Just before Christmas I was approached by the Observer newspaper, who were putting together their annual Christmas puzzle pull out and planning a quiz where the reader had to match the pet to the author. They wanted to know if I’d be happy to take part.
I was delighted that my six-legged lovelies would get to star in a newspaper article and invited the Observer into my writing cabin at the bottom of my garden to photograph my beautiful pets.
I’ve put together a gallery of the photoshoot, and you’ll see we tried a number of set-ups. Unfortunately, the beetles got excited by the bright lights and all the attention and kept flying about. Sophie, the photographer, ended up with a beetle in her hair at one point, but she was an excellent sport about it.
