30 Day Photo Challenge 2015 - Week 2

Week 2 of the #30dayPhotoChallenge...

Day 14 - Wanderlust
My plan to get a shot in daylight today backfired after an officious security guard stopped me from taking a photo in Liverpool Street station (although it's barely the centre for people heading off to fulfil their wanderlust, more just City workers busy getting lunch). So it was back home to take another photo inside. I've been a subscriber to the Wanderlust travel magazine for as long as I can remember, so got a stack of them off a shelf. Antarctica, South America, Northern Lights, China, Mexico, etc... Happy memories.

So tomorrow is the start of Week 3 and therefore time for a new blog. Hopefully the inspiration I still haven't found will come. Tomorrow's subject is "Internet in Real Life", whatever that means...

Day 13 - Friends
I didn't have a chance to get any friend-related shots at work today and besides, people at work aren't really friends. So I then had a brainwave - a little packet of throat-soothing goodies always lies at the bottom of my handbag - Fisherman's Friends. I really ought to get commission from them as I'm always introducing new people to them! Anyway, here they are, larger than life.

Day 12 - Would I eat this?

Well the answer is yes! I wouldn't normally have picked out a bright orange, rock hard cheese, but I thought I'd give it a go. It's actually quite good (and is called Mimolette - aged for 18 months).

Day 11 - Love
Love is...

Day 10 - Portrait
This is my friend Georgina. Had a lovely Christmas lunch yesterday with what's called "Dog Club" - a group of friends I made a few years ago when I first got my puppy. We used to meet in the local park every day and our dogs would play and potter about and we'd chat. Now I have a full time job I rarely see them, so it's lovely to meet up with them.

Day 9 - Opposites
Not as easy as I thought, but I decided to get my lightbox, macro & extension rings and miniatures out for this one. My interpretation of heads and tails.

Day 8 - Laughter
Hard subject when you're at work all day. So, it's a photo of hubby - trying to make him laugh. This is his "laughing at me" face. I need an easier subject!

Meatopia

Meatopia: meat, drink, fire, music.

So hubby dragged me (happily) to another meaty food festival; this time to Meatopia. It was another gorgeous sunny day in the great setting of Tobacco Dock in Wapping. It was very different from Brisketfest, far bigger and far more vendors offering a huge array of different meats and cuts. We bought some tokens and met up with some friends who had arrived earlier and were already tucking in. Having to buy tokens for portions was a much more sensible idea than having 10 portions included, so we managed to keep the intake levels at a more comfortable level than at Brisketfest!

We wandered round and found our first dishes - some poussin cooked in a Thai-style sauce. It wasn't bad, but extremely messy to eat, as was pretty much everything.

After we scoffed it down (we were extremely hungry) we found some pulled pork which we shared. Large parts of cooked pigs sat on shelves and people buzzed around taking photos.

By this stage we were ready for a beer, so I headed off to one of the bars and hubby queued up for some duck wings from the Duck & Waffle stand. We headed back to the table to enjoy the food in the sun. The duck was actually the most disappointing dish we tried, with very little meat and just not that much flavour (especially disappointing since we'd had a truly delicious meal at the restaurant a couple of years earlier).

We then headed inside to try a few more dishes, including the most exquisite Hawksmoor beef and some lamb that had been brined in coffee for 12 hours.

Last but not least was Beau Myers, serving small burger buns crammed full of beef, melted cheese, some creamy sauce, and rather oddly, crushed spicy Monster Munches. It was very, very tasty, and I wished that I'd had two of those rather than the pork and duck!

(the Monster Munches!!) 

Apart from stuffing our faces, the rest of the day was spent wandering around a bit and sitting in the sunshine (I had to go inside after a while as it was too hot). There was lots going on apart from the stalls, with singers, DJs, a big band, a knife raffle, as well as various talks and demos.

We didn't manage to try all that many dishes, in the end, but went home feeling relatively normal and not as if we going to explode. Might try to be a bit more focused and planned on what to eat before going again.