A Photographer's Life: October 2017

Hi again,
I went for an outing to Manchester with dad for my birthday (my birthday is August 29th - we went the day after).
Let me tell you about it...
On Wednesday the 30th of August, 2017, at 3:30 PM, all five of us got into the car, and started to drive.
We were driving to our friend's house, to drop off the other three kids, before mommy would drive me to daddy's work in Manchester. As we were early, we stopped at a furniture place and had a look at some possible furniture ideas for our home. The place looked like it was very recent (and so did the furniture!!).
Then we drove on, into the heart of Manchester, where we waited outside dad's workplace (called Peninsula). We did argue a bit over whether I should go inside the lobby and wait there (I didn't want to), but then daddy appeared, and mom drove off leaving me and dad behind.
Then we started walking! We walked and walked, until we came to a part of Manchester called 'The Northern Quarter'. Once there, we looked at various shop-windows, until daddy suddenly said, "This is where we're going first."
We had stopped outside a big - well, huge shop entrance, and by the look of the front window, I could tell it was an art shop.

I gasped! "really?!?"
Dad smiled and nodded, and we went in.
It was quite a big room, with so many art supplies that it almost took my breath away!!!!
But that wasn't all.
To the side, I caught sight of a big doorway and some steps leading downwards, with a sign saying 'More This Way', or something like that.

"Can we go down there?" I asked dad, pointing towards them. Daddy smiled again, and led me down. It was so cool!!

There were tons of isles of things related to art, from sewing needles to paintbrushes. Each isle had a label on it, saying (well, you can probably see it in the picture) things like 'Pencils' or 'Paste' and things like that.
Anyway, we looked around for about 20 mins or more, and then I suddenly spotted some more steps leading down to a 3rd level! I only had to point this time, and daddy took me down.
Now, this room was the least modern looking room of the three, for it was the room where they kept all the big, important stuff. I'm afraid I don't have a picture of this room, 😭 (I didn't actually take these pics anyway - I found them on the web 😆) but I can still describe it for you!! 😸
It had little peepholes that looked into hiring rooms. The first window looked into a laser-cutting machine room, with an intricately laser-cut wooden house

that looks amazing, don't you think? (I think this is the closest one I could find to the one I saw - I even typed in 'laser-cut wooden log house fred aldous'!!!)

Anyway, we ended up getting three things for me:

A pencil entirely made out of 8B graphite
A book on drawing animals
And a scratch art of a kitten!

After that, we walked out of the shop (because it was nearly closing time!!!) and into the street. There we found a graffiti art wall (a wall made especially so people could do spray-paint art on it) and I chose my favorite art piece:

Then we continued walking, and finally came to a building next to daddy's bike route to work.

"I cycle past this place every day", he explained.

Then I saw that it was a cafe. And then I laughed, and pointed to the title.

You'll never guess what it was called:

'The Cat Cafe'!!!

At first I just thought, Wow, what a coincidence! But soon I was to realize what it really meant...

When we got inside, we found ourselves in a waiting room, which I thought was pretty unusual for a cafe!! Then daddy went to the desk, and a lady gave us a locker key, and an iPad to complete a survey about things like 'I will not disturb the cats if they are sleeping or look tired' and 'I will not abuse the cats' and other things like that. Then the light suddenly dawned. I was in an actual cat cafe!!! Where people ate and drank while playing with cats!!!!!

I gave a little gasp. "I never knew such a place existed!!!" I kept telling dad as we unlocked our locker and put our stuff in it. Then we washed our hands at a special 'catnip handwash' dispenser, and I held my breath as we stepped into the room. And what a sight met our eyes!!!

(this picture was, again, from the web, but all pictures from now on - unless I say otherwise - will be taken by me or dad)

It was literally AM-AZ-ING!!!!!!!!!!!

There was a spiral ramp (which you can just see in the picture) and one of the cats went up it, walked along the 'catwalk' hanging from the ceiling, and then went to sleep and stayed there the whole rest of the time we were there!!

Anyway, I really loved it, and we stayed there for 45 mins and then left. (Everything was free except the time you were there, and the food)

Haha - there was even what looked like a cat toilet!!!

All in all, it was a very exciting experience!!!

Hi everyone,
Today me and mom decided to make some pancakes for me at breakfast. It seemed a pretty good idea, since I needed to learn how to make breakfast by myself.
So, we started. Here are the ingredients we used: (maybe you can make them better in the comments!!!)

Serves: 1
(looked bad...tasted great! It wasn't sticking together😔)

1/8 cup of coconut flour
1 tbsp. flax seeds
3 tbsp. water
1 tsp. maple syrup
1 tbsp. coconut oil, melted
2 pinches baking powder
cinnamon - as much as you like!!!
4 tbsp. soy milk (or any milk of your choice)

1. First, we put the 1/8 cup of coconut flour in a big bowl, and soaked the tbsp. of flax seeds in the 3 tbsp. water, like this:

2. Then, we melted the tbsp. coconut oil in the microwave (for 30 secs) and poured it into the flax seeds bowl. We also put the 1 tsp. maple syrup into the flax seeds bowl too, and then mixed it thoroughly.

Meanwhile, we put some cinnamon into the dry ingredients bowl and mixed it.

3. Then we carefully poured the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients bowl, and added the 4 tbsp. soy milk.

Then we mixed it...

...until it looked like this.

4. Meanwhile, we turned on the stove to a medium heat, plopped some coconut oil in the pan, swished it around, and then poured the pancake in once the pan was hot.