Coffee, Photo Shoots, Gatherings and Cycling!

Been a nice day, after isolating myself from people for a day I feel like myself again. By that I mean not having to go anywhere, not having to do anything just going home after work, reading a book, laying about my bed in my brand new fox socks, listening to tunes., full volume (hurray my crazy neighbour has moved out!) editing some pictures and drinking a lot of tea, because it's damn cold in my house!

  

I am not even going to try and summarize the last three weeks! But I think a lot has happened. I've done a photo shoot with a girl called Alex that I met a couple of months ago at one of the metal Wednesday's things. Last Friday I volunteered for ffotogallery and it was loads of fun. It was a preview evening for Paul Reas's exhibition 'Day Dreaming About the Good Times?' I thought his work was really interesting,  his images represent British class and culture, but are slightly bizzare images. Paul was there but I didn't get to talk to him. Me and Jamie (or was it Bob?) were behind the desk, pouring the free drinks and topping up the nibbles whilst sneakily drinking ourselves. It got pretty merry towards the end, walked out of the gallery pissed.

Here's a photograph of his:)

 

 Ewan stayed over my house on Sunday night. Sunday morning I had to call in sick due to a horrible stomach virus! Was throwing up all Sunday morning, had sweaty shakes and basically just slept all day. Ate like a total of a strawberry and a kiwi within space of nearly two days!  Sadly I was selfish and didn't think about how contagious the bus was! Ewan got it a day later :( Anyway on Monday I've had enough of my house and had to do something.

Before meeting Al for the shoot Louise cycled down mine to grab some notes. I really wanted to go for a hot drink somewhere, so we went to Coffee 1# five minutes walk from mine. It was really lovely and I got the 10th drink free for my coffee card.  Me and Lou had a cosy catch up then she headed home to do her photography work and I headed to Penarth to do mine :) Here's some pictures form our coffee and the photo shoot's behind the scenes ;)

 Ah, I had too... This shows our awful awful manners in public places! Don't think anyone noticed...

 

At the beach, sitting behind a stone wall for wind and rain shelter having a lil fag break and warming up!

 

I think the most eventful day this week for me has been Monday. I've had quite a lot of time off work so thought I should finally get myself together and do a photo shoot! Me and Alex met up around 3pm in the afternoon and started shooting in fields near her home and then got a bus to Penarth pier and did the rest of the shoot on the rocky beach. The weather was literally horrid, really windy and cold and was raining all afternoon! So I'm quite please with what we came out with!

After we finished shooting, we went to a chippy nearby Joe's house and got lots of food! I was sooo hungry by this point, not having eaten anything since Saturday I thought I could manage to eat a whole van! On our way to Joe's we met Dan so all walked up there together. It was Inferno Ortum's
(Ewan's band) first demo celebration down Joes so the whole band was there and couple of other mates. So we stayed there for a while, drank and smoked some and then me and Ewan went to his house for a little.  I left around 11ish because I needed to be up early on Tuesday as me and dad were going to cycle down Caerphilly which is like 20 miles!

 

On Tuesday me and my dad left the house early around 9am to cycle the taff trail! It was really refreshing to do something different. The sun was out and we had a great father-daughter time, considering we really don't get on so well usually. We stopped every here and there for coffee and fag breaks too.

We made lunch at home, ate and then went and bought me a laptop! I finally have one to store my photos on and edit, and listen to music. God I didn't appreciate my laptop before it broke haha! It's a beautiful, dark purple baby.
Anyway have a nice evening, I'm going to dye my hair now.
Cherry x
 

What does 'using your time wisely' even mean?

Wow, I'm sitting here in complete transs. This song, is just amazing... A new song by Velvet Underground-Candy Says that I've just only dicovered on a playlist. Yes, listen to it, and think. It makes me think about future and possobilities, which is kinda ironic, since I think that the song title hints to cocaine use. But somehow it makes me think of the things I could do with my time in life. I don't think we are meant to find purpose in life. I think that the purpose of life is just to live it, isn't it? I was discussing this with Louise, we had a nice conversation about it in the skate park, near my house, about the meaning of life, the way we spend our time, what we do and how we feel,  and what is the point of feeling or doing certain things we choose to do.

Today, I actually didn't waste away my time. Louise rang me and then came down mine and we cycled to Tesco's to get cigarettes. On our way back we stopped at the skate park for a while  just to sit down and talk. Later, we rode bikes down to Morgan's where we stopped for a bit before we went to Flower Gardens to play basketball (but didn't because the courts were taken) so we just sat down in the grass while Louise and Morg played football, Doob and Dylan were taking photos of each other and Josie was lying with her head on my lap. Such a nice evening. I cycled back to mine around 9pm, which killed me (yep, going uphill for most of it) and I stopped for a ciggie break after 40 minutes of riding, near our college- i dont think having a cigarette helped my short-breathness though. When I got home, and got off my bike I was so ehxausted, I don't know how I made it all the way to my house, high...

I really can't wait to go Camping on Sunday! Haven't been camping in so long, should be tons of fun:)
I've got some photos too. I stopped so many times in St Mellons on my way back, the sky was beauuuutiful!

Morgan

In Action :)

The pretties of local shits.

Josieee

Doob and Morg.

My room at the moment. I was doing some drawing before blogging, with Salvador Dali's book open in front of me, waiting for the inspiration or some sort of ideas to hit me.

And here is Velvet Underground- Candy Say's. Listen.