Following the Arc

My mum has always been a keen photographer,and one of our favorite things growing up was looking through the photo albums that documented our lives, especially the ones she’d pieced together from the much rarer photos taken during her and dads’ childhoods. Sascha was born during the twilight years of the film photo era and […]

As the world’s media awaits the arrival of the latest royal baby, I had a reminder this week of what a huge event the arrival of that baby’s father was in my childhood. My mum is visiting, and brought with her a recently rediscovered component of my childhood obsession, much to the great amusement of […]

Our ten-year-old has wanted to go to Japan to see the cherry blossoms ‘for his whole life,’ and when this years’ cherry blossom festival coincided with school holidays, we decided this was the year to make that life goal happen. Who knows what will now replace it as his new focus, but given that Tokyo […]

Like many others, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of the iWatch with the hope that Apple will again deliver a game changer, a product that you didn’t even know you needed until it appeared and then rapidly reached a point of wondering how you ever existed without it. The iPod, iPhone and iPad all delivered […]

We’ve never been to Tokyo, and with the cherry blossom festival matching the kid’s school holidays this year, it seemed like a perfect opportunity to deliver on this long held goal. More on the cherry blossoms in an upcoming post — it’s fair to say I have been a little obsessed over them since we […]