Posts Tagged ‘friends and family’

Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Hurrah for traditions

It has become a bit of a tradition that every January Miikka comes over for a ‘working holiday’ of sorts, mostly consisting of some jobs that need doing around the house, drinking beer (him), ignoring emails (me), and catching up with the previous season of True Blood. He just flew back home today and the house already feels a bit empty without the regular sound of a bag of crisps being ripped open. Oh well, next year will come around soon enough, in fact, it seems like it comes around quicker and quicker the older we get…

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Thursday, 19 January 2012

Award-winning…

So it happened that I won an award for doing my job. How weird is that? I wrote a bit more about the whole thing over at MTP, if you’re interested in my pre-gala jitters.

What I enjoyed most about the day was getting ready for the do with the lovely Emma.

wedding industry awards
wedding industry awards
wedding industry awards

Friday, 30 December 2011

Christmas of ups and downs

Christmas was all about ups and downs. Mum and Pauli were over and there was presents galore. But Stu’s nan went into hospital the day before Christmas, which was a bit of a shock to the system. So it was all about balancing the good with the bad and sorting out logistics between us and Essex. There were some Christmassy moments to be had though, especially in the run up to the actual celebrations.

Christmas 2011
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Christmas 2011

Tuesday, 13 December 2011

First time in Birmingham

For Stu’s birthday this year I really splashed out and took him up to Birmingham. No, but really, it was all good. We stayed at a cool hotel with an amazing view (apparently of the ‘Aids tower’), got to see Emma perform in The Lost Happy Endings (she was amazing) and spend some quality time with her, Pete and Jo. Definitely a brilliant trip. And Stu even got to see Ikea Birmingman on his birthday, how lucky is he.

Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham

Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Girls’ night out

Had such a good evening out with Steph, Alexis and Charlotte. A girl needs a cocktail once in a while.

girls night out

Monday, 25 July 2011

Birthday picnic

I had the most amazing birthday picnic to celebrate my 35th. So much fun was had. Steph arranged the prettiest flowers, everyone brought food (Emma even baked her first ever cake, well, brownies, for me!), and I received lots of amazing presents and pretty cards + so much bubbly that it’s going to take quite a while to get through it all. What a lovely, lovely day!

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Birthday picnic
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Birthday picnic
Birthday picnic
Birthday picnic

Sunday, 17 July 2011

Finland in the summer

I had a few days off in Finland around shooting a Finnish wedding for a change. We got to spend some time at Miikka’s cabin, which was long overdue. I also got to hang out with Ed, who was also in Finland for a wedding, and show him places from my youth. Good times.

Finland
Finland
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Ed Peers in Finland
Finland

Tuesday, 5 July 2011

Visitor from overseas

At the start of July Johanna had a gig shooting the Hampton Court Flower Show for a magazine, which was pretty perfect as it meant spending a few days of quality time together. We made the most of just sitting out in the garden, listening to music and reading magazines. Pure bliss.

Monday, 6 June 2011

How time flies…

This is one of those things that makes one feel terribly old… It had clearly been waaaaay too long since I’d seen Noa & Elli, as they are practially all grown up now! It seems like just a few winks ago that Elli was just a few months old. Crazy. But still, was so lovely seeing them, and Riina, it was a lucky thing I had a wedding just around the corner!

kids grow fast

A quick portrait exchange

Just a few quick portraits of a friend and fellow photographer Matt Tyler. We both needed shots for magazine articles (me for this interview for Photo Professional), so decided to shoot each other and make it as painless as possible. Oh how horrid it is being on the other side of the camera…

Matt Tyler

Monday, 16 May 2011

Tuuuuune!

Susanna’s birthday party. One word; epic.

Birthday

Friday, 11 March 2011

Ladies who lunch

Lunch date with the always adorable ChloƩ.

Chloe Browne

Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Working holiday

Miikka was over for his traditional ‘working holiday’. There was a lot of drilling and laying of floors involved, but we did manage to squeeze in some culture at Hampton Court Palace and two seasons of True Blood. Not bad going.

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life

Friday, 5 November 2010

Johanna + Imogen

Johanna was over for a visit and we went to see Imogen Heap at the Royal Albert Hall.

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London Royal Albert Hall

Monday, 20 April 2009

Once more, with feeling

Happy Birthday Dad!

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Friday, 12 December 2008

The dark side

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This is just to wish Stu & Nikki happy 30th birthday! Welcome to the dark side! :D

Sunday, 30 November 2008

Party people

Layla & Mike’s engagement bash. More pictures over at Marianne Taylor Photography.

Saturday, 1 November 2008

Flutastic

The stupid cold that has been doing the rounds has finally caught up with me. But I won’t go down without a fight! I’ve been consuming vast amounts of echinea and hot lemon and they’re helping me to keep my head above the water, so to speak. Jen came over for yesterday’s Antony and the Johnson’s gig (more about that when my head isn’t quite so woolly – it’s safe to say it was mindblowing though), and I was clever enough to take Friday off work so we had a chance to spend some time together and pop to Richmond for a bit of shopping. Today she’s gone to central London on her own, while I’ve been trying to go through my to-do-list, with Stu constantly complaining that I should be in bed.


We were testing my new cheapo macro ring flash on each other yesterday.

We’re supposedly going down the pub tonight, not quite sure how I’ll cope with that though… hmm. Might have to change that to a Sunday lunch thing, we’ll see. I don’t want to be a bad host though, it’s just that I feel pretty shit…

Since the concert finished at a reasonable hour last night (who knew symphony orchestras are so punctual!), we decided to come back home afterwards. Originally we were going to stay at Sooz’s flat, while she’s living it up in NY. I must say I was pretty glad to wake up in my own bed this morning.

Here’s our train arriving at Vauxhall last night.
Night Train

P.S. if anyone is interested in booking me to shoot their wedding at a discount price, I’m currently running a pretty generous wedding photography promotion!

Sunday, 26 October 2008

Rainy Sunday

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Saturday, 25 October 2008

Catching up

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