Author Archives: Hannah

Treasures

Posted on November 26, 2019 by Hannah

I managed to catch a dry spell last week and headed to the allotment to dig up the last of my root vegetables and plant some more field beans for green manure. A little robin followed me around, pouncing on … Continue reading →

Posted in Family and friends, Growing things, Making changes | Tagged allotment, christmas, commute, dusk, fields, headlights, lit windows, Little Grey Rabbit, potato harvest, radio, rain, robin, shift work, wet autumn, wheat harvest, winter | Comments Off

First frost

Posted on November 19, 2019 by Hannah

We woke this morning to the first frost of the season, the clothes I had forgotten to bring in yesterday, frozen to the washing line. It’s a welcome change to all the rain we’ve been having. I might finally get … Continue reading →

Posted in Family and friends | Tagged allotment, autumn tidy up, carols, christmas, Christmas list, Father Christmas, frost, frozen washing, letter, present swap, presents | Comments Off

Spoons

Posted on November 14, 2019 by Hannah

The temperature has dropped. There are reports of snow up on the moors. I have a little scrap of thin plastic attached to my NHS issue raincoat which is supposedly a hood. It doesn’t do much to protect me from … Continue reading →

Posted in Family and friends | Tagged bare trees, children, cold, daughters, dessertspoon, district nursing, little spoon, moors, mum, NHS issue, parenting, raincoat, small spoon, snow, spoons, teaspoon, temperatures drop, three year old, yellow leaves, yoghurt | Comments Off

Crackle and sputter

Posted on November 7, 2019 by Hannah

The rain stopped and the clouds cleared just in time for our bonfire night celebrations on Saturday. We snuggled up around the fire in my mum and dad’s garden, fingers warmed by mugs of hot soup. In the distance fireworks … Continue reading →

Posted in Family and friends, Uncategorized | Tagged baked potatoes, bonfire night, burger relish, communal space, embers, family, fire, fireworks, gunpowder smell, Hannah Foley, marshmallows, mugs, music, parenting, school fireworks display, soup, telling stories | Comments Off

Blooming

Posted on October 30, 2019 by Hannah

Don’t tell my dad…the delphinium he gave me is flowering for the second time this year. Not one of his own flowered even once. Shhh – he’ll be so cross!

Posted in Growing things | Tagged autumn, dad, delphinium, gardening, second flowering | Comments Off

Tin Coast

Posted on October 23, 2019 by Hannah

Having grown up in a seaside town I have a pathological aversion to anything touristy so Cornwall has never really appealed. I went on a school trip to St Ives once, and I’ve been through Cornwall lots of times to … Continue reading →

Posted in Family and friends, Making changes | Tagged atlantic ocean, autumn, bal maidens, board games, Bottalack, Cape Cornwall, children, cliff tops, Cornwall, cottage, family, family time, getting away from it all, gorse, holiday, holiday cottage, Hot Chocolate, Levant mine, log burner, miners cottages, mining, parenting, penzance, perspective, Poldark, Porthcurno, reflection, scilly isles, sea, squalls, St Ives, thick walls, time, Tin Coast, tin mining, waves, weather | Comments Off

Bath Children’s Literature Festival 2019

Posted on October 10, 2019 by Hannah

We are very lucky to live within striking distance of the Bath Children’s Literature Festival here, which is the biggest of its kind in Europe. Little Owl and I headed up there on the train on Saturday. We hit the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bath, children, children's books, children's literature, Hilary McKay, illustrator events, kid lit, Literature festival, Liz Pichon, Michelle Magorian, reading, rugby, the skylarks war, Tom Gates, writing process | Comments Off

Heralding the sun

Posted on October 2, 2019 by Hannah

It is dark now when I head out on my bike in the mornings. I nearly tripped over the hedgehog in the middle of the lawn this morning. I think we both gave each other quite a shock. By the … Continue reading →

Posted in Family and friends, Wildlife | Tagged autumn, bike ride, brushing teeth, chimneys, cycling, dark mornings, garden, hedgehog, last minute wees, lunch box, morning routine, parenting, PE kit, permission slips, putting coats on, putting shoes on, rooftops, school run, sky, stillness, sunrise, washing faces | Comments Off

Wet girl

Posted on September 24, 2019 by Hannah

At the weekend we watched the surging grey seas smash onto the rocks as we climbed up to the top of the cliffs at Sidmouth and I made a mental note to pack extra sets of clothes for Little Owl’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Family and friends | Tagged adventures, cliffs, mud, parenting, rain, rough sea, school residential, school trip, sea, sidmouth, sisters, waves | Comments Off

Ploughing

Posted on September 18, 2019 by Hannah

It is Ploughing Match season again down here in Devon. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky at the weekend as we followed the trail of little white signs down a myriad of narrow lanes to the allotted fields. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Countryside | Tagged barley, beets, cake stall, cakes, countryside, cream tea, devon, eggs, fields, furrow, hills, lanes, maize, oats, ploughing, ploughing match, produce tent, september, shire horses, tractors, trees, vintage tractors | 2 Comments

Author Archives: Hannah

Treasures

First frost

Spoons

Crackle and sputter

Blooming

Tin Coast

Bath Children’s Literature Festival 2019

Heralding the sun

Wet girl

Ploughing

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