32. Some Notes

Over the Easter Holidays, I was on holiday, so I made sure I made some notes, which I could include on this blog. They're fairly basic notes, but it's very important, to me, to include every last little bit I have done. I would also like to point out that a number of the Castles I wanted to visit were not opening until the end of March, which was very problematic. 



I've considered many things in these notes, including some work towards how I might show my final images. 

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