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Category Archives: Countryside
Happy Yorkshire Day
It is with great relief that Little Owl and I have headed down to Yorkshire this week to visit family and friends. We are literally being eaten alive by midges on the farm (me especially). The wet, warm weather is … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Wildlife
Tagged bird, Birdwatching With Your Eyes Closed, dunnock, Edinburgh Festival, Hale and Pace, hedge sparrow, Insect Repellent, Jungle Formula, midges, Simon Birds, Skin So Soft, soap opera, song, songbird, Yorkshire Airlines, Yorkshire Day
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Kingfisher footage
Do you remember I mentioned that a kingfisher had been spotted on the river last week? It turns out it’s a nesting pair and the Farm Manager here, who is like our very own David Attenborough, caught some footage of … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Wildlife
Tagged birdwatching, Farm Manager, fish, illustration, kingfisher nesting pair, kingfishers, magpie, river, Scottish Borders, wildlife
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Purple and gold
The fields on the farm are purple and gold with Timothy and Buttercups. If you look closely you find Doves-foot Cranesbill, Common Mouse-ear, and Common Speedwell hidden among the grasses. Beside the river all sorts of wild flowers fill the banks: Fairy … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged buttercups, comma butterfly, common centaury, common mouse-ear, common speedwell, corn marigolds, dipper, doves-foot cranesbill, fairy flax, fields, forget-me-nots, germander speedwell, Grand Old Duke of York, herb bennet, herb robert, illustration, kingfisher, parr, red campion, river, Salmon, spawning, timothy grass, water avens, welsh poppies, white comfrey
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Ray Bradbury
On the way home from London today I read Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Big Dreamer has been pestering me to read it for ages but I’d resisted because of the weird 70s sci-fi cover on the version we own. I … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged America, book burning, books, creativity, dad, dystopia, Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag, illustration, london, nightmares, Ray Bradbury, stag parties, Thoreau, trains, Walden
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Haring along
In the late part of this afternoon, on our way home from visiting friends, Little Owl and I encountered a hare on the road. He bounded out of an open gateway in the hedgerow before turning to gallop along beside … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged afternoon, dad, edinburgh college of art, evening stroll, hare, hedgerow, illustration, london, New Blood
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To-ings and fro-ings
Following on from yesterday’s post I’ve been thinking that it’s been a bit of a week for thinking about death and loss. Now that’s a cheerful way to start! Little Owl discovered a baby rabbit dead underneath our garden bench … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Making changes
Tagged beech, dead, death, flattened hedgehog, horse chestnut, life, loss, peace, PM, rabbit, Radio 4, rope swing, Rory Morrison, tree
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Solemn business
As I write the sky is a soft blue streaked with pink. The windows of the house are flung open. It has been a beautiful summer’s day and the long hours of daylight up here turn the evening into an … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Wildlife
Tagged chopped down, flat, hedgehog, horse chestnut, illustration, rope swing, small tortoiseshell
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