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Return
We returned yesterday from our wonderful summer holidays in the Scilly Isles. Here’s a couple of pics from my sketchbook. I’ll post some more up over the week as I’ve got loads. The first picture shows the view from Bryher … Continue reading
Pia’s Competition No. 3, 4 & 5
We are off on our summer holidays this evening. Little Owl will be bathed and put to bed in the car and then we’ll begin our slow migration south. Hence I am releasing the next three instalments of Pia’s competition … Continue reading
Six silent fishes
Little Owl and I have had a lovely couple of days with our good friend Steady Hands. We took Steady Hands for a walk in the woods and found an injured magpie in a cage. He looked like he was … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged haikus, magpie, packing, scilly isles, steady hands, summer holidays
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Pia’s Competition No.2
Here is the second instalment of Pia’s competition. It’s a bit of holiday fun to remind her of Scotland but you can join in too. Where is this in Edinburgh? It’s quite a tricky one so I’ll give you a … Continue reading
Living with an international assassin
We have spent the day in the garden digging, planting and watering. All the doors and windows were flung open and Little Owl toddled in and out getting progressively grubbier. Living on a farm the warm weather brings flies and … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Growing things
Tagged flies, gardening, international assassins
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Ascension Day
It has been a glorious day today. Little Owl and I have spent most of the day outside in the sunshine, apart from when we were making doughnuts! Apparently today is Ascension Day and associated with this day is the … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking
Tagged ascension day, doughnuts, ivy beer, jam, nettle beer
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Slow growing grass
It’s windy but warm here now. Little Owl and I spotted a pair of Yellowhammers flitting around the farmyard. I’ve been told on the farm that the grass is growing slowly for … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Wildlife
Tagged water avens, white comfrey, yellowhammers
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Pia’s Competition No.1
It’s a glorious evening in the Borders this evening. I sat on the back steps surveying our knee-high grass (all that rain!) and listening to a blackbird singing its heart out from a cherry tree in the main farm garden. … Continue reading
A last hurrah!
With the end of term, Monday heralds my return to my other job…being full-time mum to Little Owl. So for a last hurrah I headed to the Robert Burns museum in Alloway, near Ayr. I’ve wanted to go for ages … Continue reading
A gate made of twigs
I spent this morning in the garden trying to remedy some of the damage from the stormy weather that has just passed over Scotland. Our electricity went off on Monday evening but only for a few hours. I was most … Continue reading
