What A Year

Wow what a year this has been ! I've managed to keep most of my resolutions

and the best thing is I now have my new website set up with a new blog and a fantastic new wedding website So im signing off from blogger.

Adios see you on the other sites

Happy New Year

I love this time of year when you can start planning, full of high hopes and big dreams for the coming year.

I'll keep you posted on my NY resolutions.

So i'm hoping that not only is it a Happy and Healthy New Year but that its also bright, beautiful and yours.

Orly x

Sorted

Wow

Just how busy have I been, I'm pleased to say that I have nearly finished my new website and my business plan for next year is finally finished.

Now to plot a course on the calendar to include all the things that I want to do !

Watch this space

Orly x

This much I know

The resilience of the human spirit never ceases to amaze me, and should never be underestimated. The human race is at its most capable with its back against the wall.

Life is a great leveller shit happens to us all, how we deal with it, is what truly sets us apart and defines our characters.

Good health is seriously underrated and truly priceless. It is the greatest gift.

You can’t choose your family and your friends are the family you choose to choose, no one ever asks would your family choose you.

There are no problems without solutions; it’s just that we may not always like the solution.

Sunday is my day, nothing beats an early morning walk to get the papers, sausages fried in a cast iron frying pan, followed by a late lazy Sunday lunch, a good wine and great company.

Family trumps money any day what’s the point in having it if you are lonely. I would be nothing without mine.

I’m a photographer because no two days are ever the same and I get to indulge my eccentricity.

Fashion should be boundless at the very frontier of our imagination, I never understood it when a good friend of mine said that she “would bleed for fashion” until I touched haute couture. It was a true epiphany that’s what fashion should do; elevate you.

The human body is the single best example of engineering genius.

My biggest flaw is thinking that everyone wants to be happy; I can’t stand to see suffering. I find it hard to accept that there are some people who are at their happiest when they can be unhappy victims of circumstance who don’t have to take responsibility for their own lives. As I get older I get more tolerant of it.

I hope I have given you something to think about.

Love, Life & Loyalty.

O x

‘Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond imagination. It is our light more than our darkness, which scares us. We ask ourselves – who are we to be brilliant, beautiful, talented, and fabulous. But honestly, who are you to not be so?

It is not in some of us, it is in all of us. While we allow our light to shine, we unconsciously give permission for others to do the same. When we liberate ourselves from our own fears, simply our presence may liberate others.’

- Marianne Williamson in Return to Love: Reflections on a Course in Miracles

Ludlow Food Festival

A great time was had by all, as the organisers from the Ludlow Food Festival managed to pull out the stops to give us all a great festival.

Despite the recession, the festival maintained its up beat atmosphere and attracted visitors of all ages from far and wide. Helped of course not least by the spirit lifting presence of Chase Distillery making the first pure English Potato Vodka, I can give first hand acknowledgement of its smoothness given that I am a Belvedere Girl at heart. For those not into the spirits there were numerous ciders and beers to taste notably the Hobsons, and Woods Breweries.

The main attraction of course was bright,beautifully fresh and plentiful, not content to shop and cook for yourself well,then, they provided the perfect position for a summer feast at the aptly named Chefs table restaurant created by Gourmetlife and operated by the Lion Hotel reasonably priced at £15 for 2 courses, The Midlands platter deserves a special mention that was worth the price alone.

I managed to conquer my fear of heights and traipse up the tower with shouts of "orf with her head" ringing in my ears.

Looking forward to next year .

O x