Hi! Welcome to my newly declared photoblog.

I’ve always loved taking photos – I’ll say I’m not half bad, especially with my nice new camera. And I’ve always loved being lost, too. :D

To start this thing off, a picture of Hylands House, Chelmsford, Essex. It was taken July, 2007, on my gorgeous, reliable, but aging FinePixA405. It’s become zoom error prone and, whilst a good whack fixes that, sometimes you just have to give up on your favourite camera and find something new.

Hylands House is a three hundred year old, grade three listed, building that’s been through a lot. Once, when the property went into the hands of the County Council, they were going to leave it to rot and then sell off the land – and then it got named a grade three listed building, which meant that they HAD to look after it. A few million pounds, one floor less, and lovingly restored (and with extra land, taking it from four hundred something to five hundred acres) house.

Hylands has been used as a look-alike White House. The Park is open to the public all year ’round, and is the place where people take their children and walk their dogs as it is, in fact, the largest area of accessable green space for a bit of a way. It is also host to the V festival every year, and has recently been host to the scout’s Jamboree.