As usual it’s been quite eventful round these parts. On Saturday at 03.26am my sister gave birth to a boy, Henry, via C-Section. He came in at a rather large 9 lbs 4 oz and is doing very well indeed. We’re all absolutely delighted that he’s here and doing well and the thought of him and Ned building little camps in the garden when they’re older is almost too cute for me to think about for any length of time.
Congratulations dear Jodie. Well done for a tough pregnancy and a really tough labour and birth. I remember it all very well.
Yesterday was also the start of the second part of the shoot for my first book which is due out next year. The gang were back together and here are some behind the scenes shots you may like.
Keiko, my favourite photographer, back on set with all of her talent and beauty.
Nik-Nak and I discussing the food. She rocks does Nikki.
My Dad was an invaluable help yesterday. He worked very hard with the set-ups. But he did have a tendency to walk through the middle of the shots with large boxes and cups of tea balancing precariously on top of them. Odd!
We were absolutely blessed with the weather, a perfect sunny Autumn day. But chilly too.
There is occasionally lots of waiting around on set. Here’s ‘our Cathy’. On hand, on the ball and basically brilliant.
Lou. My sister in law and one of my favourite people. Thank you for yesterday, beautiful Brockles. You were so helpful.
Anyone for chocolate?
My brother in law Paul. Thank you for yesterday, Paulio. You were so helpful. Looking forward to Christmas.
As the day went on it got colder and colder. And we all kinda knew that we wouldn’t be going in to the warm for a while. I started to feel bad for people the colder it got but everyone kept their focus and we got every single shot we needed.
Nikki Dupin the art director kept us on track and encouraged us to keep going …….even when we could no longer feel our faces.
But we laughed, messed around, made mischief and kept it going right until the end. And then we took the set down in ten minutes flat right before the rain came. THANK GOODNESS!
Today we shoot Christmas.
Yep, that silent squeal was me, you know how I feel about Christmas.
You do know how I feel about Christmas don’t you?
You do?
OK, I’ll be quiet now.
I love you and thank you for reading.
Cherry x
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How lovely and exciting. Thank you for sharing what is to come. As a fan of keiko’s I am doubly thrilled. You must have been a good girl this year to get so much for Xmas! Gail
P.S. Would you share where you bought your cute Jack Russell jumper? We have a rescued half Jack and half dachsund , (weinie jack) called by My husband, but her name is Pixie! Thanks
Hello! I got it from Joules. Cx
Dear Cherry, what great news, so many things to be grateful for, new and old babies, healthy husband, new book, Christmas, and tons of folks who love you all dearly!!!We found a very injured hedgehog (legs up in the air) took him to the village vet, dosed him, fed him by hand, even found him tucked in the coal fire ashes one morning, and had a lovely celebration putting him back into the woods. A tear or two, a bon voyage, he looked back, stood still and finally trotted back into the forest, his name was Henri the hedge hog. So Henry is a very favorite name around here! Love to all!
This all looks so very exciting to me!!!! And….you get to celebrate Christmas TWICE!!! Double squeal!
Hi Cherry!
Looks like you had lots of fun even though it would have been hard work! Wonderful the way your family are always there to help out. Can’t wait for your Christmas posts. You are such an inspiration.
Congratulations to Jodie and the family. You all deserve lots of joy from now on.
Ooh my first ever ‘comment’! What a wonderful day yesterday, the book is going to be a-may-zing. Whoop!! Xxx
So industrious and looks like a looooong day but lots of fun. Looking forward to the book – it can sit on the shelf next to all my Nigellas x
Love your brown cord outfit, something very wholesome and innocent about it…
Congratulations to Jodie and you all on the safe arrival of Henry, im sure Ned will be very grateful to have another boy around in years to come! yoor shoot looks amazing, cant wait to see the Christmas sneak peek! x
Wow, I’m so excited about Christmas. I love the look of those mince pies. Yummy.
Great pictures! I’m getting very excited about Christmas already and have just browsed through your Christmas posts from last year to get me in the mood! I do hope the ‘Christmas house’ will be open again this year so we can enjoy your inspiration.
Right, back to the day job,I agree with Gemma and would like to leg it and go have some Christmassy fun.
Enjoy the 2nd day of the shoot.
Lowri x
Congratulations to Jodie, and welcome Henry! what lovely weather you are having… we are still waiting for summer, or even a ray of sun to arrive here!! Just found your blog over the weekend, and am really enjoying reading through it! Hope you are getting some rest in between hectic photo shoots… x
Congratulations to Jodie! What a lovely name. Being in the middle of a tough pregnancy myself I can’t get as excited about Christmas as I usually do, maybe reading about your Christmas shoot will bring back my festive mojo!
Congratulations to Jodie and Henry!
Lovely photos, I want that book soon!
What a privilege to have christmas in october, it will last till december.
Love
Verónica
Book already on pre-order but would mostly like to be embracing Christmas with you today as I love it! In fact just thinking/talking about it wants me to run away from my day job, go home and just look at all the decorations, presents to wrap and cards to write!
Now smiling with a warm pre-Christmas thought glow!
Fab news for Jodie. The house and you look stunningas always. Brave lady wearing white and dishing out the choc! I could just eat a nice warm mince pie! Yum.
xx
Congratulations to Jodie and her lovely family. The book’s looking really fab. x
*fields* not fileds!
Oh my, I so want to be Cherry Menlove when I grow up!
Can’t wait for the book – if these photos are anything to go by, it’s going to be stunning. And I am so jealous of your house – the view over the fileds is to die for.
So excited for you, Cherry – you deserve every single minute.x
Ooh how exciting it all looks! Can’t wait for the book. Have fun with your early Christmas. Please post some photos.
Hugs and love
Mandy xxx
P.s. those mince pies look amazing!!!!!!!
Lovely news about Jodie and your new little nephew. The behind scenes photos are really tantalising.
Looking forward to seeing some christmas photos too. I’m getting my ingedients in today ready to make the cake and mincemeat. Is that christmas music I can hear? x
ooh, Christmas!
lovely photos, I am so excited about your book, and I love getting to see the behind the scenes snippets.
Congrats to Jodie & welcome little Henry.
enjoy your festive day
x
Looks awesome Cherry and like you had a wonderful time despite the numbness that set in. The house looks huge in the shot of you dishing up stew. I also spotted at least 3 and a half wardrobe changes… you were indeed a busy lady!
Huge congratulations to Jodie and her family on the safe arrival of (not so!) little Henry… I bet he’s just gorgeous and can’t wait to see some pics.
Enjoy today, it’s a glorious one on my part of the south coast so hopefully will stretch across to you as well. The next best thing to a white Christmas is a cold fresh sunny one I reckon.
Take care, Bex. x
Hi Cherry!
It all looks like so much fun! When are we going to get a ‘tour’ of your new home? So far it looks lovely : )
Congratulations to Jodie & family!
Gemma x
Chrismas!!! Squeeeeeeeeeee!!!
Looks like you had a whole lotta fun there. Can’t wait to see your finished book, Cherry! x