Six months ago, I was changing nappies, now I'm helping them revise for A Levels and GCSEs...at this rate, I'll be ready for the retirement home by Wednesday...

...a mixture of formal school shots and snaps by me - at Bibury here in Gloucestershire (2006), on the West Sands in St. Andrews during a family holiday back home to Scotland (1997) and dwarfed by the piano at home in Warwick (1998)

Thursday 18th's growing-old-gracefully entry to the Challenge; click here for other old/new, black/white and contrasty Pbasers this month