As the year comes to a close, all has been busy on both fronts, work and home.
The weddings have been thick and fast at venues all over the country, right up until the end of October.
I finished the year off at Sandhole oak Barn, near Congleton, working on Kim and Chris Chadwick's wedding, but have worked at some stunning venues over the period of the year.

On the commercial front, my friends at Truth design kept me busy with some corporate portraits for K2IT and an anniversary book for The Authentic Food Company, who are celebrating their twenty fifth year of trading.
I began a series of work for Intelligent Homes, who fit out state of the art, bespoke entertainment systems at the highest level and will be looking to complete this in the New Year.

Back at home all is well. The bees are tucked up for the winter, Pudding is terrorising the dogs on an hourly basis and Kristin is finishing at Tatton Park, to start working for me and take control of my office duties.
We did have another piece of worrying news, when we discovered that Nelson, one of the dogs, had developed a rare form of skin cancer and had to undergo treatment at Liverpool University small animal teaching hospital. The initial signs are good and hopefully our run of bad luck with pets is at an end for the moment.
As Christmas drew close and the snow started to fall, my ongoing project, of our first year at Toft, continued and I will be looking to produce some evidence of this at the start of Summer 2011.
So this only leaves me to close for 2010 by wishing those who read my blog a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year, albeit slightly belated.

September, October 2010

It would appear that my trend in blogging has continued with some gusto. It is now the start of January and having been flat out with work and the blog has had to wait I'm afraid. Now that work has slowed down slightly, I have time to do a quick update and get some images on the site.
So as you might have gathered, the weddings have been non stop and it's been a seven days a week job just trying to keep up with the processing and editing of them all.
The good news is that next year is almost fully booked and I now have an assistant to help with the workload, so welcome to Ted.
Other events on the work front have been a shoot for Mariee bridalwear, which we shot on location at the start of September, plus a series of jobs for Sale Sharks marketing department for the 2010/2011 season involving several of the players, as well as the Sharks 2011 uncovered calendar, which is on sale at the moment and is also raising money for The Seashell Trust. Details are on the Sale Sharks website, https://shop.salesharks.com/
Other jobs during September/October have been for Greene King beer and the NHS.




On the domestic front, we had some bad news regarding one of the animals. Enzo, our little ginger cat was run over. It just goes to show that even out in the middle of the country, away from main roads, the animals are still susceptible to vehicles. I never realised how much the loss of one little ginger cat would affect me, maybe I'm a bit of a soft touch after all?
Prior to losing Enzo, Kristin had convinced me to take in another little creature in need of a good home. The animal in question was a little black kitten, who we called Pudding.
Pudding and Enzo quickly became good friends, which made Enzo's absence even harder to stomach.
But time moves on and the ankles that were once tap tackled, as I walked up the stairs, by a little ginger cat, were soon under attack from a little black cat. The baton had been passed on.

The good news at home was that the bees had been busy in the short time they'd spent with us and seem to have benefited from the dry early summer, providing both them and us with a good harvest of honey. So I'll leave them with plenty of stores for the winter and hope they work just as hard next year. The chickens have enjoyed just about every plant in the garden, much to my dismay, and there are very definite and swift plans to make them a nice bespoke run before next Spring.