Life is just really great sometimes.  Okay all the time, but only sometimes you take the time to stop and think about it.  As you have seen from this weeks posts I really enjoyed sharing my knowledge on my Eat & Snap walk.  I am just trying to figure out the e-commerce plugin and then I will announce my next one.  Tim and I sold out our first video workshop (in fact we added an extra place).  I can’t believe that barely three months ago the idea came into my head and next week we will be teaching the class!  Also this week I met up with friends and we have exciting plans a foot.  Other friends are having exciting things happen for them too.  It is good and I am stopping and thinking about it and just enjoying it.

Just one link for the weekend because it is so wise

• Wisdom from Joy the Baker on lessons learned as she gets older.  I am inspired to do some CAPS LOCK LIVING.

Have a good one!  If you happen to be in the mood for some carbooting I will be spring cleaning on Saturday and selling some things down at Capital Carboot on Sunday.

After the Eat & Snap group on Saturday the die hards decided to go for a cocktail at one of the interesting looking venues along Maltby Street.  We settled on Little Bird Gin because it had pretty glasses.  Yup that is the way these bloggers roll.  We sat at an old sewing table and found some vintage scissors and a bobbin inside.

I have to admit the drink was a little strong for my palette but I’d buy another one and sit down there on a lovely weekend all the same.

It is quite funny how when you start looking for something it pops up.  As part of Eat & Snap I suggested some things people should look for to ‘concentrate the mind’ as it were.  One of those things was red.  You can see it popped up very prominently at the table we sat at.  As well as in a few of my other photos of the day.

On Friday I started planning for a recipe that Tim and I could film.  It was similar to things I had made in the past, a zucchini cake inspired by a recent purchase (La Cucina).

Unfortunately, my baking calculations didn’t succeed and the cake (more a loaf) didn’t turn out quite as planned.  So back to the kitchen.  But in the meantime you can enjoy a movie.  I am sure with the abundance of zucchini coming into season in season I will get the chance to experiment a bit more.  You know that whole thing about baking being a science.  Yeah that is true (despite my successes at normally just throwing things in a bowl).

Lesson learned: perfect a recipe before making a movie!

If you get this by email or on your phone you can check out the video here: Zucchini Cake (by Tim)

Borough Market is for the urban trendy, people with a willingness to queue for an inordinate amount of time for Monmouth coffee, tourists and food lovers*.  The hipsters go to Maltby Street.

* No shame in any of these – I love Borough Market

Saturday I had my first Eat & Snap gathering.  I had been a little nervous into the run up, never actually having taught anyone what I know.  We met at Village East which is on the loveliest little street in Bermondsey.  After having regular a ol’ chat with the snappers over brunch I felt relaxed and some friendships had already been formed.  After eating I handed out some ‘tip cards’ explaining camera settings and rules of composition and showed some camera examples.

I had planned to head down to Borough Market but we were told by the restaurant manager that Maltby Street was just down the road so we decided to head down there instead.  My weather mojo had worked well and although it was overcast (which is actually great for a bit of street photography) the rain that the weather man had told me would be happening all week never materialised.  I had heard about Maltby Street Market but hadn’t been so it was really great to see something different.  It is only one small street but it is packed with good food and awesome little restaurants under the railway arches.  I’ll definitely be heading back to check some more out.  The snappers headed off, got sidetracked by purple walls, and details, asked a couple questions, had some points clarified, looked styling in stripes and colours and snapped away.

All in all it was a great day and as a bonus I got some great shots of some styling hipster locals and a cocktail.  I’ll share later this week.  I’ll also link up any thoughts from the snappers involved, but you can follow some thoughts from instagram and twitter if you like.

Read what my snappers had to say: Charlotte | Made by Molu

Also …

I am excited for this weekend.  My first eat&snap gathering is tomorrow.  I had some ‘tip’ cards printed for the occasion and the printers duplicated my order, so I am taking that as a sign there will be another, but we shall see.

I’m hoping to find some time to relax too this weekend, after a busy weekend of catching up with people, day job and ‘night job’ means I am still coughing like a dog.  Is that the saying.  Do dogs even cough?

Anyway here are some links for the weekend

• I’m probably late to the show on this one but I love the photography on Industry of One.
• Blog of the week: The Ruffle House.  A little bit of interiors (with a great eye for spotting great matches), a little bit of personal style and a tonne of naturally red hair which is gorgeous.

Me Elsewhere:

• I had a post up on This is Your Kingdom exploring a local public garden
• Tim and I are working at getting more blog posts up on Posts Production.  We’d love if you would wander over and take a look. Today’s post is about why having a talented significant other to help shouldn’t stop you making brilliant movies.