Dads especially seem to enjoy the life of being a footie dad. Over coffee in our local Starbucks, they often meet to spend long hours discussing the latest results in the Surrey junior leagues. Their sons always seem to score or make lots of goals. If the dads, always in jeans, with a day's stubble trying to disguise the fact that they spend their weeks in suits and ties as accountants and property lawyers, are to be ...

This is the poster advertising my husband Alan Franks' next gig.

I asked on Facebook whether I should be worried. One commenter responded: 'Only if he modelled for it!'

The event is, appropriately, at the Freud Museum in London. You can read the full blurb here.

Oddly enough, I was in semi-Freudian analysis myself for seven years, a while back. It was the full works, analytic pychotherapy, flat out on ...

Where were you on 9/11?

The Times this week is running some powerful writing under the byline of Martin Fletcher and others commemorating the events of 9/11. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was actually in New York at the time, just two blocks from the World Trade Centre at Trinity Church in Wall Street and has written about it.

Every year, for as long as I live, I hope to photograph the passing of a year in a different part of Kew Gardens. For my first of these projects, I ...