I have loved taking photographs since I was eight, though I have never been interested in the technical side; merely pointing and shooting my way through black and white, colour slides, Polaroid and back to colour prints until digital changed photography for all of us. Suddenly we could take lots and lots of pictures and I became addicted. When I finally succumbed to a smart phone I was even more obsessed; joining those I had previously sneered at as they gave everyone a pictorial commentary on their meals or child’s tantrums.

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, my Website… all waiting to be filled with pictures. Here are this week’s silly selection. A week of all weathers made it especially fun.

The phenomenum of freezing rain created real frosted windows.All Fired Up Cafe provided a winter retreat.

http://potterycafebournemouth.co.uk/

Then suddenly the snow melted and the sun shone.

Boscombe Pier is full of musical instruments.

On Friday we had torrential rain and more photo opportunities…

…on the bus. What luck that the first bus to come along was…

https://www.bybus.co.uk/features-offers/blog/the-gallery-bus-such-fun

Back into town to ‘All Fired Up’ to collect my fired camper van; a money box to save my author earnings and a reminder to get on with writing my camper van detective’s novel.

Every chapter of my website is full of photographs.

https://www.ccsidewriter.co.uk/

You can read two novellas and a short story featuring  Tobias Elliot Channing, the young camper van detective, in Someone Somewhere.