It’s always nice to get a hand with the washing the up. I could have used the dishwasher, but I like to put that on as I go to bed as it makes such a relaxing noise.

I want to redo this as it looked a lot better in my head than how it came out. The two clones are too far apart, the light’s a little harsh, I don’t like the towel in the right hand side and I think there should be some more pots and pans on the draining board. A wide angle lens does give you a lot more room to fit clones in though. It’s really odd how it’s distorted my arms so that the outer ones look really thick and the inner ones could belong to Kate Moss.

Before I got my wide angle (10-20mm) lens, I’d read lots about them and looked over hundreds of wide angled photos that I liked. There’s a few pictures I have in my mind that I want to take, but it’s going to take a lot more practice before I’m good enough to take them. There is, however, a few things that none of the books or articles tell you about taking pictures at 10mm.

Firstly, its easy to bump into things when looking through the viewfinder. Things that are centimetres in front of the lens can look like they’re metres away. It’s disconcerting, but it also means if you take pictures of people they get uncomfortable with how close they think you are to them. Also, they always think you’re not getting them in the picture as you can often point what looks like away from them. Several people thought I was taking pictures of their feet, when they were perfectly centred. I’m sure you could use that for some kind of covert picture taking.

I find that I can make myself feel a little bit dizzy if I move the camera around too much while looking through the viewfinder. You notice the distortion much more if you move the camera (things in the centre are much less distorted than those at the edges) so you get this weird effect of buildings changing shape as you pan. Do it too much or too fast and you soon start to feel ill.

The thing I’ve found most surprising is how quickly you get used to being able to fit so much in. It feels like you get a much wider view than your eyes give you naturally, I’m not sure if this is true, but that’s the way it feels. At first it seems odd, but you soon get used to it being normal. It’s like when you get a big new TV that seems to take up too much of your front room, but then after a couple of weeks it seems normal and other people’s TVs suddenly seem tiny. The problem is that if I use a normal lens now, I can’t take any pictures as I can never fit anything in. As you get used to it and it seems normal, you want to get even wider, I’m thinking of saving up for a fisheye, no, maybe one of those weird 360 degree lenses that you point to the sky.

Can you guess? I’ll give you a clue, it’s not: a) polish for my shiny head; b) the new “Striking Model Poses for Dummies” book; c) anything kitchen related.