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November flowers
Rain pounded down all day yesterday. My pink geranium, still flowering copiously in the shelter of the side return, looked a bit absurd against such a grey November backdrop. Funnily enough pink geraniums don’t appear in Margaret Erskine Wilson’s page … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Growing things
Tagged animals, dogwood, home, insects, knitting needles, Margaret Erskine Wilson, names, november, pink geraniums, plants, rain, spindle, Wildflowers of Britain Month by Month
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October flowers (and nuts)
The weather was glorious at the weekend so we took the chance to get out on some lovely walks. We collected acorns, raced autumn leaves down a brook, crunched our way over beech husks, spotted a jay, and found a … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged acorns, autumn, beech, beech husks, beech mast, beech nuts, holiday, illustration, illustrator, leaves, Margaret Erskine Wilson, october, pale tussock caterpillar, Post Office queue, Private Frazer, sunshine, There was an old lady who swallowed a fly, Wildflowers of Britain Month by Month
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Action packed
It has been an action-packed week. Big Dreamer and I have a new niece. She is sparkly-eyed, with the most beautiful little mouth and chin you’ve ever seen. Oh she’s scrumptious! A hedgehog also briefly took up residence in our … Continue reading
September flowers
It’s always good to find out that you’ve just been out cycling during a weather warning. That’s what happened to me on Monday morning. I did think that the head wind was a bit stronger than usual on the way … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged autumn, conkers, cyclamen, cycling, haws, hill, leaves, Margaret Erskine Wilson, pollinators, printing, sloes, weather warning, Wildflowers of Britain Month by Month
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More beating the bounds…
I have been out beating the bounds again…and getting thoroughly lost! One evening I headed out hoping to pick up a lane that would bring me out down river from our house, so as to complete a southerly loop of … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged beating the bounds, brook, canal, parish boundaries, river
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Beating the Bounds – again!
I have been back walking my loops of the parish boundary (read why here and here). The other evening I rejoined the boundary at the medieval stone cross on the old road to Plymouth. The surface of the road has … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged animal cell, beating the bounds, biology, children, Dan Richards, Devon Wildlife Trust, Dove Grey Reader, education, enclosure act, exeter, golgi apparatus, green circle, green space, Hannah Foley, holloway, illustration, illustrator, John Clare, kids, Local Nature Reserve, lysosomes, natural history, nature, nucleus, orange, red, ribosomes, ridgeway, Robert MacFarlane, rough endoplasmic reticulum, science, smooth endoplasmic reticulum, Stanley Donwood, walking, yellow, yellow ants
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After the Storm
Yesterday an enormous storm rolled in and blew the power at Radio Devon. The kids and I watched in awe from the window as rain pounded the garden. Counting the seconds between lightening strike and thunder clap, the storm stalked … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged After the Storm, badges, biology, black out, blue, brook lamprey, brown, Brown trout, Brownies, chalk stream, children, damselfly, devon, education, end of term, families, fine-lined pea mussel, fish, green, Hannah Foley, health visitor, hollyhocks, illustration, illustrator, kids, lesser water parsnip, natural history, non-fiction, paediatrician, Percy the Park Keeper, radio devon, reports, Salmon, sports day, stick collection, storm, stream water crowfoot, summer holidays, teachers, UK, walking, water river stream, water starwort, water vole, watercress, white-clawed crayfish, wildlife
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July Flowers
July is the prime time for British wildflowers. It is the longest section in Margaret Erskine Wilson’s book Wildflowers of Britain Month by Month. Down by the river new flowers are taking centre stage: up steps yarrow, meadowsweet and dittander. … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged illustration, Margaret Erskine Wilson, Wildflowers of Britain Month by Month
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Walking the bounds
My Dad likes to take a “stroll around the block” of an evening. I think that’s an interesting expression because a “block” is an American term. We don’t really have blocks here do we? My Granddad on my Dad’s side … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged allotments, amphibians, beating the bounds, biology, blue, brown, children, countryside corridor, Devon County Council, Dove Grey Reader, educational, exeter, florist, frogs, green, Hannah Foley, horned marsupial frog, illustration, illustrator, kids, natural history, New York, night, non-fiction, plants, robber frogs, rogation, San Jose Cochrane frog, saxon lane, South America, splendid leaf frog, Strawberry Poison Dart Frog, tink frogs, tithe maps, Twisted Oak, walking around the block
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