We weren't short of activities to keep the kids occupied at the Shields' house - painting Christmas cards, checking on the garden worms...

Spent a happy hour in the company of this lovely family, playing Lego - which somehow turned into an impromptu game of indoor 'tig' - and...

I was hugely privileged last week to photograph my wonderful friends Jo, Jack and George - though their cat Fergie wasn't keen and made...