Happy St Patricks Day

Well a Happy St Patricks Day to all,

Don't know why I started the blog with that, I have no intention of really celebrating I've work to do!

Anyway, I promised to update with photography and marathon info, so here I am again with the latest.

I have all sorts of photography ideas buzzing round my head, from travel photography (reading a really great book at the moment, highly inspiring) to using an old Holga or Diana camera. I also have thoughts of getting a pretty decent transparency/negative scanner. Would love to scan some of my negatives or other peoples for that matter, and start putting some slide show type things together :) We shall see how things pan out.

Now onto the marathon, bit of depression in this area at the moment, I'm freakin' plagued with injury! On Sunday there I was full of good intentions and ready for the half marathon, or so I thought. I'd been getting a niggle in the right ankle, but it wasn't really stopping me from running, that is until Sunday came around! I literally ran for about 2 minutes and had to come back, there was no way it could stand any sort of impact! So so frustrated, there is swelling and a lot of tenderness, on Sunday I ended up going for a cycle instead as it has low impact. I had to do something to try and keep the fitness levels up. I've been doing all sorts to get the swelling and pain down, from exercises to methylated spirits, yes that's right, what a stupid and useless old wives tale!

Anyway there is still pain in it, and I can't risk it and run on it just yet, I'm just praying that it comes good again. I am keeping positive as my knee (fingers crossed) is ok again. I can't give up, I'm half way through training, and I will be doing this marathon one way or another..

Keep praying for me :) *grabs ice pack*

K x

The World is a pretty dark place right now

Greetings,

Just thought I'd put a post up about all the recent goings on in the news at the moment.

If it wasn't bad enough that we have our own shootings here in Northern Ireland, I've just learned that America and Germany have had 10 people people killed in a random act of violence! Why has the world become such an evil place, I guess it always had it's darkness, it just seems much more apparent to me now. 

   What I have noticed is that there is a real sense of togetherness in NI right now,  no-one wants to see old times returned here, and I just hope we can pull through all of this.

Right gotta get back to work, dragged in for extra hrs today, as staff are sick!! dammit I should have said no, there's freakin' HND work to be done..

Later

Kaz

 

Floggin' stuff

Afternoon all,

I think I need to start flogging some stuff so i can make a bit of moolah! I've got an old PC that is definitely on my to do list, I need to clean it up outside and in, and see if anyone wants it, might actually have a buyer, so we'll see :) It's hard to big up a computer that i'm not interested in anymore haha.. but still someone will get good use out of it.

 Also want to get a polaroid camera, as I just love the retro quality it gives off, all these to dos and creative ideas that I want to get going. I haven't made proper use of my time off yet, what with one thing and another, but it's oooon! Kaz is going to get Kreative :)

Money is clearly always a problem, I hate it!

*Marathon Update*

So i've been doing different kinds of exercises lately, swimming, cross training, and a wee light run. No big runs as of yet, but i'm going to try, try... an 8 miler on sunday. So please wish me luck, and pray that my old lady knee holds up :)

K

Facebook

Hi, 

Read an interesting article on facebook today: 

Dunno if there is any truth in it, anyone fancy reading the terms and conditions? Thinking about removing karen mcclintock photography group now :(

Fresh New start!

Well I decided to get rid of my old blog, lot of old tat on there that I really didn't want anymore. I'll keep it as a wee spare anyway though.

So here we are, fresh new start, hopefully get lots of photography updates on there, and possibly the odd marathon update, as that is becoming quite the saga!

Would really like a good personal photo project to get my teeth into, so if you would like to help me out with ideas, that would be great.

All for now,

Kaz