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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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Trapped in Tesco
It is no word of a lie to say that I spent most of one day this week trying to do our weekly grocery shopping. I began to wonder if I’d ever come out of the store alive. Since Finch … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged baby, holiday, illustration, mum, parenting, sketches, small children, Tesco
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Home
We’re home from our holidays well-rested, well-fed, and generally restored. Here are some of my sketches from our time away. We had gorgeous weather and so spent a fair bit of time on the beach. A beach is one of the natural … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged baby, bath, frisbee, holidays, illustration, Novak Djokovic, sand dune, sketching, Wales, Wimbledon
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Holidays
We’re off on our holidays to Wales tomorrow. As always with a small baby, we’re taking half the house. This is compensated for by my wardrobe, which is severely depleted by virtue of the fact that I can only get … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged bereavement, editorial, Hannah Foley, holidays, illustration, illustrator, Wales
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Fireside Tales of the Traveller Children
Getting up in the night to feed Finch has had a number of unexpected benefits. I heard the dawn chorus one morning, bright and unearthly coming through the gently diminishing gloom and seeping between the layers of my sleep-thickened brain. … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged AOI, Association of Illustrators, birlinn, body-snatchers, books, breastfeeding, burkers, caravans, children, dawn chorus, dialectograms, Duncan Williamson, fairytales, Fireside Tales of the Traveller Children, glasgow, illustration, kindle, Mitch Miller, motorhomes, reading, review, scotland, sleep, storytelling, tents, Travellers, Travelling community, Travelling people
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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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Empire Biscuits
This weekend we went along to the British Pipe Band Championships. Pipe bands are mostly found in Scotland but there are lots in other places with celtic connections. A band consists of the pipers (on bagpipes) and then the drummers … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Illustration
Tagged big bass drum, British Pipe Band Championships, dancing, drummers, empire biscuit, german biscuits, glace cherry, illustration, jam, jelly sweet, marching, moving, obsession, pipe bands, pipers, reels, scotland, Scottish, shortbread, world war 1
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Nappy accident
An awful thing happened to Little Owl this week. I was changing Finch’s nappy in the lounge and she came running in to help. In her enthusiastic eagerness she didn’t look where she was stepping and put her foot right … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged dirty, empty nest, illustration, nappy, school, shoes, teachers
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A new patch
Over the last few weeks Little Owl (now with Finch too) and I have been getting to know our new patch. We hot-footed it to a nearby garden centre to stock up the bird feeders and gradually the locals have … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Illustration
Tagged blackbirds, blue tits, buds, dandelions, Finch, illustration, jackdaw, little girl, Little Owl, magpie, moss, robin, scotland, slippers, sparrows, starlings, tree
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