Language is funny. You spend the year throwing around superlatives, describing new features on Facebook or the texture of your new favourite Burrito, and are then totally disarmed when you go somewhere like Yosemite, and faced with things that really are ‘awesome’ (in the base … Read More →
One of my minor ambitions during my stay in the USA was obviously to head to baseball game. It was extra-special to go there with my old man, and reminisce about all the other baseball games he didn’t take me to as a child while … Read More →
Mum & Dad, having completed their main tour from San Diego back up to San Francisco, now have a couple of weeks with me in the Bay Area. We took the opportunity of having good weather to cross the Golden Gate and spend the weekend … Read More →
I am lucky enough to have my parents visiting at the moment; here for a few days before heading down to San Diego, and taking a leisurely drive up the coast. While the first Saturday was a wash-out, the sun came out to play on … Read More →
One of the highlights of this most exciting of years was meeting my beautiful new niece, Isla May Hargreaves. What an adorable little bundle she is … looking forward to spending much more time with you in the coming years! Isla May Hargreaves The … Read More →
Sadly, last month we received that Granny, Catherine John, had passed away. A central figure in our family, her influence permeates through her children, her grand children and now their own families. Her creativity, humour, voracious appetite for news and love for her family, will … Read More →
An emotional and amazing talk with my sister and Benjamin last weekend. I almost welled up when she asked ‘where’s Jonny’ and he pointed at me. Miss you guys!
Yes, it’s that time of the year that you get the obligatory ‘going mountain biking then head to the pub’ post. But we know you love it, Michael! Dad and I headed over to Thetford Forest, which is usually a quick blast and great for … Read More →
The Fens, while almost utterly flat, carry a certain beauty that gets under your skin. It’s something in the expanses stretching to infinity that at once create calm and mild despair. There is surely no better time to feel this than when the landscape is … Read More →
Family Album 2012
A much-needed trip home to see the family was accompanied with plenty of clicking cameras, as I attempted to capture Isla and Benjamin in their early years. Leaving them behind is always the hardest aspect of leaving, and this time Benjamin brought half the family … Read More →