My mobile phone

So I got a new mobile phone several months ago. I forget what happened to the old one that made me need a new one. But the new one has a camera in it. I know... to you this is nothing new... but to me, this is my first camera phone. I thought to myself: wow, having a camera in my phone will be great because now I can take pictures when I see stuff. Well, good idea… until I realised that having a camera on my mobile phone does not suddenly make me a person who takes pictures of stuff.

Now that I have a camera phone, there are times that I think: Hey, that might make an interesting picture and I have a camera on my mobile phone… naw, it’s not that interesting… I will wait until it is more interesting… Yes, I am that lazy...

There have, however, also been a few rare occasions that I actually carelessly snapped a shot or two. I say carelessly because it seems that the recent ones are quite blurry, so that is how I know it was careless. For example, here we are in West Hamstead making our house warming tea set in October (Thanks Susanne).

And here’s one from another weekend in October. My beloved & I went to Borough Market. It was a wonderful market (no pictures). They even had mulled apple juice (what Americans call ‘apple cider’, which bares absolutely no resemblance to the English drink of the same name). It was delish and it reminded me of the taste of home. So on the way back we stopped at The George for a pint. The George is my honey’s favourite pub. It is the last galleried coaching inn in London. Apparently, entertainers would perform on the ground and people viewed them from the galleries above. Well, in the spirit of the old galleried inns, a group of morris dancers showed up and gave us all an impromptu performance. Morris dancing is sort a modern incarnation of old folk English folk dance, steeped in tradition, whose origins are lost to history but will stir a frenzied debate amongst the competing dance teams. This is my first morris dance experience. There was lots of beer. And one of the team member came by and chatted with us afterward. He was very friendly and sweet, and patiently explained the ritual to us answering all of our burning morris dance questions. It was a fun experience and my phone sort of captured this moment (they are way in the background...).