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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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Time for school
The skies are leaden and the day is blustery. The radio regales me with dire weather reports from Scotland; wind, rain and the chance of snow at rush hour tomorrow. Meanwhile I sit snugly at my desk and press Send … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged children, education, elephants, family, gazelle, giraffe, Hannah Foley, hippo, hippopotamus, illustration, illustrator, kids, mountains, non-fiction, nose wiping, rhino, rhinoceros, sacred ibis, safari, school application, scotland, snot, spoonbills, starting school, stormy weather, tissues, waterhole, wildebeest, zebra
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More beating the bounds
We have been lucky this week. The days have been bathed in a soft autumn light picking out all the shades of bronze and gold in the fading leaves. On the old tythe maps the parish was covered in orchards … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Illustration
Tagged children, forest, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, kids, picture books, wood
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Savouring slowness
Finch has a cold and has been wandering around the house wheezing like a little train. It’s gone to his chest and he’s asthmatic. He clamped on some child’s ear defenders from the bottom of the toy box proclaiming that … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged asthma, blue, bonfire night, brown, bunny, children, cold, delia smith, ear defenders, green, half term, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, insects, kids, Mole, park, parkin, picture books, rabbit, red leaves, singing, wheezing, wood
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Christmas cards
I’m so sorry to do this to you. I’m well aware it’s only October. Here goes…Christmas cards! There I’ve said it. I’ve got Christmas cards to sell. The reason I’m posting about them now is because I will be seeing … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged cards, children, christmas, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, lights, market, presents, seasons, snow, toy shop, toys, wooden
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Action packed
It has been an action-packed week. Big Dreamer and I have a new niece. She is sparkly-eyed, with the most beautiful little mouth and chin you’ve ever seen. Oh she’s scrumptious! A hedgehog also briefly took up residence in our … Continue reading
Legs
We are back from a lovely week in Wales. Here is a view from a sea cave we explored one day. The last day was showery (it being Wales and all) and we dived into a well-known department store for … Continue reading
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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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
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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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