It's been a long and busy day, filled with patients who refuse to stay at home just because the streets are paved with ice, and I gave up half my lunch break to screen a blind octogenarian who'd journeyed through the snow for five hours on six buses, via the wrong hospital, just to get there an hour late. So I'm a little bit tired, and I've got an ice-cream headache from all the sleet.

But if there's one thing which can perk me up when I get home, it's the sight of Amelie advancing towards me with a camera in her hands...

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I think soft-focus is definitely the way forward. She also does a mean self portrait...

I'm hopeful that if I leave my camera lying around every day, I'll eventually come home from work to find that Amelie's filmed the next found footage masterpiece, and I can take early retirement.