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Holidays
We’re off on our holidays to Wales tomorrow. As always with a small baby, we’re taking half the house. This is compensated for by my wardrobe, which is severely depleted by virtue of the fact that I can only get … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged bereavement, editorial, Hannah Foley, holidays, illustration, illustrator, Wales
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Fireside Tales of the Traveller Children
Getting up in the night to feed Finch has had a number of unexpected benefits. I heard the dawn chorus one morning, bright and unearthly coming through the gently diminishing gloom and seeping between the layers of my sleep-thickened brain. … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged AOI, Association of Illustrators, birlinn, body-snatchers, books, breastfeeding, burkers, caravans, children, dawn chorus, dialectograms, Duncan Williamson, fairytales, Fireside Tales of the Traveller Children, glasgow, illustration, kindle, Mitch Miller, motorhomes, reading, review, scotland, sleep, storytelling, tents, Travellers, Travelling community, Travelling people
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Queen’s Baton Relay
In the nature reserve the cygnets have hatched, grey fluffy bundles with outlandish legs. Today they had taken up residence in the middle of one of the paths, watched over territorially by their parents. We escorted a bereft little boy … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged bog, Commonwealth Games, cygnets, Glasgow 2014, hot, illustration, insects, midges, midgies, muggy, nature reserve, Queen's Baton Relay, rain, scotland, swans, water, yellow irises
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British Pathe
It was with great surprise and delight that we were alerted to a film clip by British Pathe. They’ve been releasing loads of archive films and who should turn up as the subject of one but my Granddad! The picture … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends
Tagged blind, British Pathe, clip, dad, film, Salisbury, Stanley Turner, telephone operator
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Empire Biscuits
This weekend we went along to the British Pipe Band Championships. Pipe bands are mostly found in Scotland but there are lots in other places with celtic connections. A band consists of the pipers (on bagpipes) and then the drummers … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Illustration
Tagged big bass drum, British Pipe Band Championships, dancing, drummers, empire biscuit, german biscuits, glace cherry, illustration, jam, jelly sweet, marching, moving, obsession, pipe bands, pipers, reels, scotland, Scottish, shortbread, world war 1
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Nappy accident
An awful thing happened to Little Owl this week. I was changing Finch’s nappy in the lounge and she came running in to help. In her enthusiastic eagerness she didn’t look where she was stepping and put her foot right … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged dirty, empty nest, illustration, nappy, school, shoes, teachers
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Signs of the season
Over the road, over the train line, and over the golf course there is a nature reserve with a lovely flat path going through it, perfect for Little Owl and her bike. The trees are full of catkins, like big … Continue reading
Posted in Wildlife
Tagged blue sky, bog, catkins, gulls, illustration, marsh marigolds, nature reserve, nest, rosebay willowherb, scotland, shoes, swan, swifts
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A new patch
Over the last few weeks Little Owl (now with Finch too) and I have been getting to know our new patch. We hot-footed it to a nearby garden centre to stock up the bird feeders and gradually the locals have … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Illustration
Tagged blackbirds, blue tits, buds, dandelions, Finch, illustration, jackdaw, little girl, Little Owl, magpie, moss, robin, scotland, slippers, sparrows, starlings, tree
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Finch
We have a lovely little baby boy! Just like Little Owl he’s got a pseudonym for blogging so, without further ado, may I introduce Finch to you all. I’ve gone for Finch because he’s got lovely dark dancing eyes like … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged baby boy, charm, children, Finch, goldfinch, illustration, illustrator, leaving the house, nappies, outings, parenting, personal project, pseudonym, rookie parent, school, shoes
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