Cheers I’ve just ordered my new diary – I love new diary time. The first thing I do when I unwrap it is turn to December and write reminders to not to get caught up in outer madness and enjoy the month for its own sake. This year I’m doing a daily drawing of...
I just love this song from my childhood, maybe you arn’t old enough to remember it but I have to say you must look it up, we used to try and sing along and get all the words wrong, so many of them too! Check out Half a sixpence with Tommy Steele, Your kids will...
‘Balloons!’ Woohoo – party house located, next stop the gateway to mayhem. I’ll not forget the first freedom-crazed mum bounding towards us chirping ‘You can LEAVE them!’ As she sped out the gate I wasn’t certain she understood it was just for a couple of hours....
We had a leak. I didn’t know we had a leak until I needed to find something in my big miscellaneous folder slid in a gap between a desk and an outside wall. Everything in the folder had fused together: the baby red books now keeping all those birth weights and growth...
The power of a photograph. I called for a gathering in the woods and told my friends to bring photos of themselves as children. We pegged up our snaps on a line between the trees and cooed and aaahed at all the sweet little faces. Then we sat by the campfire and I...
I find it funny that I studied photography myself at college, for a while. I had a very basic camera, nothing flashy, the sort that old photographers would say ‘Yes good basic camera that, you can’t go wrong.’ I was arty, I could spot an interesting location and frame...
