Beaulieu, Bond and More!

“I want to be more like James Bond, and less like Ian Fleming.”
― Jarod Kintz,

[Jaws] Richard Kiel with William!

The weekend was spent relaxing, and then venturing down to Beaulieu motor museum for a bit of James Bond, Top Gear and other assorted car geekery-ness. It coincided with my Boyfriend’s Birthday and with the presence of Blanche Ravalec and Richard Kiel – Jaws and Dolly from James Bond. So naturally, we had to be frightfully British and do a spot of Sunday afternoon queuing.

[Jaws] Richard Kiel

And queue we did do! It took a fairly long time to get to the front, and we were the first batch in along with all the Bond fangirls (more men than women though!) Staring at the back of a 007 T-Shirt for 2 hours was a different way to spend a Sunday at least…!

[Dolly] Blanche Ravalec

[Dolly] – Blanche Ravalec

There were other awesome cars too – remember that Granny Mobile from Top Gear? The OAP friendly car? It was there, in all its glory! Plus other assorted Bond Cars, some traditional old time vehicles and lots of other exciting bits and pieces…

I promise, more Photography will be blogged in the near future. As I’m writing this I have one of those smug smiles on my face that can only come from having just finished a 3,000 word report to conclude a whole year of University. The smile falters, but only slightly, as I remember I was quite stupid and decided to undertake two years of University at once – and have an exam two weeks tomorrow. As I said, it only slightly falters. Until I remember that I’ve signed up for the exact same ordeal as of October…!

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Sunsets, Blossom and Bluebells

“I’ll wait for you under the bluebells. I’ll be there always.”

Three of my most favourite things to Photograph. So imagine how pleased I was to capture a few snaps of each this weekend. There was rain, there was sun and there were bluebells! It’s that time of year again. It was beautiful sight to see a forest covered in the colourful flowers, and we weren’t the only ones out in force with the camera.

With the final month of this years university courses coming up, the time I have to take Photographs, and probably even breathe, will be limited. But I cannot wait to have a Summer off – I haven’t had one since starting the degree since we worked through Summers before. So I’m looking forward tremendously to having some time to just not have to think about writing essays or revising for exams!

So these may be my last photos for a few weeks, but don’t go anywhere! I’ll definitely make up for it when I return! In the meantime, enjoy a few more Bluebells, Blossoms and the odd sunset…

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