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Cake and Pie
I haven’t done a recipe for a while, have I? These are two tasty ones we have tried recently. The fact that they are both from supermarket magazines sums up a lot about our lives at the moment – menu … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Illustration, Making changes
Tagged Apple, apricot, hand written, illustration, leek, loaf, Mark Haddon, marmalade, Marmalade-glazed apricot loaf, Pie, poem, Sausage, sausage apple leek pie, Tesco magazine, The River Car, Waitrose magazine
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A bright moment of calm
As a mum and freelancer the inside of my head most often resembles a tumbling, teeming ant hill; to-do lists and piles of dirty laundry marching to and fro as far as the eye can see. A new baby and … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Making changes
Tagged children, confidence, course, freelance, grant, green, illustration, leaf, light, moment of calm, new baby, red, residential, skills, window, writing
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Christmas Cards
Little Owl was very busy the other morning before school. When I asked her what she was doing she said she was tidying so that Santa didn’t trip over when he came in with her presents. I didn’t like to … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged cat, christmas, christmas cards, door step, front door, milk bottle, robin, wreath
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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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Le Immagini della Fantasia
I can understand our ancestors starting to light bonfires at this time of year. For me the change from October to November is full of images of lights glinting against the seasonal gloom. At going home time car headlights wearily … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Making changes
Tagged children's illustrator, children's writer, clocks going back, europe, exhibition, illustration, Italy, l'immagini della fantasia, november, october, scotland, soggy shoes, touring, vivian french
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Returning
We are back from a lovely week away in the southwest. Highlights included ice creams topped with clotted cream, walks by the sea, buying pollack on the beach for our tea (fresh from the fisherman who’d just caught it), sampling … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged beach, beer and beard competition, Budleigh Salterton, christening, clotted cream, cream teas, devon, fishermen, home brew, ice cream, illustration, pollack, southwest, vicar
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Absence
I’m going away for two weeks. Outrageous, I hear you cry! Surely there’s washing to be done and vegetables to puree? Well yes, there is, but I’m leaving Big Dreamer in charge. Not for the whole two weeks. That would … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged boots, clean pants, course, Dad's in charge, everyday, illustration, internet, jungle, pureed vegetables, red sock, residential, satsuma, tiger, washing
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Boilers
This weekend our boiler broke down. We had no hot water or heating just as autumn blew in. Boilers have a sixth sense about impending cold weather, and a masochistic sense of humour. It’s all fixed now, which is a … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged boiler, broken, cold, frost, illustration, parent's evening, rain, reading book, rites of passage, school run, Sesame Street, weather
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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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