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Wren turned three at the weekend. I have been packing away her old clothes into bags to be passed onto my niece but goodness, I did feel funny about it. With each passing year the clothes get bigger and she’s … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Growing things
Tagged baby, chitting, clothes, espalier, essay, Every, growing children, peach tree, poem, poetry, potatoes, seeds, Wendy Cope
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Patience
One of my new year’s resolutions was to start a walks journal. My idea was to make a sort of scrapbook of our family walks through the year by collecting maps and leaflets, and making notes of the weather, café … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Illustration
Tagged allotment, baby, bees, birds, blossom, blues, children, cycling, dry point, flagpole cherry, foxgloves, garden, gardening, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, January, maple, patience, pointing, printmaking, rain, sitting, soil, weather, wet, wind
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas everyone! Thanks for all your wonderful support and for following my adventures on this blog. Lots of love to you and yours x
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged 2017, baby, christmas, family life, feminism, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, mental load, merry christmas, mistletoe, parenting, priorities, wrapping paper
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The other day Finch broke my necklace. It wasn’t just any old necklace. It was the necklace Big Dreamer gave me when Wren was born. It has five little stars on it, one for each of us. I wear it … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged advice, baby, black, boy, broken, cafe, children, christmas, crawling, dad, Dartmoor, Dartmoor Park Rangers, dry point, etching, father, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, necklace, printmaking, robin, tree, white, women
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Drip drip
It poured on the school run this morning. The rain dripped off my hood, onto the end of my nose, and from there bounced off alternate knees. Wren screamed her head off when I put the rain cover on the … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged advice, Anita Klein, art college, artist, baby, crawling, dry point, evening class, graduate, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, Jeremy Speck, lynn bailey, printmaker, printmaking
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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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Ladybird lunch
Wren fell into the toy box like a sky diver this week; head first, arms back. All I could see was a pair of legs back-pedaling frantically. She also attempted to eat a ladybird. We’ve had loads of ladybirds in … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Growing things, Wildlife
Tagged baby, botany, forget-me-nots, herb robert, hibernation, illustration, ladybirds, Margaret Erskine Wilson, natural history, waking up, Wildflowers of Britain Month by Month
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A skunk stripe
I am now catching most of the dawn on my early morning bike rides. The sky ahead of me is full of radiant hues of pink, apricot and lilac. The bright Lenten moon sits on my shoulder. The air is … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged baby, children, crawling, cuttlefish, cycling, dawn, education, gloss, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, kids, lenten moon, marine conservation zones, paint, parenting, quahog clam, river, rudbekia purpurea, sea pen, seahorse, seeds, spiny squat lobster, starfish, the blue belt, The Wildlife Trusts, tomatoes, white-sided dolphin, Wildlife Watch magazine
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Blackbird
The days have been long and hot here. I have been sitting Wren in the garden in her baby bouncer in the shade of the Japanese maple. She usually falls fast asleep, the dappled light dancing over her flickering eyelids, … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged alley, baby, blackbird, cats, children, city, digital, dog, football, garden, hot, houses, illustration, Japanese maple, neighbours, painterly, park, picture books, pigeons, shade, sleeping, sunshine, telegraph pole, town, tree, wren
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Leftovers
Finch is at the stage where he wants to have a go at feeding himself and it’s a messy business. For someone like me, with a strong food waste conscience, it’s just about unbearable to watch. We spread a big … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged animal poo, baby, feeding himself, food waste, hedgehog, hedgehog poo, illustration, learning to feed self, oilcloth, parenting, self-feeding, wildlife
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