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How Billy Hippo Learned His Colours
Are you all safe and dry? I hope so. It’s been a wild one, hasn’t it? We got off lightly down here, although I haven’t been over to the allotment to see how the greenhouse has fared yet. Still, no … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Uncategorized
Tagged advance copy, children's books, colours, flowers, frogs, Hannah Foley, hippos, How Billy Hippo Learned His Colours, illustration, illustrator, Little Door Books, picture books, postman, seeds, spring, storm ciara, vivian french, winter
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Picture Books 2019
In my fit of gardening optimism, Finch and I went to the allotment to clean the greenhouse at the weekend. Okay, it didn’t go quite like that. I cleaned the greenhouse and Finch made obstacle courses for woodlice in the … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged Ashling Lindsay, benji davies, Big Book of Blue, Clare Helen Welsh, cleaning, David Litchfield, ed vere, Eve Coy, Fiona Lumbers, Freya Blackwood, greenhouse, illustration, Inga Moore, Irena Kobold, Janet Charters, linda sarah, Looking After Daddy, Michale Foreman, Mr Bug, My Two Blankets, obstacle course, picturebooks, Six Dinner Sid, spring, Tad, The Bear and the Piano, The General, The Secret Sky Garden, The Tide, woodlice, Yuval Zommer
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A peaceful lull
The children have finished school for the Easter holidays and I have handed in my last assignment for my course. I have the promise of a job with the district nursing team I have been working with, once I get … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Growing things
Tagged allotment, angel, birthdays, district nursing, Easter holidays, evening, forgotten keys, gardening, help, jogging, locked, locked in, lull, mobile phone, nursing, Return to Practice, running, spring, teenagers, tulips
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Sounds in the dark
One of the things I love about getting up early and heading out on my bike of a morning is the sounds I hear. The change in the clocks meant it was dark again when I set off this morning … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Wildlife
Tagged baby rabbits, badger, bike ride, bird song, birds, bobtails, clocks change, cycling, darkness, Dartmoor, early start, morning, river, sounds, spring, Wind in the Willows
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Daffodil meadows
The allotment is a Brexit-free zone. On Saturday, one of the volunteer coordinators was fiercely enforcing it. As I planted my potatoes, I could hear her shout periodically, “I can hear you. None of that Brexit stuff round here please!” … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Growing things, Wildlife
Tagged allotment, brexit, butterflies, daffodils, meadows, potatoes, spring, sunshine, woodls, woodpecker
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Snowdrop valley
It is half term and the kids were ready for it. In fact, Finch was ready for it last Tuesday when he fell asleep in his dinner at tea time. I am always amazed at the way little children can … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things
Tagged birds, birdsong, Exmoor, flowers, half term, snowdrop valley, snowdrops, spring
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Dreams of seeds
It has been a week of bright wintery mornings here; beautiful golden sunrises through a fretwork of bare tree branches. My breath comes out in billowy clouds as I clear the windscreen and set off to join my nursing mentor … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Making changes
Tagged allotment, bulbs, celeriac, gardening, nursing, Return to Practice, seed catalogue, seed order, seeds, spring, spring bulbs, strawberries, strawberry patch, summer dreams, winter
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Sun rise
The sun has been struggling up each morning this week around about 7.20am and each morning a bird has been singing outside our bedroom window at just about the same time. I did try to learn some of our British … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged birds, birdsong, brown, children, chimney pots, dunnock, educational, gold, green, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, invertebrate, kids, Lymnaea satgnalis, natural history, orange, robin, school run, sky, snail, spring, sunrise, water snail, wildlife
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Feeling smug
I’m feeling smug. We all made it to school this morning with our clothes on the right way round, our teeth cleaned and I flossed. Impressed? I am. I’ve heard people say that the jump from one child to two … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged birds, illustration, laughter, parenting, sparrows, spring, The Little Book of Garden Bird Songs, winter, wren
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March
It is the beginning of a new month so I turn to my seasonal reading again. In his book The English Year, Steve Roud’s chapter on March is preoccupied with the weather. March “comes in like a lion and out … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged ash buds, birds, borrowed days, dunk, hares, illustration, light, mad march hares, march, migration, migratory restlessness, Mothering Sunday, spring, St Chad's Day, St David's Day, St Patrick's Day, St Winneral's Day, Stephen Moss, steve roud, sunrise, swallows, the english year, vernal equinox, warmth, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds, winter, zugunruhe
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