Very Frustrating!

We have just got a new puppy and I thought it would be great to make a puppy cam to see what he is getting up to at night, and recording an image every minute or hour.

After getting my Pi Camera Module, plugging it in, enabling camera doing the updates and so on, no luck. I can get power to the camera but it just hangs and won't take an image. Any Python program I run just creates an image with no data in it. I have been to all the usual places and tried out the solutions but having no luck!

Will be looking at using a webcam to see if I can get it to work. If anyone has any ideas about why my camera module in not working please tell me, my husband can't take much more of my swearing!