The boss

I am spending all of today in the home/office which is my favourite kind of working away while Simon established his workspace in a nearby cafe (our favourite Tea tree Tea cafe just across the road from us, so you could meet us there almost in our pjs we are feeling so ast home there). However I asked for a takeaway soya latte to be brought to me in the afternoon and this is what Jamie and Drew in the Tea Tree Tea cafe prepared for Simon to take upstairs! His and her's coffees, guess who is the boss!

After

I wrote about it here before - my graduation show!

It is now on the walls of Edinburgh College of Art, enjoy until 22nd of June!

Simon's breakthrough skateboarding performance

He might not be Danny MacAskill but for a first time it is not a bad job!

Summertime

I cannot believe how quickly weather has changed from one that would allow out only wearing autumnal coats to barefoot and almost boiling! After some work meetings this Friday we went to chill out in Haddington. Simon wearing his 'Marcello sunglasses' and shorts! I hope he is going to put on his blog a little video I did of him skateboarding on Lyovka's equipment, it was absolutely hillarious.

Colours of the warm lateafternoon sunshine were just amazing!

Here we are resting a bit on a warm bit of grass, Lyovka a bit redfaced as he was practising some headstands (he has so much energy he could lit up his grandparents house!) :

Glencoe

My professional life again took Simon and I to a far end of Scotland - we were comissioned by American clients to do a photoshoot in the Glencoe. We drove there a day before the photoshoot so that I would not have to stress to much on the day with my feeble driving skills. I was of course extremely stressed - driving on the left side in an unfamiliar, rented car, on a winding road in the mountains where other people drive fast - 70 mph at least even though the sign asks them to slow down to 40 mph. I got some tooting when being taken over on a double line by a 4x4 black Rangerover but I did not care - my task was to get us to our destination (Ballachullish village on the edge of Glencoe) not to kill us. I think my dad must have been watching my driving with my guarding angel from above because I've made it! Now I would like to continue with my Scottish driving lessons, however this time without an immediate deadline.

Some images from a blissfull evening in Glencoe, without midges. Taken on my mobile:

We were staying in a little cheap bed & breakfast owned by a charming landlady (Aurelia calls this type Mamma Africa so here we definitely had Mamma Alba) and equally charming decor. Images of the interior will definitely appear in Simon's hotel series! Every morning we were greeted with a full on fried breakfast and the freash air was getting us every day without fail - we were invariably in bed by 9.30 pm! (Our usual bedtime is more like 3 am...).

Gleoncoe is one of the most beautiful places in Scotland. It has a sinister side to it as well. 70 members of the MacDonald clan were brutally murdered by their own guests on 13th of February 1692.

Before...

Back in Britain

The parliamentary election has passed (excellent editions of a hillarious The Now Show should be still available on BBC Iplayer) and Gordon decided to give up, poor thing. The Queen is still going on strong though. I must say I like this portrait of her which I took picture of (in some public building), especially the palace interior, in subdued light, underexposed by the flash lighting the Queen, right behind her.