Day 296 - Knuckle Duster

My favourite green amber ring which my Granny calls my knuckle duster!

Day 295 - Running

Back in June I decided to be a bit more proactive with keeping healthy and enlisted the help of a personal trainer at the gym. It's been an amazing 5 months and I feel like a completely different woman. Kate, my trainer, has really motivated me in keeping fit and is brilliant at keeping me accountable by setting me goals. Over the last 4 months I've lost just over 1 1/2 stone and gone down 2 dress sizes but the main thing is I feel brilliant! The other amazing thing about doing all the exercise is months ago you wouldn't have caught me dead on a treadmill and now Kate has got me running for a minimum of 15 minutes every time I train and yesterday we went for a run out and about around the roads near the gym. I have even gone out and bought myself some proper running trainers to give me the support I need. I feel great and am loving it....move over Paula Radcliffe! (ok, I don't think I'll ever do a marathon but it still feels good.)

Day 294 - Office Space Avaliable

What I love with my job is that everyday is different! One day I'm taking photos of a cute baby, another it's a wedding and today it was lego men!! One of the guys in my BNI chapter works for Mailboxes etc.. and he wanted some photos for an ad that he's putting together. Part of his business is renting out mail boxes to companies and he wanted an ad which promotes this. His idea was to advertise it as "Office Space" being avaliable to rent in the city centre. The way he wanted to show this was by putting a lego office in one of the boxes and have me photograph them! An amusing little ad which I hope will work for him.

Day 293 - Loft Legs

I am in the very slow process of transforming my study bedroom into an office for Serendipity Photography. I spent this week sorting through everything which meant a lot of recycling and many trips to the charity shop! It was quite therapeutic but also a little emotional as I got rid of a lot of things which I used as a teacher...the end of an era!

In order to get things sorted I wanted to put things up in the loft but I'm not quite tall enough to get up there so my friend Dave came round to help out. The next stage is to paint the room and get furniture to transform it.

Day 292 - Lemon Meringue

Fiona and Bill ended up staying at mine for another day which was great. They went out to meet up with a few friends and run a couple of errands during the day whilst I did some work but then we chilled out in the evening. I decided to make a lemon meringue pie, which I like to think is Katy specialty! Unfortunately Fiona can't eat it so she had to leave it to Bill and I to plough through. Life's tough but we coped! I asked Bill to pose for my photo for today and show his appreciation for my lemon meringue! I think he likes it! ; )

Day 291 - Sisters

Fiona called me yesterday asking if her and Bill could come and stay tonight. They were meant to be coming up north to stay with some friends for the weekend. Unfortunately they'd had a phone call to say that their friends' baby had been taken into hospital so Fiona didn't want to turn up late at their house. It was a nice surprise and good to spend some time with Fiona and Bill. They may end up spending the whole weekend here depending on what happens with their friend's baby!

Fiona was really tired but I needed a photo for the day so persuaded her to smile for the camera..not really difficult as she's not camera shy! I never think that Fiona and I look like sisters but if you cover up our eyes we have the same nose and smile in this photo!!

Day 290 - African Dancing

I popped into town today and there was this group of African dancers from Zimbabwe who had attracted a large crowd of spectators. It was really good to stop and watch them, they had such energy and their enthusiasm was infectious.