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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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August flowers
I don’t know about where you are but around us it’s been a dreary old August, not much warmth but plenty of dark grey clouds and rain. Everything is looking very battered and I don’t think my tomatoes are ever … Continue reading
Postscript
As a postscript to my last post, I was recently reading about the cities of the world with the most trees. There’s a very cool-looking website put together by MIT called Treepedia where they are charting the green canopy of … Continue reading
Posted in Making changes, Wildlife
Tagged Access to Nature, green canopy, green spaces, MIT, Treepedia, Vancouver
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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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Grounded
We found this poor chap in our garden yesterday! He must have been brought down by the storm. He’s a Jersey Tiger moth which is a rare day-flying moth. Sadly it’s just a bit rarer now. Little Owl carefully placed … Continue reading
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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Mad hattiness
Wren and Finch are big fans of carbohydrates. They would live entirely on bread, potatoes and pasta if they could. Finch’s potato passion reached new heights with this season’s jersey royals so he was utterly disgusted when we made a … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged amphibians, baby, biology, carbohydrates, children, dancing, education, europe, flower pots, frog, garden, Hannah Foley, hat, illustration, illustrator, jersey royals, kids, lost property, natural history, nature, park, potato salad, potatoes, salamander, school run, toad, 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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Microwave conspiracies
My Dad has a conspiracy theory about microwaves. It goes like this. Whichever way he puts his mug of coffee into the microwave, it always finishes with the mug handle turned away from him when he goes to get it … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Wildlife
Tagged black, brimstone, brown, butterfly, children, conspiracy theories, dad, education, elevenses, Hannah Foley, hedgehog, illustration, illustrator, kids, microwaves, natural history, orange, red, tortoiseshell, yellow
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