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Pants
Last Thursday, the most amazing sound filled the evening air. Bells! I don’t think I’d realised how much I’d missed hearing them until they were ringing again. Thursday night is bell-ringing night at the parish church behind our house. Or, … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Wildlife
Tagged allotment produce show, bell ringing, bells, children, coffee, community, community cafe, community nursing, countryside, COVID-19, district nursing, fete, july, library, meadowsweet, nurse, nursing, pandemic, pants, rain, school holidays, summer, summer reading challenge, tansy
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Super powers
It has been very wet down our way. At the weekend we disturbed Meadow Browns from un-cut fields of hay, the butterflies still flying despite the showers. I suspect the farmers will be glad of the hot weather forecast to … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends
Tagged butterflies, careers, child development, children, computer programmer, family, first milk tooth, football player, hay, hay meadows, Iron Man, jobs, meadow browns, super hero, tennis player, tractor mechanic
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Good Farmers
Here’s the view from our camping pod, early on Sunday morning, nipping out to the loo. It was wonderful to be somewhere different and look out on rolling hills. It’s a fabulous farm, not far from us, where the sense … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Wildlife
Tagged camping, children, Chris Stringer, close contact, Covid, dairy farms, deforestation, degradation, devon, environment, erosion, family farms, farming, feedlots, food, Homo Britannicus, interglacial, isolation, kitchen, local economy, monocultures, parenting, pen feeding, pesticides, provenance, regenerative farming, slash and burn, small farms, soil health
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Where I Write
I hope you had a lovely Easter. I was nursing the full bank holiday but got to see the children do their egg hunt before heading off on my rounds on Sunday morning. There are hundreds of baby bunnies down … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged attic, author life, Bloomsbury Set, cafes, caring, children, class, Clearances, co-working space, computer, Covid, creative life, creative space, desk, Enclosures, family life, first draft, Hannah Foley, laptop, libraries, middle-grade novel, motherhood, mum, notebooks, parenting, Potato Famine, poverty, private space, room, rural working class, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, trains, Virginia Woolf, where I work, Working class, Working class writer, writing, writing life
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Nasal passages
On Friday I was called into school. Wren had put something up her nose. The way Wren told it, her teacher had clocked her across the classroom mid-deed. Hats off to Miss L, I’m not sure I’d have noticed a … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends
Tagged children, COVID-19, foreign body, headteacher, lockdown, nasal passges, nose, pentorch, school, teacher, tweezers
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Seasonal rituals
The children went back to school and it all seemed to be going okay. Then the news came that gatherings were being restricted to six people due to a rise in Covid numbers. My heart sank. After all that has … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends
Tagged allotment, autumn, bulbs, children, colds, cough, Covid, covid restrictions, covid test, COVID-19, crocuses, flu, geese, manure, migration, new term, nurse, pansies, parenting, return to school, runny nose, tulips, vaccines, winter, work
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When I Write
For those of you who don’t know, this week, two years ago, I won the Kelpies Prize at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. On Instagram this week, my publisher posted a photo of me accepting the prize from the wonderful … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged author earnings, children, children's author, debut author, Discover Kelpies, district nurse, Edinburgh International Book Festival, editing, family, holidays, juggling, Kelpies Prize, mental load, middle grade novel, mum, new school, nursing, off-duty, parenting, school holidays, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, time management, tween, two-incomes, writing, writing life, writing process
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