Author Archives: Hannah

Nasal passages

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Hannah

On Friday I was called into school. Wren had put something up her nose. The way Wren told it, her teacher had clocked her across the classroom mid-deed. Hats off to Miss L, I’m not sure I’d have noticed a … Continue reading →

Posted in Family and friends | Tagged children, COVID-19, foreign body, headteacher, lockdown, nasal passges, nose, pentorch, school, teacher, tweezers | 2 Comments

Picture Books 2020 (and pirate fishfingers)

Posted on January 4, 2021 by Hannah

I hope you had a good Christmas and New Year despite the clouds of Covid hanging over all of us. Being in Tier 2 we were able to see some family on Christmas Day. It was a very odd feeling, … Continue reading →

Posted in Family and friends, Illustration | Tagged 2020, 2021, Alison Murray, Asa Gilland, book reviews, bubbles, children, children's fiction, Christian Robinson, Clare Helen Welsh, COVID-19, debut, Dino Duckling, Discover Kelpies, Emily Gravett, Extra Yarn, fishfingers, Francesca Simon, Hannah Foley, How Billy Hippo Learned His Colours, Jon Klassen, Last Stop on Market Street, Mac Barnett, Matt De La Pena, middle grade fiction, My Friend Earth, Northcott Theatre, Obsessive About Octopuses, Owen Davey, Patricia MacLachlan, picture books, The Perfect Shelter, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, theatre, Too Much Stuff, Treasure Island, vivian french | 2 Comments

Merry Christmas

Posted on December 22, 2020 by Hannah

On Sunday morning I trundled out on my rounds, listening to Sunday Worship on Radio 4. The service came from St David’s in Pembrokeshire. After all the bad news of recent days it was comforting to hear Welsh words spoken, … Continue reading →

Posted in Countryside, Family and friends | Tagged bird feeder, car driving, carols, christmas, clinical incident form, community nurse, COVID-19, darkest day, district nursing, Exeter cathedral, garden birds, happy new year, merry christmas, National Trust, pembrokeshire, Pob bendith, pressure sore, pressure ulcer, Radio 4, seed orders, spring bulbs, St DAvids, stove, Sunday, Sunday Worship, support stockings, thank you, turning of the year, Wales, weekend working, wing mirror, winter sun | 2 Comments

Christmas cards

Posted on December 14, 2020 by Hannah

This year, instead of sending Christmas cards, we are giving a donation to Devon-based charity ARC. ARC is a homelessness and addiction charity. Big Dreamer is a trustee for them so we can say, hand on heart, with insider knowledge, … Continue reading →

Posted in Family and friends, Uncategorized | Tagged 2020, addiction, ARC, charity, christmas, christmas cards, Christmas wishes, donation, happy christmas, homelessness | Comments Off

Smash

Posted on December 7, 2020 by Hannah

In the absence of all the usual activities leading up to Christmas, we have been searching out other options to get us in the festive mood. A local garden centre is famed for its Christmas lights so we headed there … Continue reading →

Posted in Family and friends | Tagged baubles, carnivorous plant, christmas, Christmas lights, coffee, COVID-19, decorations, family outing, feeling festive, garden centre, hot tub, mince pie, santa, venus flytrap | Comments Off

Wet towels

Posted on November 30, 2020 by Hannah

I left the towels on the line for three days before I gave in and brought them in to dry indoors. The days have been full of fog and mist down here in the South West. Yesterday we drove out … Continue reading →

Posted in Countryside, Family and friends | Tagged christmas, Christmas tree, combe, countryside, COVID-19, December, devon, England, family, fog, mist, oak tree, ridgeway, southwest, swing, towels, tree, tyre swing, walk, wood | Comments Off

Print!

Posted on November 23, 2020 by Hannah

Exciting news!!! The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle has gone to print! It’s turning into a real book as we speak. Eeeekkkk! 🙂

Posted in Making changes | Tagged allotment, autumn, autumn leaves, blackberries, book, brambles, children's books, going to print, grey skies, middle grade fiction, news, print, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle | 2 Comments

Queen Elsa and the Three Kings

Posted on November 17, 2020 by Hannah

Little Owl and I spent a morning on the allotment planting out strawberry runners on a bare patch and putting the dahlias to bed. None of the old chaps dig their dahlias up for the winter so we’ve followed their … Continue reading →

Posted in Family and friends | Tagged allotment, angle, broad beans, carol concert, christmas, Christmas Fayre, Christmas party, COVID-19, dahlias, manure, Mums, nativity, winter, zoom | 1 Comment

Gunpowder plot

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Hannah

At the weekend we had a fire in the back garden for Bonfire Night. As regular readers will know I love Bonfire Night. While I can’t say I’ve got much sympathy with the Catholic vs Protestant gunpowder plot origins, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Family and friends | Tagged autumn, baked potatoes, bonfire, bonfire night, COVID-19, family, fireworks, friends, gunpowder, gunpowder plot, lockdown, marshmallows, sparklers, traditions, winter | Comments Off

Treasures

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Hannah

We had a wonderful and much needed few days away in Yorkshire over half term, thankfully not curtailed by the incoming lockdown. I don’t have strong opinions about this lockdown either way. I know many do. I’m too exhausted by … Continue reading →

Posted in Family and friends, Making changes | Tagged beach, cliffs, COVID-19, fishermen, ginnels, government, Half-term, holiday, houses, lockdown, North York Moors, rainbow, restrictions, Robin Hoods Bay, rooftops, sea, speculation, statistics, Storm Aiden, treasures, waves, winter, yorkshire | 2 Comments

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Nasal passages

Picture Books 2020 (and pirate fishfingers)

Merry Christmas

Christmas cards

Smash

Wet towels

Print!

Queen Elsa and the Three Kings

Gunpowder plot

Treasures

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