A cygnet a day ...

It feels like an age since I posted on here!  Lots of things have been happening, I finally submitted my thesis and am in the middle of preparing to be examined.  I have just gotten a new job and am filling my head with ideas of finally developing a proper website for my photography!  Thoughts and feelings have been whirring like crazy in the past six weeks, but finding two lots of local cygnets has helped me pick up my camera, enjoy the sweeter things in life and brought a lot of calm in the face of a few storms.  Oh to be that fluffy and cute and small!  More shots will follow but I really wanted to say hello today.  I've missed you all.

An introduction and a birthday ...

Over here at A Camera's Country View we have some big news. Not only is today the lovely Rhid's birthday (happy birthday, I love you ♥ ), but we have to make an introduction to you.  We have had a new addition to the family, on Friday we brought home a lovely pair of kittens!  A little 12-weed old girl, Poppy, who had been found abandoned and an 8-week old boy, Yoda.  This isn't going to be a long post as I have to get back to playing with them but just wanted to share the news and tell you a bit about them.  Poppy has been such a brave little thing, wandering around and playing a lot.  Yoda is far more timid.  Unused to his surroundings he hid under the couch for about 12 hours but has ventured out and now they've made friends.  To be honest, Yoda was in awe of Poppy from the beginning, following her around and making cow eyes but Poppy wasn't too keen until something happened yesterday afternoon and she just went and slept on top of him!  I wasn't going to blog about them, it makes it even more upsetting if something horrible happens but then I thought about all the good things about posting about Kiki.  I have all the cute photographs and funny stories documented on here.  So I'm giving it another go.  I'll come back over the next few days and share some things, tell you what their favourite things to do are and I'm sure there will be plenty of photographs.  In the meantime, I'm about to eat homemade raspberry and white chocolate cake ('specially requested by the birthday boy), cook up a storm and play with tiny balls of fluff!  I hope that you all have a wonderful day too.

Yoda (left) and Poppy (right) = new bundles of joy