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Eggs
We found this shell in the garden the other day. I was hoping it would be the egg shell of something really exciting. Just recently a species of fly that had been thought extinct turned up on a nature reserve … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged bird egg, detectives, egg identification, egg shell, garden, identification, illustration, natural history, nature, wood pigeon
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Home
We’re back from our holidays, our suitcases crammed full of happy family memories and a copious amount of stowaway sand.
Posted in Family and friends
Tagged beach, childhood, family, happy memories, holidays, illustration, kites, laughter, sand, sea, suitcases, summer, surf
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Holidays
As today is the first day of the school holidays it has obviously poured with rain all day. Tomorrow we are off on our holidays to Pembrokeshire so have been packing. I’d like to promise sketches on my return but … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged holidays, illustration, Monkey, packing rain, pembrokeshire
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July
In my seasonal reading, Stephen Moss, in Wild Hares and Hummingbirds, describes July as a month of stasis, “a chance to reflect on the rollercoaster ride of spring.” Now chicks have been raised, parent birds are moulting ready for the colder … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged an english year, bees, beetles, birds, butterflies, Derbyshire, dragon, Early reader, Hannah Foley, hummingbird hawkmoth, illustration, july, moths, moult, purple loosestrife, reading, seasonal, snails, Stephen Moss, steve roud, Tissington, well-dressing, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds, willow herb
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Rocket box
If you sat quietly in our living room you could be forgiven for thinking that we’ve got a fairly serious plumbing issue. From all corners of the room comes a steady chorus of dripping, punctuated with the odd bubble. There’s … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged beer, box, children, fermenting, home brew, hops, illustration, parenting, periscope, plumbing, rocket, sketch, sketchbook
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Veg patch update
Little Owl did very well in both her performances this week. We’ll be singing the songs to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat for some time to come. I was completely mobbed on the Hook-A-Duck stall at the school summer … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Illustration
Tagged beans, blackcurrants, courgettes, fruit, gooseberries, illustration, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, lettuce, parent's evening, peas, pumpkins, raspberries, school play, school summer fete, sorrel, spinach, sports day, sweet peas, tomatoes, vegetable patch
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Sketchbook
This week I’m drawing more cyclists.
Posted in Illustration
Tagged bikes, cycling, cyclists, illustration, moustaches, old man, sketching, tandem
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Garden warfare
It’s going to be a busy week in our house. Little Owl is not just in one theatrical production but two. Then Friday is the school fete. It’s my first ever school summer fete so I’m pretty excited! I’m in … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Illustration
Tagged ash tree, children, gardening, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, picture book, seedlings, swimming hippos
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Sketchbook
This week I am drawing cyclists.
Posted in Illustration
Tagged cycling, cyclists, doodles, drawing, illustrations, penny farthing, sketchbook, sketches, unicycle, victorians
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Gaps
It’s been a momentous weekend in our house. Little Owl has had a wobbly tooth for ages and it finally fell out. She was having a water fight in the garden when her friend accidentally elbowed her in the jaw … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged children, coin, exchange rate, illustration, kids, macaws, parenting, pillow, teeth, tooth, tooth fairy, water fight, wobbly
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