July felt incredibly busy and I will freely admit that I heaved an enormous sigh of relief when school finished for the summer. The thing that kept me going throughout the never-ending tiredness and inability to switch off my brain was the knowledge that as soon as the term was over we’d be escaping for a week to visit somewhere we’ve…
I take hundreds of photos every month and even more when we’re away on holiday! While I’ll be sharing plenty of photos from our recent week away in Jersey over the next few weeks in a series of dedicated blog posts, lots of them won’t get shared with anyone, let alone online. And yet the moments in…
Having three children means that our house is constantly noisy. Giggles and laughter, bickering and shouting, the TV, impromptu Sunday morning kitchen discos… it’s rarely quiet. (I tried to upload a video that the husband took of me dancing with the girls but it refused to load. Probably a good thing!) And then when the girls…
This is Part 2 of a blog about our day trip to Stratford-Upon-Avon. You can find Part 1 here. Once our tummies were full of lunch and ice cream from The Food of Love café, we headed to the other side of the street to Shakespeare’s Birthplace. There was a short queue to get in…
A year ago my wonderful best friend and her husband offered to drive all the way up to Staffordshire from Southampton to come and stay at our house overnight so my husband and I could go away for the weekend on our own to celebrate a year of marriage. We jumped at the chance – we…
Four years ago, the day after my 29th birthday, I began a ’30 Things Before I’m 30′ project. I gave myself just twelve months to complete thirty things on a list I’d created which contained a pretty random mixture of experiences I wanted to have, things I wanted to try and personal goals I wanted to achieve by…
This is the third and final installment of our week-long holiday in Bude in North Cornwall, covering the second half of our stay at The Beach Haven and detailing the things we got up to. You can find part one here and part two of the blog here. We’ve been home for nearly two weeks…
This is the second part of the blog about our week on holiday in Bude in North Cornwall. We did so many fun things (and I took sooooo many photos!) that this post only covers the first half of the week. There’ll be another (third and final) post covering the second half of our week coming…
I have been going to Bude in North Cornwall since I was a little girl. My aunt and cousins live there, and every summer my Mum and I would trundle down the motorway in Mum’s ancient Renault 5 to stay for a week. I spent many a happy hour playing in their enormous garden with them on their…
Hello! Welcome to my brand new blog ‘Picture Taker, Memory Maker’. I’ve been wanting to start my own family-based blog for a long time now, but wasn’t brave enough to take the plunge – after all, who would want to read about little old me and my *slightly* crazy family? I’ve been taking photographs since I was…