Felix jumped for the first time today. Unfortunately I didn’t get it on camera, but when I asked the boys to practise jumping, they decided to help Felix jump off the decking. It was that or the table!!

Inspired by the recent gardening evening course, I have potted on some primroses…. whether or not I actually plant them out is another matter.

  Today I spent a couple of hours spent in a studio for some much needed practice with flash lights – thanks so much to Tony for being a willing and able sitter.

There are lots of photographs framed and hanging in our house and Barnaby is always curious about who is the subject and why their photo was taken. There is one of his younger brother Alexei taken when he was a few months old, lying on the floor with blocks above him spelling out his name. […]

  Today Barnaby had an inset day and so we decided to go to The Big Smoke as a treat, whilst the two younger boys were packed off to nursery. We had a lovely day at The Natural History Museum and both of us leant so much! As a keen cyclist, Barnaby loved the Barclays […]

  Finding myself with 20 minutes to spare before school pick up, and driving along with camera to hand in case of photo opportunities, I seized the opportunity and pulled into a lorries parking layby on the A4074, a very busy road between Oxford and Reading. I find the views stunning around here in South […]

  Ok so today was meant to be a photograph on some aspect of an evening class on the joys of growing vegetables….. however, we arrived late and the teacher was already in full swing, and there was not much to photograph really, save for a few soil samples! Just before we stepped out for […]

  Well not quite the view from our back garden – you have to hop over the fence and walk across some scrub land, and then you come across this vista. Not bad.

  Not much time for a photo today, after a busy weekend and so with tired children to entertain, but how handy is Justin’s House showing on the computer? Out loud belly laughs in fact! Now I am up to date with my posts, yey, so I hope to get them up here in a […]

  A lovely Sunday afternoon walk in the woods with friends – the light here was just fantastic.