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It’s not often that I take “warts and all” photos of the boys when I know they’re heading for a blog post. Generally there’s a clearing of the planned photo site, and some care is taken over what they’re wearing. This isn’t one of those posts. This is a children-running-about-in-pants, bath towels on the washing…
Since December when we left for Butlins under the grey cloud of the lurgy, Hero has been rolling in a new set of baby wheels. Hero is two and a half and will probably be my baby forever in my eyes – and so he has the luxury of his very own stroller still. It…
Have you ever seen anything so cute on the roads today as this little milk float below? Me either. It’s been over 8 years since we had our milk delivered by a float. Sadly, this is not for us grown ups. It’s the world’s smallest milk float, driven by Ella’s dad (of Ella’s Kitchen fame)…
So, at the moment I’m writing my BlogOn presentation on how to shoot your children – or rather, how we can learn a few things and be photographing our children better. I’m so caught up over what to actually say in my 45 minute session, and so I decided to try some experiments of my…
I’m going (so long as our baby cooperates and stays put!) to Britmums 2014 in just a few short weeks! I went last year and had the best time, despite having no idea where I was going and ending up relying on a kind taxi driver to save me. This is why, heavily pregnant, I’m…
Beans had his first day of pre-school today, after two settling-in-with-mommy sessions. He’s been allocated five afternoons as we’re entitled to 15 hours of pre-school fun, but we’re seeing which afternoons suit him best. As as he’s a summer birthday, our poor little Beaner is going to be wiped out for one, and secondly I’m…