on New Years Day), I wanted to do a kind of honest round-up of my year but not sound too negative, which has taken a bit of thought! 2012 wasn't a great year for me, my health was worse than ever and the past 6 months in particular have been very hard indeed. However I find I don't really want to talk about it.
And it wasn't all bad, I appreciated more than ever what great friends I have, thankyou in particular to marvellous MsMaggie, MrsD and MsPixieInk for managing to get me out of my wee hole for coffees, chats, giggles and lovely days out! It made a huge difference during difficult times and I'd probably turn into a very grumpy hermit without you all. And thanks too to my lovely mum who fielded incoherent phone calls at the worst times and was always ready to listen. I should have gone home more and not tried to cope with it on my own so much, I will this year.

So instead of dwelling on all the horrible from this past year here are all the good things that happened, in blipform :)

Claire's Hen Party

Wondrous new camera!

Claire's Wedding

Maggie's Birthday at Mimi's

Mags with Mags in the Botanics

Day trip to Ullapool with Mum

Cakes at the Storehouse w Maggie

My 'special' Parents!

Fabulous new specs

My first polaroid - MsInk, Cinn and Ser

First blip of the Fest

MsInk's Story Shop

MrsD and the Bean

Book Group/Film Club

Rabbit Teapot!

Lovely pals gave me a Macbook!

Baby Boom

Lovely Book Group creatures

MsPixieInk

Claire's Birthday

The Ginger Menace

Maggie Elfhead!

Sleeping Beauty

My Christmas Stall

MsMaggie

Daytrip to The Dean

Book Quiz

The Christmas before Christmas

Fernando

Christmas

Birthday Cakes

Squirrel Boy

I'm afraid I didn't take any particularly great photographs this year and 9 months on I still haven't learned how to use my dslr. Project for the months to come maybe. This is possibly the only one that I would consider to be quite good -

Snap

I did take lots I liked with my Polaroid on Impossible Film though and theres definitely something about them that has suited my melancholy mood recently, plus I just love anything retro. I might have to do another blip dedicated to them. Here's a couple of my favourites -

Canonmill's Clock Tower

American Gothic