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Monthly Archives: June 2021
Bouquet
To cut a very long story short, we are on day eight of cooking on a camping stove and washing up at the outside tap. The kitchen fitters who were supposed to be installing our new kitchen had to isolate … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Growing things
Tagged allotment, camping stove, cornflowers, COVID-19, cut flowers, hospital, isolation, kitchen, new kitchen, outside tap
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At long last…
I hope you enjoyed my delvings into the folklore behind my children’s novel, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle over the last few weeks. In the mean time, life has been marching on… the swifts arrived and with them, finally, … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged Avery Buckle, countryside, devon, father's day, four-leaf clover, grasses, Hannah Foley, june, meadow, orchard, orchid, ox-eye daisies, swifts, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, toblerone, yorkshire
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Folktales: Witches
In my book The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, Avery has no memory of the group of witches who promised to look after her when she was a baby. The witches live in a magical house called Cunningfoot, with doors that … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Making changes, Uncategorized
Tagged adventure, author, Avery Buckle, Baba Yaga, Cassandra, Ceridwen, folktales, Hannah Foley, inspiration, Jezebel, Kikimora, legends, Lilith, Mab, magic, middle-grade fiction, Midsummer, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, The Story Behind A Book, witches, writer
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Folktales: My Baddies
At the beginning of my book The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, Avery has a horrible feeling she is being followed by something not nice… and it turns out she’s correct! There’s a few baddies in the book, and my ideas for them … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Making changes
Tagged adventure, author, Avery Buckle, baddies, BAdoch, bean nighe, Bodach, children's books, folklore, folktales, Hannah Foley, kelpies, Kinlochleven, legends, Mab, magic, Mamores Mountains, middle grade fiction, peat bogs, peat hags, scotland, sluagh, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, The Story Behind A Book, witches, writer
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Folktales: Hearthfolk
In my book The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, Avery meets a character called Knuckle. He is broad-shouldered, with hands the size of teapots. He has black freckles clustering his shoulders, arms, and hairline, and every time he sneezes, sparkling embers … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged adventure, author, Avery Buckle, children's books, Dartmoor, domovoi, folktales, Hannah Foley, heart, hearth, hearthfolk, home, Howick House, Knuckle, Lucy Worlsley, magic, Mesolithic house, middle grade fiction, northumberland, Slavic traditions, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, The Story Behind A Book, writer
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