Not all photographers are created equal: if you want good photography, book a good photographer. It’s hard to recreate the big day in a studio when you get back from the honeymoon and discover all your pictures are duds. I watched a colleague (ironically a...

Someone once told me to find a picture of myself as a child, buy a lovely frame especially, and place it somewhere I’d see it everyday to remind me how adorable I am. I squirmed. Would you squirm? I really squirmed. It felt funny... but I did it. And I liked it. I...

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 something...

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 love...

‘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. To...

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...

When I see really old Victorian or Edwardian stiff-backed portraits where there’s a furry, feathery or scaly companion, I hone in on these splendid beings straight away. They must’ve meant a lot to the people to include them in the lengthy process. I imagine the...

We were cajoled into meeting up at the photographer’s stand to prop her up, six months old, on a box with her cousins. ‘Nan and Grandad will love it.’ We cooed and rattled things. She looked unimpressed. Shoppers squeezed passed. The boys grinned to order in front of...