BLUE ODYSSEY

Everything I collect seems to end up colour coded. Including my online inspiration, which comes in washes of colours. My Tumblr is looking a bit blue at the moment - see it over here...

LOL

I've had to buy photo albums to house the boxes of photos I've taken since I've been here. That's one thing I like about film - you get to have it around you rather than just on a memory card or your laptop.

1. My family have always called me Lol. Just like Lol from This is England
2. Park Life
3. Garden
4. Halloween
5. Gloomy vegetables in Bromley
6. "You're the first one who's taken a photo of my veg love" he said skeptically...
7. Afternoon sun at the station
8. Squinty
9. Super glasses
10. The daily commute
11. Take Courage. My favourite for years

KING OF THE CASTLE

As the weather in London changes, so does my inspiration. This past weekend was a series of lazy afternoons in the garden while Nan planted her new flowers. The usual sirens going by were almost matched by the familiar tinkling tune of the ice-cream van and children yelling "I'm the King of the Castle" in the park behind my house.

And so I find myself saving images of breakfasts of berries covered in mountains of maple syrup, milk bottles filled with fresh flowers, black and white pictures sixties starlets in lace white dresses and tiny scalloped bikinis.

Find me on Tumblr here


 

I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE

Today was a public holiday in England. I don't actually know why, but saw it as an opportunity to climb the hills near my house early this morning. Quiet everywhere, apart from a young couple and their toddler in the park... and strangely, two ducks that must have come from the little stream nearby.

When the child's parents told him it was time to leave, he started walking towards the ducks as if to pat them. They waddled away, and he followed them for so long, beckoning them and crying "Come here duckies!" His parents called him back as he got further and further away from them in his attempt to pet the ducks. Then all of a sudden, he stopped dead and yelled at the two ducks furiously "I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE!!!"

The whole scenario was hilarious, and made my morning walk that little more entertaining.

Breakfast lately has been rice flakes, almond milk, banana, shredded coconut, homemade jam and pumpkin seeds. Daisies peppered around the whole park and the mountainous hills at the moment. And me trying to catch the two ducks myself after the little boy had left.

TUMBLE WEED

Because Pinterest, Instagram, Flickr and Svpply simply aren't enough, I collect inspiration in yet another corner of the web - Tumblr.

Sometimes I want to crawl inside my laptop and live in my Tumblr - endless braids, kittens, sun filled lofts and Ryan Gosling gifs. If you want to live inside it too, even just for a little while, have a look at it here:

 http://laurensissons.tumblr.com/