I am a city girl and usually happy with my lot. I like to have the buzz of the city around me, the shops, the services, the ease of life. But today, on my homeschooling quest, I stumbled upon this lovely blog: http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Dell/. And I was seized by the desperate need to live in a place like that: where the leaves turn golden and red (and not sickly yellow); where a nature walk means spotting a squirrel on a tree or a fox by the entrance door (and not cockroaches and rats scurrying in the Tube’s tunnels); and where children are so beautiful, well-dressed and even better photographed (and not like some other children I know, who always look like little monkeys).

OK, if I had to settle for just one thing, the pictures would be it. Why do her children look so beautifully elegant and poised in a picture, while mine look like this?