So I know I said I’d put up some more pictures of the lake district but instead I went to Cornwall so suck this picture into your eyes and hopefully enjoy it and if not then leave a comment saying why you hate me and I’ll definitely care.

Laters dudes.

Travel Tip: If you are ever in, around or near the Lake District, then you must visit The Church House Inn because the food is amazing, the beer is fabulous, and the pub is bloody amazing. If you go to the pub quiz on a Sunday night expect to get your arse handed to you by the locals. We didn’t come last though, third out of five teams isn’t too bad….

A trip to the lakes is an opportunity to play with all my cameras, which usually results in any walk or trip out taking about 15 times longer than it should!

First up the pinhole pictures. I’m increasingly of the opinion that it’s not worth bothering with this thing any more. It takes ages to set up, it’s impossible to get the horizon straight, the negatives are a nightmare to work with, and the results just aren’t interesting enough to warrant all the effort.

Add to that the fact that the camera is falling apart (who could have guessed a cardboard camera would not be durable?) and the writing is on the wall…

I did use some other cameras too so I guess I’ll share some of those pics at some point…

Once upon a time I went to New York two months ago and took loads of pictures but never got around to actually doing anything with them but here is some of them now for your eyes to look at and your brain to hopefully enjoy.

You might be wondering where all the colour is, well there isn’t any, if you’d been to New York loads like what I have you would know that. Silly you.

So there has to be some benefit that one can derive from working away from home, right? In this instance the benefit is finding out that about one mile from my hotel is Heston Blumenthal’s pub! Mmmmmm gastropub foody goodness….

Which basically means lots of yummy stuff like a scotch egg made with a quail’s egg, mmmmmmmmmmm egg.

mmmmmmmmmmmm egg. excuse crappy phone pictures I didn’t want to look like a food tourist taking pictures of my food in front of all the posh folks.

so about a million years ago I went to the lake district and took loads of photos, seems to me that I should share a couple here. If you care, we stayed in Coniston and these were taken at Tarn Hows.

So there you go, a lake in the lake district, the world has gone mad.

We didn’t get tickets for Glastonbury this year, so to soothe the trauma of our loss we instead treated ourselves to a few days away in the lovely town of Dartmouth.

Highlights include the boat trip to Totnes, a meal at the Michelin star restaurant “The New Angel” (all 11 insanely delicious courses of it), and a lot of beer (for me) and wine (for Abby) in a lot of lovely pubs.

Go there, it’s fab. That there white house in the picture is where Agatha Christie lived! I know!