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Mounjaro

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Mounjaro weeks 3 and 4

Weeks 3 and 4 taking the weight loss medication Mounjaro and the end of first month weigh in 👀

By Annie Spratt • 3 min read

Mounjaro week 2

How I got on taking the weight loss medication Mounjaro in the second week.

By Annie Spratt • 2 min read

Mounjaro week 1

How I got on taking the weight loss medication Mounjaro in the first week.

By Annie Spratt • 2 min read

Taking Mounjaro for perimenopausal weight gain.

I have been slowly gaining weight since peri-menopause started. The more weight I gained, the more random pains I started to feel. Back, hips, and recently, knees.

By Annie Spratt • 2 min read

Digital Photography

Everything digital photography related. Camera reviews, photo blogs, inspiration and more.

3 posts

Fujifilm X100V: the most disappointing camera I've ever bought.

There's one negative about the Fujifilm X100V, and it's an unforgivable thing which to be honest renders it pretty useless as a camera for anything, especially street photography...

By Annie Spratt • 4 min read

Fancied a change.

I spend a lot of time walking outdoors, in nature, enjoying birdsong, noticing the subtle changes to the landscape around me. But sometimes, as with anything in life, one craves a change of scene.

By Annie Spratt • 4 min read

Embracing the everyday.

Here's my little photo dump, shot with my Canon EOS 5 and 50mm 1.8 lens. Because although they are just 'boring nature photos' I do think I need to share more of the everyday. 💚

By Annie Spratt • 3 min read

Film photography

Everything analogue related. Camera reviews, examples of different film stocks, inspiration and more.

2 posts

Yosemite Valley on Pro Image 100 35mm film

Every year my husband asks what I would like for my birthday, and every year I say 'camera film please', except this year. This year I turned 50 and he got a lot more than he bargained for when I answered 'to go to Yosemite'. Go big or go home I say.

By Annie Spratt • 3 min read

NYC on Kodak Color Plus 200 35mm film

Examples of analogue photos taken on Kodak Color Plus 200 35mm film in New York.

By Annie Spratt • 3 min read

Everyday life

Stories of my everyday life.

2 posts

HDYGG - how does your garden grow?

Now this is a blast from the past. Way back, over a decade ago I used to write a weekly post about a garden I had visited and other people would join in – a linky.

By Annie Spratt • 4 min read

Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman’s Creative Sanctuary in Dungeness

On the windswept shingle shore of Dungeness in Kent stands Prospect Cottage—a modest black wooden house that became one of the most important creative spaces in modern British culture.

By Annie Spratt • 4 min read

Camera Reviews

Honest reviews of the analogue and digital cameras that I use regularly.

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Camera Reviews

Canon EOS 3 - a review after a year of using this 35mm SLR weekly

I've used this camera for just over a year and during that time I've used it weekly. Needless to say I know it almost as well as my husband of 15 years. Here's what I think of it... (the camera, not my husband, obvs.)

By Annie Spratt • 6 min read

Retro inspiration

Retro discoveries. Analogue images from back in time, from the 1880s to the 1990s, social history from across the world shared.

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Retro inspiration

1980s Shanghai on film

This weekend I've been scanning in some 35mm slides of Shaghai in the early 1980s and there are some absolute corkers. I'm always fascinated not only by how things used to look but the typography, advertisements, colours and tones too.

By Annie Spratt • 2 min read