Neil Hopcroft

I noticed a wasp caught in a spider web while trying to escape through the keyhole to get out of our shed.

A picture of our house taken from the middle of the wheat field beyond our garden.

They have some trains running on the short line at Colne Valley Railway, we went on both of these and Nils loved it when he got to sit in the cab with the driver of the Diesel Multiple Unit.

We went to the Colne Valley Railway, where they make the most of a small section of track and single station.

On our last evening in St Ives the town was hit by a storm coming in from the Atlantic. Sadly I couldn’t capture in a photograph the beauty of the sun setting over the mountainous waves.

Artists studios are always photogenic.

We visited the Barbara Hepworth sculpture garden, tucked away behind some nondescript buildings in the middle of the town. These places now always make me think of Millesgården, although it was a good deal more intimate here and less columny.

One of the things I love about the Eden Project is their sense of art, everywhere you look there is something both beautiful and thought provoking.

Inside the biomes at the Eden Project there are many different plants from very different environments.

We went to the Eden Project. I will always love it there – they have a nice balance of environmental awareness and pragmatism. Being green can be fun – why shouldn’t it be? I’m looking forward to taking Nils there when he’s a little older.