Monthly Archives: October 2008

As featured in …

We’ve never really been into sending pictures to bridal magazines, so when a copy of the Dec/Jan Cosmo Bride dropped through the letterbox this morning I naturally thought “Gosh, NatMags is looking for advertisers again”, chucked it on the table and ripped open the long-awaited quote from our builder, of which more anon. When I...

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Award Winning

Once every year, 300 or so photographers gather at a hotel up North to party and find out who has won what at the “British Professional Photography Awards”. Those present are mainly social (i.e. wedding and portrait) photographers who belong to either the MPA or the BIPP, although I understand that as the two organisations...

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Notices #16

They don’t write them like that any more, or at least not very often. Which is a shame, but there you go … It’s in The Lansdowne Club in Mayfair. Or possibly Fitzrovia.

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The Stove Saga – Part Four

There is a mood of cautious optimism here today. How long it will last, though, is anybody’s guess. Our friendly neighbourhood brickie, who we thought had fallen out with us, has just left armed with all the information he needs in order to quote for doing the new hearth, sorting out the kitchen chimney breast...

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The disappearing cab

So you’re getting ready in the hotel with your bridesmaids and your parents. Because the place is off the beaten track, you’ve booked three cabs for 1.15pm, which leaves plenty of time for them to get you all to the church on time. At 1.05pm, one of your bridesmaids looks out of the window and...

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