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Category Archives: Countryside
Keeping warm
This week feels like it has been all about keeping warm. At this time of year the walks Little Owl and I take around the farm and the valley usually have an ulterior kindling-gathering purpose. In fact, to such an … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside
Tagged branch, bug hotel, kindling, oil, speech therapist, sticks, tractor, wood shed
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Bonfire Night excitement
This week the temperature dropped and the promised iciness of a few weeks ago is now here to stay. The morning frost that covers the garden has seen off the last off my nasturtium flowers that had been cheerfully hanging … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged baby's first movements, bonfire night, excitement, frost, larch, sparklers, stars
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A brace of pheasants
This pair appeared on our doorstep this week. Our next door neighbour has been beating for one of the local shoots and brought us home a souvenir. Little Owl took one look at them and said they made her sick. … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Countryside
Tagged beater, berries, bird feeder, blender, brace, mild autumn, pheasants, seeds, shooting, stew, vegetables
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Searching for brown
Yesterday a chill wind blew. It was laden with portents of ice and snow. Today the sheep dogs lounge in the sun on the steps from the farm yard. The weather is warm and mild again but we draw in … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged Big Dreamer, brown, chill wind, dad, farmyard, ice, illustration, Ink, Little Owl, logs, mild, mum, sheepdogs, snow, warm, wood shed
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Bright moon
Here is a photograph from my life drawing class last night. At the beginning of the class I set the students some exercises using collage to help them develop their understanding of shape and the human body. On the way … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged collage, eerie, fog, halloween, human form, illustration, life drawing class, shape, traffic lights
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Colder days
The temperature has dropped in the last few days and we are unusually unprepared. The chimney needs to be swept and the wood shed is bare. These are now urgent items on my ‘To Do’ list. So what have I … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged chimney, chimney sweep, fires, illustration, life drawing classes, logs, publicity, reportage, Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution, teaching, temperature cold, The Cyrenians, vulnerable people, wood shed
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Wildwood
This week skeins of pink-footed geese have been spotted over the farm, making their way south to their winter feeding grounds. Although many pass us by, for some the east coast of Scotland will be their destination and they will … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged book cover, bookaholic, Bowmont sheep, breeding grounds, devon, devon fine fibres, Dovegreyreader Scribbles, farming, feeding grounds, Greenland, Hannah Foley, hedgerows, Iceland, illustration, illustrator, knitting, Lesley, penguin, pink-footed geese, quilting, roger deakin, skeins, song bird, Spitsbergen, wildwood
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A lack of blackberries
This weekend was warm and bright with a lovely crispness to the air that reminds us autumn is here. A maple in the fields turned deep red almost over night and many of the trees round about are starting to … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Countryside, Illustration
Tagged autumn, Beatrix Potter, blackberries, bulbs, Cotton-tail. comfort, crisp. bright, crumble, daffodil, fire, Flopsy, frosty, garden centre, gardening, grate, grey, hyacinth, maple, Mopsy, mornings, pansies, Peter Rabbit, plug plants, raspberries, rose hips, scotland, weeds, winter, winter bedding
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Pebbles
Little Owl’s collection of pebbles from the beach.
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends
Tagged beach, collecting, peebles, precious things, sunshine
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