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An acorn
Finch stuck a perfect golden acorn to his bedroom door with blue tack. Right in the middle, where his nose might hit the door, if he didn’t stop to open it. He didn’t say a thing about it. It just … Continue reading
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Tagged acorn, allotment, christmas, festive preparations, growing, nuthatch, treehouse, wren
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September
Skeins of geese fly over the roof tops, honking gentle encouragement to each other. It is a time of change in the natural world as creatures all over the planet follow the irresistible, internal tug to migrate. The geese trace … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, autumn, dried beans, dried peas, geese, migration, new shoes, pumpkins, school, soil, stews, winter
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Midsummer
My children are growing, I’ve started to get silver hairs in my fringe, and yesterday was the mid-point in the year. In my day job, I am organising some drug treatment regimes for patients for 6 months time. That’s Christmas! … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, author event, book festival, Childrens Author, childrens books, ChipLitFest, Chipping Norton Book Festival, climate, devon, Devon lane, family, Hannah Foley, land, Love Devon magazine, nature, school visits, spring, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, tulips, well-being, wellbeing
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Growing
Just after I signed off from the blog I had news I could reveal the cover of my latest book, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, so here it is in case you missed it on Twitter and Instagram. The … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, author, beetroot, blackberries, children's books, Claire Ratinon, climate change, cornflowers, cover reveal, crops, deadlines, devon, drought, environment, family, grow your own, growing, Jessie Price, Jurassic coast, Lucy Rose, managing time, Mauritius, mental health, mental illness, pollinators, proof, Rashmi Sirdeshpande, resolutions, Riverford, sewage, soil, spinning plates, summer, summer of sewage, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, time, Unearthed, Wales, writing, Zephyr Books
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Light-filled days
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee feels like a long time ago now. Elizabeth seems a dear old lady, but I have mixed feelings about the institution of monarchy. I lived in Scotland, where the Crown has done some truly terrible things. … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa Writes, allotment, august, bank holiday, bees, blight, book events, bookbag, chickens, climate, colonialism, Colour Table, devon, Duke of York, evenings, exeter, fire, hills, honeysuckle, Hot Chocolate, imperialism, independent bookshop, jubilee, Karla Neblett, King of Rabbits, Light-filled days, lightened soul, mulit-nationals, new potatoes, parsnips, penguin, pennines, perennial cabbage, perennial kale, produce, pta, Queen, richard branson, rounders, sausages, school fete, scotland, slow worm, solstice, sweetpeas, tractor, Wales
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Spy badgers
April has been such a dry month this year. I’d been panicking about sowing my seeds too early at the allotment after the temperature dropped, and then decided I’d maybe done right, glad my sowings had at least got a … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, April, author event, author visit, badger, children's author, children's books, ediitng process, editing, grow your own, Hannah Foley, middle grade fiction, no-dig, panic, potatoes, sweetcorn, writing, writing workshop
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September wobbles
The start of the new school term now, usually finds me down at the allotment, lighting a fire for the weed pile. I always feel a bit wobbly at this time of year, my children making their way out into … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, children's author, collecting seeds, digging, emotions, feelings, fire, fruit, green manure, growing, Hannah Foley, manure, new term, new year's resolutions, parenting, school, seeds, spring, vegetables
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Potatoes
Every window and door in the house is open as I type this. Is it hot with you? I got very red in the face digging up the last of my new potatoes at the allotment. There were rumours of … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, blight, devon, district nurse, end-of-term present, grow your own, heat wave, new potatoes, NHS, school, sports day, summer fayre, teacher, vegetables
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Bouquet
To cut a very long story short, we are on day eight of cooking on a camping stove and washing up at the outside tap. The kitchen fitters who were supposed to be installing our new kitchen had to isolate … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, camping stove, cornflowers, COVID-19, cut flowers, hospital, isolation, kitchen, new kitchen, outside tap
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Seed plans
Well, what I really want to know is, what are you doing about seeds this year? My favourite little Welsh seed company has been overwhelmed by orders, and due to social distancing in the seed packing sheds, can’t take any … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, chitting, COVID-19, dad advice, dahlias, flowers, garden planning, gardening, grow your own, potatoes, sarah raven, saving seed, seed orders, seed planning, seed potatoes, seeds, vegetables
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