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Kingfisher sighting
Last week the most amazing thing happened. Finch and I were out for a frosty walk in the nature reserve opposite our house and we saw a kingfisher! It was bright blue against the dark wet vegetation. It flashed past … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged frosty, illustration, kingfisher, scotland, walk, winter
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The English Year
I have added a second book to my monthly readings to help me keep my New Yearβs resolution of getting back to simplicity and seasonality. This book is called The English Year and is by Steve Roud. The English Year … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged bad wine, benedictine, customs, festivals, illustration, kissing friday, oxford, pull lug day, seasonality, sister, st scholastic's day, steve roud, students, the english year, traditions
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Catkins
As the beginning of February unfolds I turn to the corresponding chapter in Stephen Mossβ book Wild Hares and Hummingbirds. The countryside surrounding his home on the Somerset Levels is shrouded in low mists and dripping with damp. He describes … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged catkins, creme egg, hazel, illustration, robin, rooks, roosting, silver birch, song thrush, sparrows, spring, stpehen moss, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds, winter
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Porringer
We are firm devotees of porridge for breakfast in our house. In the past few weeks our porridge experience has been revolutionised by a porringer. Despite its name, a porringer isn’t just for making porridge in. It’s for all sorts … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Illustration
Tagged illustration, porridge, porridge drawer, porringer, scotland
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The ‘quest’
Did you do the RSPB Garden Bird Watch at the weekend? We ummed and ahhed about it but in the end decided it would just be too depressing. Probably quite high on the list of ways to put your child … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged bird feeder, birds, evening class, Garden Birdwatch, hero, illustration, Janis MacKay, logo, quest, RSPB, tennis club, writing
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Burns night
For those of you who don’t know (shame on you!) it is Burns Night on Sunday. Poor Little Owl is having a hard time of it. She is having to learn a Burns poem to recite by heart for school. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Burns, Burns night, dialect, haggis, illustration, language, neeps, oat cakes, poem, poetry, Roguey pogey, school, scotland, Scots, shortbread, tatties
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Wild Hares and Hummingbirds
The sparrows have found our feeders! Granted it took minus temperatures for them to venture into our exposed garden but it’s a start. The hills behind our house were thick with snow this weekend. The trees wore strips of snow … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Wildlife
Tagged bird feeders, birds, blackthorn, children, church yards, gilbert white, gold crest, great tit, illustration, January, landscape, Mark, nature, Random House, seasonality, simplicity, skein, small birds, snow, Somerset, somerset levels, sparrows, Stephen Moss, The Natural History of Selbourne, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds, winter, yews
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Writing for Children
This week I started an evening class on writing for children tutored by children’s author Janis MacKay. That’s one of her lovely books there! There’s something slightly intoxicating about walking out of the house on my own in the evening … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged anticipation, evening class, illustration, Janis MacKay, Selkie Girl, writing, writing for children
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Folk tales
Snow musters out of brooding grey skies and a powerful chill wind scatters wheelie bins like leaves. We aren’t managing to walk to school as often these days but when we do we stomp in icy puddles and count the … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged Bendigeidfran, blether, Branwen, chilly wind, Disney, Floris Books, folk tales, Frozen, Gwyn Thomas, icy puddles, illustration, Irish Sea, John Bauer, Kevin Crossley-Holland, margaret jones, pied wagtail, school gate, snow, Sweden, Swedish Folk Tales, tales of the mabinogion, Wales, walking, weather, welsh
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Work in progress
“Shhh!” I say. “I didn’t say anything,” replies Big Dreamer innocently. “You’re breathing really loudly,” I growl. Deadlines loom!
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged deadline, illustration
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