Wow, almost one year later than I’d planned and hoped, here I am picking up the project that helped me fall in love with photographing everyday moments of my own family life again. I don’t take these pictures like I do when I’m shooting professionally. These are spontaneous everyday captures, ones where I often miss the moment because I just want to be in it rather than documenting it from outside. They are quick snap shots of our days, and I love them all the more for it.

I struggle with the darker months, as the night draws in earlier and earlier. We were creeping so slowly towards the shortest day and soon creeping ever so slowly out of it. I find lighting candles and playing my favourite albums on repeat is the best way forward to get through winter. And eating stews, and mash potato and all the carbohydrates. Warm tea is my friend, ...