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Scorpio Baby

Scorpio Baby

It’s Friday evening and the town is quiet. I walk out to Stapleton along an ancient green-lane, stroke the cheeks of a chestnut horse, wonder whether the hedgerows are full...

Scorpio Baby

It’s Friday evening and the town is quiet. I walk out to Stapleton along an ancient green-lane, stroke the cheeks of a chestnut horse, wonder whether the hedgerows are full...

Starbucks

Starbucks

For a while I have felt a hundred years old, out of touch, distracted entirely by my kids and quiet domesticity.

Starbucks

For a while I have felt a hundred years old, out of touch, distracted entirely by my kids and quiet domesticity.

France

France

Once upon a time you meandered south alone, through France, learning on the spot how to order a coffee for yourself...

France

Once upon a time you meandered south alone, through France, learning on the spot how to order a coffee for yourself...

Full Moon at Felin Uchaf

Full Moon at Felin Uchaf

The beaches here are vast and empty. Mottled pink seaweed catches between bare toes as I walk along the wave-line, leaving Isabel playing with the boys in the cove.

Full Moon at Felin Uchaf

The beaches here are vast and empty. Mottled pink seaweed catches between bare toes as I walk along the wave-line, leaving Isabel playing with the boys in the cove.

Deep Clean Summer

Deep Clean Summer

I can hear somebody chainsawing up wood, in a garden across the street from my studio. I have my window open, the revving motor transporting me back to afternoons hearing...

Deep Clean Summer

I can hear somebody chainsawing up wood, in a garden across the street from my studio. I have my window open, the revving motor transporting me back to afternoons hearing...

Ordinary Magic: A Homebirth in Lockdown

Ordinary Magic: A Homebirth in Lockdown

April is warm, and brighter than usual, each morning bringing clear skies and bare limbs. My belly like a beachball.

Ordinary Magic: A Homebirth in Lockdown

April is warm, and brighter than usual, each morning bringing clear skies and bare limbs. My belly like a beachball.