The photos continue... Phew, this has been a tough week. The hubby was back at work on Monday after a five week hol between jobs. Of course, in that time, the sprog and the babe had become completely used to having him around all the time (as, for that matter, had I) so it's been … Continue reading August break 2014: week two
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August Break 2014: lots of photos
Well, 31 photos to be precise. These are the first nine... Last year, I took part in Susannah Conway’s August Break for the first time. It’s a brilliant (and brilliantly simple) idea. For the month of August, you take a photo every day and publish it on your blog or share on Instagram (or Facebook … Continue reading August Break 2014: lots of photos
Styled: an Ikea jug
Last year I took a blogger’s photography course with Emily Quinton (you can read more about it here: Make light photography workshop). Last month, Emily set all her past students a challenge to take an object and style it three ways. It was a challenge I really wanted to take part in: styling is the … Continue reading Styled: an Ikea jug
The garden in June
I know, I know, I've been a bit garden-tastic over the past few weeks, what with all my chat about greenhouses and sheds and so on. I am working on some more craft-related posts at the moment too, you may be relieved to hear, but I couldn't resist joining in once more this week with … Continue reading The garden in June
Garden moodboard: June
I love my garden, but it sometimes feels as if I am in constant battle with it. And it with me. When I first started taking photographs for these garden moodboards, in May last year, I imagined that by the following year my whole entire garden would look beautiful, not just the odd flower. More … Continue reading Garden moodboard: June
An impatient gardener
Last Autumn we spent a weekend laying new turf in our garden and re-shaping the flower beds. In the beds, we dug out all the bulbs and plants (regular readers won’t be surprised to hear that 80 per cent of the plants were rhododendrons) with the plan that the following weekend, once the soil had … Continue reading An impatient gardener
A love of trees
If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll know have a bit of a penchant for photographing flowers. (For which read, my feed is stuffed full of floral photos, mostly taken on my daily wanderings round Peckham Rye Park.*) But there was another reason that my feed was 90% flowers: my crappy iPhone 3 which objected … Continue reading A love of trees
Growing, growing, growing
With a May bank holiday weekend coming up, and everything settling back to normal life after the arrival of sproglet two, I'm hoping to spend quite a bit of time out in the garden. Everything, but everything, needs attention. The weeds are rampant. There are veg seedlings in the greenhouse outgrowing their tiny planting modules … Continue reading Growing, growing, growing
Garden moodboard: May
No brain power for much chat today, with a one-week-old newborn, but I did manage to pop out into the garden yesterday morning to gather some flowers for my May moodboard… (For once) I’ll just let the photos do the talking…. This marks a full year since I started taking these photos. Interesting … Continue reading Garden moodboard: May
Outside
It's been a gloriously sunny few days here in London, but I've been rather too gone in pig to venture far out of the front door. Instead, afternoons have been spent lazing in the garden.* There's a little spot where I like to sit on a tiny brick wall underneath my lovely acer tree. I … Continue reading Outside
Wolves in London 