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A family blog capturing our daily life and adventures as a family of six - the calm, the chaos and the moments in between.

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Early morning wanders around the deserted streets

Early morning wanders around the deserted streets of York, where the shopfronts are so beautifully quirky. I find something new every time I visit.
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PS: Scroll for socks 🧦 and ghosts 👻
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This month's theme: Doors & Thresholds
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This is my view of everyday life in England for @around_the_world_2026 - an international collaborative photography project sharing ordinary details that reveal where we call home.
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This project isn’t about landmarks. It's about the small, often unnoticed moments that make each place different.
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🌍 #AroundTheWorldIn2026
📍 York, England

Ordinarily the girls' shoes are deposited in a hig

Ordinarily the girls' shoes are deposited in a higgeldy piggeldy, messy, disorganised, scattered heap that gradually spreads across the hallway.
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Every so often (we're talking maybe twice a year 😂), one of them decides to tidy them up and for a day or two I can pretend that they'll stay in a neat row like that.
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I couldn't resist documenting it - it'd be rude not to in such pretty light - because these tiny moments from our days make up the story of their teenagerhood and those are exactly the things I want to remember forever.
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Welcome to #thekidswerehereloop where we try to capture the beauty in the chaos of living with children. We opt to find the joy in the imperfection. Click the hashtag to follow along and see how each artist has turned a mess into a memory.
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#theteenage_hub #loveourbigkids #storytellingphotographer #mumofteenagers

One second a day, every day, in February... . All

One second a day, every day, in February...
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All of my Dad's anniversaries, pancakes, a uni trip to York, sunrises & sunsets, revision and exams, rainbows, there was one day where it didn't rain for the whole day(😲), and Hamilton!
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✨️💚🐈‍⬛🌼🚗🌅🌧🥞📚🌈🎭☀️❤️✨️
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@1secondeveryday #1secondeveryday #1SEme #onesecondeveryday #makingmemories #momentsmatter

Forever obsessed with documenting the most ordinar

Forever obsessed with documenting the most ordinary, everyday moments and every tiny piece of magic they contain ✨️
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“Photography is an art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them” ~ Elliott Erwitt
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We are a group of photographers who love #faceless photography and have come together to share our faceless images. Follow along to see our work or visit #facelessloop
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Next up is @mpatel_diaries
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#documentaryfamilyphotography #everydaymagic #thisissixteen

Keeping another little promise to myself ✨️ . Whic

Keeping another little promise to myself ✨️
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Which do you prefer - colour or black and white? I couldn't decide...
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We’re comfortable on the side of the lens no one sees but we struggle to include ourselves in the frame. Follow the loop to see our efforts in making sure we are on #bothsidesofthelens26
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Next up is the forever inspiring and utterly gorgeous @kirstylarmour

Discovered this little love note from one sister t

Discovered this little love note from one sister to another and *may* have got a teeny bit emotional 🥹💌🫶❤️
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Welcome to #thekidswerehereloop where we try to capture the beauty in the chaos of living with children. We opt to find the joy in the imperfection. Click the hashtag to follow along and see how each artist has turned a mess into a memory.
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#theteenage_hub #loveourbigkids #mumofteens #honestmotherhood

🌼 Daffodils for my Dad 🌼 . 11 years gone and I sti

🌼 Daffodils for my Dad 🌼
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11 years gone and I still think about him every single day. He'd be celebrating his 75th birthday in a couple of weeks time if he was still here. I'm pretty sure there would have been a party. I wonder all the time about what he'd be like now, what he'd think about me, what he'd think about my girls. He'd be damn proud of them, I know that much.
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Grief (whether it's the loss of a person, a pet, a job, a relationship, a version of yourself that you once were, or even a version of yourself that you thought you were going to be) doesn't get any easier, or any softer, over time. At least, not in my experience.
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You simply make space inside of you to accommodate it, and you carry it with you as you move: living your life; loving your people; doing your best to make the most of every single moment because you know exactly how much those moments all matter.
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I read somewhere (I think it was @liveforlines who shared these wise words a while ago) that "small joy is how we survive big grief" and that made a lot of sense to me. I felt it too, deep in my bones, which is why I wrote it down. I've made space for that too. They live side by side inside me, joy and grief. You can't have one without the other.
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“Photography is an art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them” ~ Elliott Erwitt
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We are a group of photographers who love #faceless photography and have come together to share our faceless images. Follow along to see our work or visit #facelessloop
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Next up is the amazing @r_wardphotography

One second a day, every day (all 1,842 of them 🥴),

One second a day, every day (all 1,842 of them 🥴), in January.
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@1secondeveryday #onesecondeveryday #1secondeveryday #1SEme #januarymoments #makingmemories

I set up a Substack called 'We're All Made Of Stor

I set up a Substack called 'We're All Made Of Stories' over two years ago, wrote twenty draft posts and then promptly published precisely none of them 🙈.
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At the start of this year, I made a quiet little promise to myself to publish one post a month. Today is the very last day of January and I kept that promise 🙌 It's only a little intro post, but it's there.
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I've really missed writing deep, personal, thoughtful pieces in recent years and now it feels like it's time to reconnect with it. If you fancy reading (and subscribing 🥰) the link is in my bio.
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It'll be an eclectic mix of stories covering anything and everything from motherhood and love and travel, and joy and grief and therapy, and all the inevitable messiness and infinite magic of being human and existing in this world.
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See you there?
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“Photography is an art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them” ~ Elliott Erwitt
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We are a group of photographers who love #faceless photography and have come together to share our faceless images. Follow along to see our work or visit #facelessloop
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Next up is @agnesszlapkaphotos
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#substack #mirrorphotography #tellmeyourstories

I am so, so proud of this one. She had minor surge

I am so, so proud of this one. She had minor surgery this morning and had to confront two of her biggest fears/hates - needles and feet - at the same time. She was super brave and handled it all with incredible resilience alongside her trademark, unique, quirky sense of humour.
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She's now sporting a comically large, cartoon-like bandage on her big toe and she gets to stay home from school for the next few days 🙌
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I also really love these two photos of her - it's rare that she lets me capture her on camera any more and these were technically test shots but they make me smile every time I look at them.
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“Failure is part of the process itself." ~ Lily Hevesh
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Our community of @clickprophotographers have come together to amplify our voice as women photographers. Next up is @aptubinisphotography
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To see more work from our amazing Click Pro Elites, check out @clickproeliteloop and navigate to the tagged tab to scroll all posted images.
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#clickproloop012026
#januarymoments
#thisisseventeen
#teenagelife
#mumofteens

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