Mandyworld

I've moved.

Not house but bloghome. I've discovered that dotmac is actually quite cool now and that I pay for it already with my email address so I am now here. There's lots of news so go have a look!

Lost and confused

It has come to my attention that this blog isn't really about anything. It was going to be a photojournal but I never seem to have the time to take many photos so it has just become a very infrequent and probably rather boring diary. I have to admit that my life is somewhat like this at the moment, not boring as such but definately lacking in direction. I seem to be chronicly busy getting nothing done. So, time for a plan, I am good at making plans. The execution of said plan can be a bit woolly but I'll get to that later.
I have several 'jobs' all of which I do 'part time':
1. Mother to 2 year old. (I like to think I'm good at this.)
2. Housewife.( The house is a pigsty and we never have any clean clothes!)
3. Showjumper. (One week this is all I do then the next week I think I might give up. I can't make up my mind.)
4. Photographer. (I never seem to have the time for this but I'd love to do more.)
5. Fishkeeper. (I have six fish and an algae problem!)
There are also loads of things that I would like to have the time to do but haven't yet started. I'd like to get out in the garden and learn how to be a decent gardener, I'd like to make my own curtains and do some knitting and I'd like to do some ballet again. Oh, and at the moment I am really getting into cooking. I've been on a bit of a serious diet and now that I am starting to eat properly again I have a bit of a passion for food. I'm working my way through Jamie Oliver's new book. Yum!
I don't work as such, so I should be able to do all this shouldn't I? Maybe I just need better time management. Maybe I should just concentrate on one thing at a time. Maybe I should just give up on some of this for the moment.
So what is this blog about? Oh, I don't know.......I guess just me, off in Mandyworld, doing my Mandy thing. So, here's the plan, it's a diary, about all of this. Read it, don't read it, comment or not, I will continue to muddle my way through life.

Reblogging

I'm reblogging or blogging again after a considerable absence. I had a blog before but I tried to be clever and I couldn't keep it up. So here it is a simpler blog, my diary of Mandyworld, my own little place full of babies, horses, dogs, houses and my camera.
Why would you want to read this? I don't know, but I do often have interesting thoughts and say to myself, 'If only I had a blog I could write about that'. It's probably just mindless waffle clogging up the ether but who knows, maybe I'll make a friend or two.
Today I learnt about taking professional photographs of the interior of houses. We had a photographer come to shoot our house (it's on the market). It's actually a lot harder than you would think. I tried the other day and my efforts were pretty dull. Apparently all lamps and lights should be on. Fires should be lit with paper so you get a nice bright flame and some extra studio type lights and a bit of flash don't go amiss. The chap was very clever at moving the lighting around to give the room the right depth and balance. He did find the kitchen tricky though, this showed I was not a complete moron. It was good though I think I could make a reasonable job of it now.
This is my effort, the pro's was much better.