I had a couple of photos on my camera camera but I accidentally deleted them in my half-awake state. Just a couple of macros; nothing inspired.

The 4 continues to impress me. App creators are really doing wonders with the camera, and I’ve now settled on a mix of Hipstamatic and Camera+ as a complete replacement for the native camera app. Camera+ could be a little quicker to respond, but you can’t argue with the results. Well, you could, but you’d be stupid to – they’re photos; they can’t argue back.

I’ve switched to my 50mm for a little while. Thinking about selling the 24-70 and getting a 35mm prime – it’s like £1000 just sat in my camera bag most of the time. Seems such a waste.

Shoes are functional. They go on your feet and make it easier to walk on rough surfaces. I used to love shoes, but vegetarianism destroyed that for me. There are basically no mildly attractive shoes that don’t use leather or suede and don’t grind up horses to attach soles. It’s annoying. I used to love my green nikes, but Nike don’t make a single animal-friendly shoe. I once tried to find a pair of Orchid Kevin Porters, but he stopped riding for Orchid so they don’t make a vegan shoe any more. I now go for anything that’s canvas and looks like the sole is vulcanised. I normally end up with converse.

Take all of the above, and limit your choice to size 2.5 – 3 (UK) and you’ve got how annoying it is to buy shoes for Charlotte.

Update: So I’ve been informed by Henry at Vegan Kicks that Nike uses animal-friendly glue and synthetic leather in a lot of their shoes, so I’ve got to keep my eye open and do better research in future! Thanks Henry!

Today, as a favour, and thinly veiled attempt to look at cute little kittens, we’re looking after Benjie and Jem’s cat Artemis and her day-old kittens. Not exactly an ideal situation for day-old kittens, I agree, but there’s really no other option.

Amelie does not know what to make of it all.

Boring though the landscape was, there were highland cattle and a cool-looking 12th-century church with a very friendly woman inside. Got me thinking and talking about campanology – something I’ve not though/spoken about for absolutely ages. I’ve developed a relatively morbid curiosity about whether I could still do it, but I doubt anything will come of it.

There are snails everywhere today. Some of them have these cool, tiger-like markings on them. Odd as it may seem, just watching them for a while is actually really interesting.

Bones is a cat. He’s a naughty boy cat. He likes to sleep on keyboards. I think he has the cat version of narcolepsy. He falls asleep mid-playfight. It’s pretty funny.

It would seem that spring has been sprung; there are animals everywhere. I want a puppy.