Bolognese

I've been wanting to make some Bolognese for weeks. Since I now spend all my time at home anyway I thought it's the perfect time to make something which requires not that much work but a lot of time on the hob. Needless to say, it was delicious. Recipe adapted from this.

Easter

I had the most wonderful Easter this year. My friend Christa invited us all over for an Easter party with all of her neighbours. There was a barbecue, the company was great and the food was delicious. Also as the first real daytime drinking event it marked the beginning of spring in Oxford. That was just what I needed after weeks and weeks of being hidden behind my desk. 

I started my Easter with this little treat. I discovered the best little French patisserie up in Summertown. 

Then I put on some new Repettos that had been sitting in my wardrobe since December (so very shiny) and cycled over.

Burgers and Champagne. What a perfect Easter!

It's been a while

Over the last few months I had kind of given up on this project. I was extremely stressed with applications etc and kind of all over the place - literally. But now I'm in Paris and it's spring and I have time so I should probably document and recap all that's happened. But for now it shall suffice to share this depiction of the most brilliantly french woman I have ever had the honour to capture on film, or pixel rather.

Oh how I long to be in Paris

Photographic tricks

About a year ago I discovered a brilliant little programme called toycamera which allows you to make your shiny high resolution digital pictures look like they were taken on a crappy broken analogue. It so happens that mostly I find that look a lot more appealing than the polished digital one and so for those not that devoted to photography and possibly short on funds it is a much cheaper and faster alternative to disposable cameras et al. Of course this does not mean to say that you should ditch your good old analogue. Nothing can ever replace the process of real photography and I much prefer the results of exposing real film to light and then having it developed and properly printed (though places that will actually do that are quite hard to find these days). But this little gem of a tool does make it much easier to take lomography style pictures without hesitation and second thoughts about the money spent on endless snapshots.

NYC toycamera

Actually I was planning to upload a number of toycamera impressions of my stay in New York but sadly blogger is being rubbish and only this one made it through. I guess I'll have to find some other way. The rest will follow shortly.

Tuesday

As I already reported, I went to a fashion show on Tuesday which was really exciting.

Afterwards I met up with Maureen and we went to Cafe Gitane at Jane Hotel. It's so pretty there.


I could have stayed forever.

 Lovely Maureen, always on her Blackberry.

They even have a fusball table.

The bar was also amazing, I will definitely be checking that out this weekend.

From there we went for a stroll along the Highline.

After the show I had seen people with these bags everywhere because there had been a Mulberry show at the same time and a really nice lady gave me hers when I asked her about it. Yay!

When Maureen left I decided to sit on the highline and read for a bit.

Oh New York City!