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Mellow September
I love this time of year – the freshness of the mornings, giving way to mild, sunny afternoons, low mists lying across the water meadows by the river, the sculptural forms of seed heads and drying stems. I gathered up … Continue reading
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Growing
Just after I signed off from the blog I had news I could reveal the cover of my latest book, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, so here it is in case you missed it on Twitter and Instagram. The … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, author, beetroot, blackberries, children's books, Claire Ratinon, climate change, cornflowers, cover reveal, crops, deadlines, devon, drought, environment, family, grow your own, growing, Jessie Price, Jurassic coast, Lucy Rose, managing time, Mauritius, mental health, mental illness, pollinators, proof, Rashmi Sirdeshpande, resolutions, Riverford, sewage, soil, spinning plates, summer, summer of sewage, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, time, Unearthed, Wales, writing, Zephyr Books
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Light-filled days
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee feels like a long time ago now. Elizabeth seems a dear old lady, but I have mixed feelings about the institution of monarchy. I lived in Scotland, where the Crown has done some truly terrible things. … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa Writes, allotment, august, bank holiday, bees, blight, book events, bookbag, chickens, climate, colonialism, Colour Table, devon, Duke of York, evenings, exeter, fire, hills, honeysuckle, Hot Chocolate, imperialism, independent bookshop, jubilee, Karla Neblett, King of Rabbits, Light-filled days, lightened soul, mulit-nationals, new potatoes, parsnips, penguin, pennines, perennial cabbage, perennial kale, produce, pta, Queen, richard branson, rounders, sausages, school fete, scotland, slow worm, solstice, sweetpeas, tractor, Wales
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Bang
May started with a bang for us, quite literally. Finch leap-frogged a bollard, didn’t make it, and face-planted the pavement. Amongst the tears and considerable amount of blood, there was a silver lining. Through wet eyes, he grinned at me … Continue reading
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Tagged aphids, author, blue tits, bluebells, cycling, event, fossil-hunting, fossils, Hannah Foley, landscape, losing milk teeth, may, may blossom, meadows, paddling, pandemic, place, rambling roses, scent, spring, summer, swifts, writer
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Spy badgers
April has been such a dry month this year. I’d been panicking about sowing my seeds too early at the allotment after the temperature dropped, and then decided I’d maybe done right, glad my sowings had at least got a … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, April, author event, author visit, badger, children's author, children's books, ediitng process, editing, grow your own, Hannah Foley, middle grade fiction, no-dig, panic, potatoes, sweetcorn, writing, writing workshop
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Book news
The other week a bird woke me with its clear song while the day was still dark. Our bedroom double-glazing is badly fitted so we are usually woken by raucous seagulls or the revving engines of the early-shift workers heading … Continue reading
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Tagged author, bird song, blue tits, book news, celandines, children's author, children's books, Christmas productions, festive jumpers, Hannah Foley, mental health, new book, primroses, SCCR, Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, SMHAF, spring, The Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution
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Through train windows
I’ve landed in a heap at this weekend, and I’ve so much to tell you. I’ve been sitting here, Wren at my side, trying to craft it all into some sort of narrative but February has passed in a blur … Continue reading
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Tagged apple seeds, apples, author, author event, author workshop, Avery Buckle, cat, children's author, Chris Smaje, creativity, cycling, daffodils, dawn, Hannah Foley, illustration, library, library event, library visit, owl, parenting, primroses, rainbows, reading, riddles, school viist, school workshop, spring, storm dudley, storm eunice, storm franklyn, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, wildings, World Book Day, writing
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Spuds
Around this time of year my Instagram feed fills with pictures of chitting potatoes from like-minded grow-your-own-ers. I love it! So here’s mine, and my treasure trove, box of seeds. I had a go at collecting quite a few of … Continue reading
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Tagged chitting, Duke of York, grow your own, January, potatoes, saving seed, seeds, spring, spuds
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Time
Time. It’s a slippery thing. There have been seasons of my life where I’ve had too much of it, waiting for it to pass, knowing that each ticking second is a second’s worth of healing, or a countdown to freedom. … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Making changes
Tagged decisions, devon, dreams, hopes, pace of life, seasons, time, winter, writing
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Blessings
January often sees me turning reflective, seeking out essayists like Kathleen Jamie and Alistair McIntosh, to give me the words and images to navigate the dark winter days. Old folk songs sing of the ‘ghosts’ that visit us at this … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Carmichael, blessings, carmina gadelica, charms, community, family, folk songs, gaelic prayer traditions, ghosts, grounding practices, January, miracles, mum, relfection, routine, scotland, spell songs
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