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Category Archives: Countryside
Bonfire Night
Festivities and special days cluster around this time of year like a group of teenagers on a street corner. Then November stretches out in grey dreariness with nothing to break it up until the countdown to Christmas begins. If it … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged baby, baby carrier, bonfire, bonfire night, ear protectors, farm, Finch, fire bin, fire dancers, fireworks, halloween, hog roast, Hopetoun House, illustration, memory, november, smell, trick or treat, wood burner
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Centre of the Cell
Big Dreamer talked endlessly about picking the blackberries that filled the brambles across the road from our house. Of course he didn’t get round to it and now they have gone over. As everyone knows, the Devil is in blackberries … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged blackberries, centre of the cell, children, devil, education, illustration, puppet show, puppets, science, september
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Soaring
We often think of the farm and miss it very much (for new readers, we moved to our current and more urban home in April). We wonder to each other how the kingfisher down by the river fared this year, … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Wildlife
Tagged bank, beech tree, bilberries, boundary, fair, farm, frogs spawn, frost, hill, illustration, kingfisher, plain, reeds, rope swing, rural, scotland, silage, tupping, urban, walk, wood
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Maple Arts Exhibition
Yesterday airborne seeds smoked and billowed from the downy heads of thistle plants. It always seems to me that, like the mayfly, thistle seeds seasonally pour forth in one of those blink-and-you-miss-it profligate events nature is so good at. Suddenly … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged candlemaker row, edinburgh, exhibition, fairies, illustration, maple arts, seeds, summer, thistle
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Turning
On the way back from a swim this evening the dusk was dim enough that I needed to put the car headlights on. The breeze that tosses the trees has a roguish manner. In England the main summer month is … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged autumn, changing seasons, England, illustration, school term, scotland, summer, winter
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Umbrellas
During a Scottish winter an umbrella is a useless object. Not because it isn’t raining but because the wind will have turned the poor umbrella inside out and ripped it into ragged tatters before you can say brolly. There is … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Growing things
Tagged brolly, crocs, grass, hogweed, illustration, meadowsweet, rain, rosebay willowherb, scotland, scottish summer, scottish winter, seed, shower, sow's thistle, sun, umbrella, vetch
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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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Connected at last
Finally we have Internet at the new house and I can blog again properly. I do remember the days before the Internet but find it hard to remember how we managed. I certainly wouldn’t have imagined myself writing a blog, … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Growing things, Illustration
Tagged blog, bumblebee, continuity, gardening, grape hyacinths, illustration, internet, little girl, moving house, new house, old house, overdue baby, patio doors, pregnancy, primroses, shoes
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Winding down
Rain is pattering down on the kitchen window and three rooks are rooting around in the newly spread compost in the garden. After tonight there will only be two life drawing classes until the end of term. I am winding … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Illustration, Making changes
Tagged classes, cycling, flowers, illustration, library, life drawing, map, moving house, new baby, new house, people, play park, pregnancy, swimming pool, teaching, trees, walking, winding down, woodland, woods
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Home-made cleaning products
Last summer I had a grand plan to make my own homemade cleaning products. I’d read a few books and some articles on the internet. People waxed lyrical about how much better it is for the environment, your health, and … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Making changes
Tagged all-purpose cleaner, cheap, de-icer, disinfectant, environmentally friendly, fabric softener, healthy, homemade, homemade cleaning products, homemade vinegar, illustration, lemons, pure soap, rose petals, soap flakes, steeping, tea tree oil, thyme, washing-up liquid, weed killer, weeds, white vinegar
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