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May Day
Today is May Day or Beltane, the traditional British festival in celebration of the coming of summer. Between now and Midsummer – a time of elves, faeries and magic – I’ll be writing a series of posts celebrating the folktales … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Making changes
Tagged author, Avery Buckle, beltane, blossom, cherry blossom, children's books, class, elves, faeries, feminism, folk tales, Hannah Foley, kelpies, landscape, magic, may, May Day, middle grade fiction, Midsummer, morality, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, witches, writer
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Huffy herons
Birds, blossom and buds are all flourishing along the river banks now the weather has warmed and it has finally stopped raining. There are rabbits everywhere. I have disturbed the grey heron from his huntings several times on my bike, … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged allotment, birds, blossom, buds, canal, chickens, children, children's books, childrens' book art, cob, cows, dandelions, ducks, eyebrows, farm, farmyard, Hannah Foley, heron, hills, horse, illustration, illustrator, nest, non-fiction, pick-up truck, pigeons, planting, potatoes, rabbits, river banks, rooster, sheep dog, swans
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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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‘Drink Me’
This weekend we traveled south to Oxfordshire for a wedding. The hedgerows were full of blossoming hawthorne. The season is much further on than in Scotland. Heavy laden hawthorne always reminds me of a section of the Leeds-Liverpool canal where Big Dreamer and … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged alice in woderland, bloom, blossom, brideshead revisited, drink me, elegance, friends, hawthorne, illustration, leeds-liverpool canal, new orleans foot stompers, oxfordhire, pregnancy, sebastian, sloe, style, wedding, wedding favours
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