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The Railway Tunnel
At the weekend, we travelled up to North Devon to finally celebrate my mum’s 70th, eighteen months late. We’d re-booked the holiday cottage three times. It was a wonderful, glowing time of family, good food, long walks, and pottering around … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends
Tagged 70th birthday, author, autumn, Avery Buckle, book locations, cannonmills, cat, children's author, countryside, devon, England, halloween, Hannah Foley, holiday, magic, middle grade fiction, middle grade novel, North Devon, places, railway tunnel, rope swing, scotland, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, witches
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Mental images
I’ve returned home from our festive travels with so many beautiful mental images. There was the Narnian lamppost in the churchyard on Christmas Eve, whose frosty halo lit my mum and I through the starlight night to Midnight Mass, the … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged aeroplane, beech, Call the Midwife, christmas, Christmas Eve, Christmas special, Exeter airport, fog, holly, lamppost, Midnight Mass, mr tumnus, narnia, new baby, new year's resolutions, rope swing
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Soaring
We often think of the farm and miss it very much (for new readers, we moved to our current and more urban home in April). We wonder to each other how the kingfisher down by the river fared this year, … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Wildlife
Tagged bank, beech tree, bilberries, boundary, fair, farm, frogs spawn, frost, hill, illustration, kingfisher, plain, reeds, rope swing, rural, scotland, silage, tupping, urban, walk, wood
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To-ings and fro-ings
Following on from yesterday’s post I’ve been thinking that it’s been a bit of a week for thinking about death and loss. Now that’s a cheerful way to start! Little Owl discovered a baby rabbit dead underneath our garden bench … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Making changes
Tagged beech, dead, death, flattened hedgehog, horse chestnut, life, loss, peace, PM, rabbit, Radio 4, rope swing, Rory Morrison, tree
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Solemn business
As I write the sky is a soft blue streaked with pink. The windows of the house are flung open. It has been a beautiful summer’s day and the long hours of daylight up here turn the evening into an … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Wildlife
Tagged chopped down, flat, hedgehog, horse chestnut, illustration, rope swing, small tortoiseshell
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