the sunday before christmas jenny was preaching at st marys so i thought i’d go along (st marys is the church that grace is a congregation of). before going i stuck my head round harry’s door to let him know we were going out to church. he was still in bed. jenny had gone early. when i go anywhere i try and take the camera – a sort of discipline i guess thinking that you can’t take a photo of something if you don’t have your camera…

it was an incredibly foggy morning so i thought i’d walk via a look at the common. well the fog was amazing and just drew me in so i got the camera out. and much as i intended to go towards the church i walked in the opposite direction and started taking photos. well 100 photos later and having walked via ealing common, walpole park and lammas park i had just about arrived at st mary’s an hour later when my phone went. it was harry asking where i was. it turns out he had got out of bed to join me at church and the service was now over. so i met him at munsons and had a coffee and went home never having made it to church in spite of my good intentions. i’d had a wonderful time. i felt slightly guilty missing jen’s sermon. but when i recounted the story over christmas my mum said ‘i’m sure you were closer to god there…’ which made me feel a whole lot better! the bench below was part of that morning. i have added others to flickr of course. i like this text message | patterns | the bench | rainforest

just back from a few days away over christmas staying with my younger brother steve’s family being wined and dined which was brilliant. we have a bit of a family tradition of going together to see a film at some point over christmas, ever since we went and saw napoleon dynamite one christmas eve. so last night we went to see kite runner which is such a brilliant story. i loved the book and the follow up, a thousand splendid suns is my favourite book this year. the scenery is stunning in the film. it really made me want to drive the road from pakistan to kabul…