Ava fills lots of her time with singing & creating & drawing & dreaming. She has a romantic heart. She gets lost in songs & stories. She is seven & still keeps asking if she will ever see a fairy & if she’ll ever fly. This school holidays she got truly lost in a book for...

  A trip to the airport with Gran. For no reason other than, Ava had asked to go there & see the planes. They are young & curious about everything. —– ‘When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do’ – Walt Disney

The wonderful, peaceful, comforting, ritual of bedtime stories. Four cinema tickets. One box of popcorn. Two mesmerised girls.

Summer curls. With all the daily hair brushing & plaiting & tying up in elastics that going to school requires through the year, we don’t see her curls as much as we used to. During the Summer holidays I haven’t been brushing or plaiting her hair. It’s been nice to see her curls fly free again.

Grandads birthday. This moment, surrounded by some of his children & grandchildren (even the tired & grumpy one, burying her face in her hands instead of singing happy birthday). Happy birthday Dad. xx

DAY 11: This holidays the girls started a little gardening project with Pete. They are growing snapdragons & pumpkins. Anouk gets so excited when she sees how much they are growing. Ava says she’s planning to make soup. DAY 12: Ava’s school friend had the sweetest birthday party with pony rides, cake, strawberries & punch. They are...

The moment when daddy walks in the door after work on a Friday & the weekend begins.

Playing under a sheet and making themselves laugh. Sisters. Friends. Anouk. 4 years, 8 months old. clever, sweet, funny, happy girl. Concerts performed on the trampoline are becoming a regular thing.

(one photo a day in January)   In the school holidays there is so much more free time to do things like get out paints & watch them slowly ponder every colour & brush stroke.

Today we took a day trip out to a beach where my family would occasionally go camping, with my Aunts, Uncle, cousins, Grandma etc when I was young. My cousins, brothers & I would play for hours in this very water which fronted the campsite.  It was so nice to take my kids there today & watch them...