Can you believe it? It is two years since I started this little blog! It has been quite an exciting year but not as exciting as the first year when I visited Turkey, South Africa and America and took a road trip around England.
![]() Even though I finished my trip to New York and Washington just before my 1st blog birthday, I did post all about it in this year. Over 500 photos and 25 blog posts chronicle my first trip to the United States and the beginning of my love affair with New York! |
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In mid-August, Mister Emm rushed back to South Africa for some emergency dental treatment. Yes, that’s right. It cost less to go home, have a holiday and get the treatment than it would have cost to do it in London (and we got more than one quote!). In September we moved house again which was pretty horrible and then my Mum moved over here from South Africa. Let’s just agree that September rushed by in the blink of an eye and we were all happy to emerge unscathed on the other end! |
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![]() At the end of October, I chopped off all my hair for charity in the Halloween Haircut Horror. I chopped ten inches off my pony tail and sent it to a charity that makes wigs for cancer patients. |
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![]() December began in hilarious fashion with me commenting that it was too sunny to be winter only to be proven dramatically and unmistakeably wrong two weeks later when I was very lucky to get home after heavy snow just about brought London to a stand still. |
![]() Instead of succumbing to the winter blues, we decided to turn it all around and we went off to the cosy old Hawkwell House for a charming winter retreat for Christmas. It was everything we had wanted it to be – warm, cosy and full of Christmas cheer. |
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![]() At the end of January, I went on my second photography course and learnt about camera settings and the manual mode. I set about to capture the essence of London in my photo essay for the day. |
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There were lots of photos of winter sun and heavy snow which were both fine with me. The only thing I don’t really like in winter is the never ending grey! |
![]() At the beginning of February, we took a trip Up North and visited the area where I lived until I was nine years old. I also introduced you to my grandfather and told you a bit about my family history. |
![]() In February, we began the slow process of emerging from our winter hibernation and we went to the theatre to see the Garrick Theatre production of The Little Dog Laughed. We also went to the ShockWaves NME Awards Tour 2010 which was a lot of fun. |
![]() We got our first sighting of Spring in March and I gave the first of my updates on the Shard and London Bridge Quarter development. |
![]() It was our wedding anniversary at the end of March and we took a lovely trip to the Isle of Wight. We took a ride on the grand old Isle of Wight Steam Railway and had the most glorious four days there. One of these days, I am sure I will finish posting about that too! |
![]() In April I began my series A Window Into South Africa where I interviewed normal South Africans in the run up to the World Cup. |
![]() I attended the launch of the Pizza Express summer menu and met lots of other great London bloggers. It was a fab evening and we got to make our own pizzas. |
![]() We spent a rather rainy but brilliant day in Southbank in the middle of May and met up with our good friend Gavin who is living in Seattle. |
![]() May was all about the MyCommunity competition which culminated in the awesome sunset flight on the London Eye. It was a really awesome experience and once again, I got the chance to meet other London bloggers. |
![]() In June I ran the Race for Life for the third time to raise money for Cancer Research UK. You can still take advantage of the chance to sponsor me there and receive a month’s free advertising on my sidebar. I also posted some gorgeous photos of St Paul’s Cathedral and the surrounding areas. |
![]() We went to see Green Day at Wembley Stadium which was amazing. It definitely made me determined to have a new and better camera by the time I see Muse at Wembley in September! |
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Wow. I don’t know about you but I’m exhausted now!!! I think this post took four hours to type up!! The coming year is going to be a bit more exciting, I believe, with trips to Serbia, Scotland and South Africa this year and hopefully even more travelling goodness in the first six months of next year. Mister Emm has promised to do more spontaneous travelling once he gets his British passport next year so hopefully that will mean weekend trips to Prague, Paris and Brussels for Emm in London. Happy birthday dear blog!
Happy Birthday to You,
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Happy Birthday Dear Emm in London,
Happy Birthday to You.
Congratulations, and long may it continue :-)
What a year! Emm in London is always a joy to read, dear friend. Wishing you many exciting adventures to come :-)
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Congratulations on your blog's 2nd birthday! You have had quite an adventure in the last year!
ReplyDeleteHappy Blog Birthday.
ReplyDeleteI truly enjoy reading your blog and I love your photographs.
Congratulations and I hope the next year will be filled with fun adventures for you to blog about.
Happy Birthday Emm's blog.
ReplyDeleteI would say "happy birthday to you" Emm, but for some reason I think a two year old can't spell or type.
Either that or your a baby genius!
Well done Emm. I enjoyed this post which reminds me how long I have been reading your excellent blog.
ReplyDeleteI have a question. How do you get the rounded corners on your images? I think they look really cool.
Congratulations! It's quite a feat to be at it for two years and to keep it so interesting! I really enjoy your blog and hope you keep posting! Also, today's post was a wonderful retrospective...I'll have to go back and catch up on some of the ones I missed. Congrats again!
ReplyDeleteHi Emm..yay Congrats..Happy Birthday..what a fabulous post..I enjoyed reading about all your adventures...fabulous!! You are super awesome..a really wonderful read!
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Happy Birthday Emm's blog. Happy Birthday to You!
ReplyDeleteCongrats Emm great post,i always enjoy looking at your photos especially from around London, being a Londoner myself.
ReplyDeletekeep up the good work
Steve
You are really flourishing in London. You've been doing all this exciting stuff, I'm quite envious.
ReplyDeleteHappy Blogging Birthday Emm!! :)
ReplyDeleteAnd what a great post this one is too. It seems you have indeed been a busy wee thing! And I feel I've missed so much too, so I'll have to use your links in this post to go and have a catch up.
Looking forward to hearing all about your adventures throughout the next year.
Suzy
Happy Birthday *clink* and here's to many more years of happy blogging ;)
ReplyDeleteHAPPY BIRTHDAY to EMM IN LONDON and to the amazing EMM who made it happen.
ReplyDeleteCheers :)
PS: looking forward to Serbia :D
Well done Emm! Make an effort to go to Prague but take it from me a weekend is not enough. So many beautiful buildings and parks for you to photograph. Why Serbia? Sounds fun.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! And yes, despite my lack of commenting, I am still here reading, taking it all in! Good ole Goole Reader....!
ReplyDeleteIf you want suggestions on cameras, do let me know! I love telling people what they should.....I mean, I love chatting about and recommending cameras!
And all those travel plans, but no Mexico?! Tsk!!!
Whew, I am out of breath just reading this.
ReplyDeleteLife is what you make it and you make yours absolute magic. Enjoy!
Happy Birthday...2 years is a hell of long time in the world of blogging...Keep up the great work..!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday!! ....and many more!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats, Emm!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on two amazing years, Mandy! Love reading about your adventures :-)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Emm! That sounds like a fantastic year, and we surely enjoyed it thanks to your blog. Congratulations too for the "blog of note" in Blogger, and for the Mikka concert too! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you sooooo much for all the bloggy-birthday wishes everyone! I got most of your kind wishes while I was in Serbia and it made me feel quite special!
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