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New Camera! (by sarah)

I hunted around and got this camera as a late birthday present - my family gave me some money and so did Alaric (mainly I think out of desperation as I kept stealing his phone). It was in a sale so was £40 cheaper than it should have been and infact still is on the manufactures website - this allowed me to get a case for it as well and stick to my £100 budget. It's 14 mega pixels - there was a lovely 16 mega pixel camera but it was only reduced by £10 and I would have had no money for a case.

The above was medium light levels with no flash - it would have come out very dark with the previous camera and grainy.

I am ecstatic with it and am driving everyone potty with it - Jean is now ignoring it!

One of the first things I did was check the zoom and light levels.

The shape of the camera makes it easier to hold without shaking which was a big problem with previous cameras - I am having the problem of zooming in too far and I am still adjusting to focal lengths etc... so am getting a few blurry duff pics. Of course I have not yet read the manual and am 'winging' it which is not the best way but a very Sarah way!

The Trike of Glee (by sarah)

Somewhere in moving house we miss placed the little noddy trike that we were given second hand for Jeany. This made us sad as Mary really loves the little push along thing my friend Becca and her sister bough up for us after little Millie had out grown it. This showed us that Mary would adore a trike especially as she started trying to steal Jean's bike.

So for Mary's second birthday we got her one joint with my family. It had to be assembled but has gone down a storm!

She loved it straight away to the extent that she kept stealing the wheels as the were being attached to it!

Since then she has been on and off of it constantly 🙂

She scoots it alone completely ignoring the pedals which she's not quiet big enough for yet anyway!

She got a late Christmas present of a tea set as well which she packs into the seat - takes for a ride and then deposits somewhere else in the room! Obviously it is an outside too but she is so excited by it at the moment we are allowing it to stay inside for a bit.

Garden for the Bunny (by sarah)

Fluffy Obsidion, the rescue baby bunny we took on has been living in our kitchen but with weather improving and him not being so small anymore it was time he was moved out into the garden - into the run.

He loves it 🙂 He sits in his hutch like he owns the place. He doesn't do happy jumps like Blacky did but he does race around and look interested in things.

A Real Valentines Day (by sarah)

It is another valentines day and again me and Alaric have failed to do the traditional type of thing.

This time we built shelves for the kitchen (well got half way through building them with the help of my Dad).

We had take away pizza deal with wedges and stuff for 6 of us and I started reading the girls the complete works of Will S. on Jean's request.

We went through some songs that ment things to us and went to bed - mostly Nick Cave and Tori Amos.

We are happy with this - I don't think either of us was cut out for the standard hyped mush that happens with V-Day. As Alaric said it has become something repulsive with all the commercial stuff. The idea of having to buy expensive gifts to show your love :/

This doesn't mean we don't celebrate but it's more making cardboard hearts with the girls and covering stuff with glitter. Last year I knitted a phone cover for Al - that sort of thing.

This year I wrote him a poem.