29/12/13

- Coffee from a local favourite 'Betty's' - Snowy railings on Regents Canal - Even snowier branches outside our bedroom window - Nothing ever grows in those pots - 

 I suppose it is inevitable when approaching the end of a(nother) year that our instinct is to look back on what is past, as well as looking forward to what is yet to come. In the spirit of this nostalgia-tinted time, I dug out some photographs that were taken about this time last year & considered how much has changed since then. My boyfriend & I were still undergraduate students & our days were filled with late mornings in bed with bowls of warm porridge & well-thumbed course books, our afternoons spent bundled up in borrowed jumpers & enjoying long walks with good coffee & my camera in hand.

We sought refuge from numb hands visiting art galleries, emerging to darkness at four o'clock & winding scarves around every inch of bare skin. Our heating was broken for about a month all in all & so, once home, we kept warm by huddling around the oven every evening, awaiting puff pastry pies or big pans of vegetarian chilli that would also serve as lunch the next day, retiring to bed before more of the same.

- Porridge in bed - Sleepy boyfriend waiting for the kettle to boil - Catching snowflakes on Regents Canal - Leftover veggie chilli with cheddar - 

Now that I have graduated & am working (albeit grudgingly) full-time, I find that these leisurely days are more few & far between but are more precious for their rarity. We still have our bleary-eyed mornings before I roll into the shower & we still have a pan of lentils simmering on the hob most nights, although our number of well-thumbed novels has likely doubled since then. One of my new year's resolutions last year was to take more photographs & I'm happy to say that that was mostly fulfilled & I have handfuls of photographs that are very evocative of certain times of year that we've spent together. 

Here's to plenty more! - O.