I was really keen to try out my new birthday present - a shiny pink Canon compact camera, so we headed down to Little Venice this morning, taking photos as we went.

On the cafe boat at Little Venice.

Little Venice

We bumped in to these two cute little ducks and they were so tame.

We had lunch on the Narrowboat Cafe. I love their tuna melt paninis.

Little Venice is so picturesque at this time of year.

It was cold but we went down to Little Venice to feed the ducks - such a lovely way to get rid of stale bread.

Today was so much fun because Louise, one of my best buddies from high school, was down in London for a job interview. We started with lunch on the Narrowboat Cafe at Little Venice.

We started today by feeding the ducks at Little Venice which was nice and relaxing.

Afterwards we headed down to Little Venice where the Canal Cavalcade was taking place.

The cavalcade is a festival of canals with hundreds of boats and stalls.

I bought a candle which looks like a watering can.

In the evening we went down to Little Venice to watch an illuminated boat parade.

It was really pretty and all the boats were making different noises at they passed.

We then decided to take a canal boat from Little Venice to Camden.

Tom’s Dad found a pair of bright yellow reading glasses in Italy, which have a magnet in between the two lenses so you can pull them on and off quickly. Very futuristic and Euro chic!

The boat trip was lovely and I spotted many potential future dream houses.

On the way home, we spotted two foxes playing around in the grass at Little Venice.

They were really cute and not very timid at all.

Afterwards we headed to Paddington on a magazine hunt. We were in a newspaper and a few magazines, so we tried to hunt them out. I managed to pick up a copy of Oh Comely magazine, an awesome new magazine that Sarah Steel introduced me to.

The mag is filled with nice photography, illustrations and tutorials.

We walked down to Little Venice, collecting more pretty leaves along the way.

We stopped to see the ducks before heading to Paddington to do some shopping.

Today we decided to walk along the canal to Camden. The last time we did the full walk was when we were on holiday in 2006 and that was when we discovered Maida Vale and realised we wanted to live here.

After lunch we walked down to Little Venice where the sun was at the pretty point in the sky, so we took some photos.

We walked down to Little Venice and had lunch on the steps of Paddington Basin.

Tom took these amazing miniature photos of the steps which makes it look like an architect's model.