I’ve been very cagey about why our lives are upside-down for a good reason. We’ve stepped off the treadmill and are moving lock, stock and barrel to Cornwall in two days time. Hurrah. I’m hoping this will bring back some sanity to my world and save me from dying a corporate whore at 50 from stress.

Times they are a changing.

I’ve not been able to say what we’re about publicly because I’ve needed to wait until all of the people affected have been told personally. That basically means my work colleagues.

Tonight they all know and tomorrow they will all have been emailed with details of the news so I am now free to talk openly about it.

It’s going to make a huge difference to my life. I’m going to gain 2.5 hours a day, simply by not needing to travel to and from Epsom any more. I’m going to find time for me. I’m not going to spend my life in airports or on planes any more, I’m going to spend it with DM and the dogs, in other words, with the people I love.

Tomorrow and Friday will be stressful but that’s finite. Saturday we encounter a different stress, another wedding to photograph……and it’s in another country (and no, I don’t mean Wales!) From the middle of next week, things will start to settle down and I can breathe again. I am so looking forward to starting my day with a spring in my step and no pains in my chest.

Moving house and changing jobs are supposedly two of the three most stressful things you ever go through (most of us anyway) and here are we undertaking both things at once. Scary but hopefully life will soon be much, much better. I can feel my spirit returning already.

So, we will be heading west to ‘live our dream’ ……..the last few weeks’ pressures will soon be nothing more than a forgotten memory.


Last year a poor soul was wasted and two years ago, I was photographing junk jewellery