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Monthly Archives: January 2016
Juggler
At the weekend we celebrated Burns night with a gathering of friends and family. I know we’re not in Scotland any more but it seems a nice way of remembering our time there and celebrating some of the things we … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged animation, Burns night, Burns Night Supper, carrot, Empire Biscuits, friendship, gravy, haggis, hospitality, illustration, juggler, neeps, Nigella Lawson, poetry, recipes, robert burns, scotland, Scottish, shortbread, stovies, swede, tatties, toddlers
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Acrobat
It’s my last chapter of Steve Roud’s The English Year and I have been savouring it, hence the reason I’m not posting about it until January is nearly over! Roud says that traditionally much more of January would have been … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged acrobat, bean, christmas, Circus, clove, highwire, illustration, king, knave, Lamb's Wool, new year, pea, Plough Monday, Queen, resolutions, seasonal living, steve roud, the english year, Twelfth Night, Twelfth Night Cake, Wassailing
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A frosty morning
It is a beautiful frosty morning; the type that we’d get at the beginning of November in Scotland, but is a novelty here, even in January. In the still air, plumes of steam rise from the flues of hard-working household … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Illustration
Tagged boilers, brassicas, cabbage moth, caterpillars, chard, flues, frost, January, lime, perpetual spinach, soil, spincah, vegetable patch, vegetables
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Seeds
That’s my annual seed order sent off. I spent hours pouring over my preferred seed catalogue, comparing the descriptions of differing varieties of this vegetable and that, and weighing up whether to stick with a trusted favourite or experiment with … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Illustration
Tagged animation, calcium deficiency, children, Circus, flowers, gardening, gif, illustration, January, lettuces, lime, lion, lion-tamer, order, seed catalogue, seeds, soil, tomatoes
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The Fox and the Star
Following on from my last post, here is a book we were given for Christmas and one which I highly recommend. It’s called The Fox and the Star by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Coralie Bickford-Smith has been a designer for Penguin for … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged Book of the Year 2015, children's books, Coralie Bickford-Smith, friendship, Guardian, illustrated books, illustration, loss, penguin, persistence, picture books, star, The Fox and the Star, Waterstones
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Picture Books 2015
I take Christmas as an opportunity to splurge on picture books…for the children obviously! I spend ages perusing the shelves of our local Waterstones, drinking in all those beautiful pages. Here are some of my favourites from this year’s purchases… … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged Aerodynamics of Biscuits, author/illustrator, benji davies, christmas, Clare Helen Welsh, deborah allwright, ed vere, Granddad's Island, illustrator, linda sarah, max at night, On Sudden Hill, peter harris, picture books, Please Mr Panda, Steve Antony, the night pirates
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Back at my desk
I’m back at my little desk by the window looking out on blue skies. There haven’t been many of those around this Christmas holiday. It has rained and rained and rained. My sister-in-law lives in York and her house avoided … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends
Tagged accidents, car doors, children, christmas, floods 2015, Merchant Adventurer's Hall, parenting, stockings, york
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