Sitting seagulls

Sitting seagulls

I recently picked up a newspaper supplement about achieving your goals in 2014 with a focus on learning new skills and pursuing new experiences.  One of the articles was about street photography and how pleasurable it can be to just…

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Family and the sea

Family and the sea

Somehow, somewhere I have stitched together the sea with the notion of family, so that I now cannot imagine the waves lapping at the shore without hearing the crunch of footsteps behind me – my parents foraging for driftwood, one…

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A Christmas present – my new lens

A Christmas present – my new lens

Just a short post today as I’m still away at my parents’ enjoying mulled wine, movies by the fire, new slippers, dog walks along the beach and long lie-ins.  Amidst all of that, and the fact that I’m feeling so…

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A yurt holiday and some news

A yurt holiday and some news

So much has happened since the rather rainy Wednesday morning that we set off for Herefordshire that I hardly know where to begin.  The last two weeks have been a whirlwind of celebrations, car journeys, champagne, hotels and suitcases, so…

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Summer tips – love your lunchbreak

Summer tips – love your lunchbreak

When I was asked recently (via a campaign from Barclaycard) to share a personal recommendation relating to summer, I knew instantly what I wanted to write about.  Over the last couple of weeks, two of my friends at work and…

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