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Skipping lessons
Did you ever play skipping games as a child? I did. I especially loved the long rope games where two children would turn the rope for the others. Even better was when we had two long ropes turned between each … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Making changes
Tagged arrival of spring, bees, birds, butterflies, childhood, devon, England, games, illustration, long ropes, memories, moving house, nature, nesting, out of step, scotland, skipping, sweetness
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A sunny start
Hello! I’ve managed to find my computer under piles of paper and boxes, and we now have internet. This morning’s job is to turn all theses boxes and piles into some semblance of order so I can get back to … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Making changes
Tagged blue sky, devon, getting organised, illustration, moving house, working from home
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Hiraeth
Do you know the word Hiraeth? Itβs a Welsh word. It kind of means homesickness but really it describes a much deeper feeling than just missing home. Itβs a word for being properly ill or heartbroken in your longing for, … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged devon, hearth, illustration, moving, river, scotland, sea
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Returning
We are back from a lovely week away in the southwest. Highlights included ice creams topped with clotted cream, walks by the sea, buying pollack on the beach for our tea (fresh from the fisherman whoβd just caught it), sampling … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged beach, beer and beard competition, Budleigh Salterton, christening, clotted cream, cream teas, devon, fishermen, home brew, ice cream, illustration, pollack, southwest, vicar
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SCCR update
This morning the ground was covered in a thick hoar frost. Small birds flocked to our bird feeder. Jackdaws sat on the fence and eyed the kitchen window, waiting for Little Owl’s rejected breakfast crusts to be delivered to the … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged birds, devon, drawing, flooding, frost, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, jackdaw, SCCR, scotland, South West, storm
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Wildwood
This week skeins of pink-footed geese have been spotted over the farm, making their way south to their winter feeding grounds. Although many pass us by, for some the east coast of Scotland will be their destination and they will … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged book cover, bookaholic, Bowmont sheep, breeding grounds, devon, devon fine fibres, Dovegreyreader Scribbles, farming, feeding grounds, Greenland, Hannah Foley, hedgerows, Iceland, illustration, illustrator, knitting, Lesley, penguin, pink-footed geese, quilting, roger deakin, skeins, song bird, Spitsbergen, wildwood
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Garlic
This evening was golden as the sun set. The hills were purple and bronze with heather. Coming back later on from a friend’s house, through dark windy lanes, rabbits and mice scattered to the verges in the beam of my … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Growing things
Tagged beans, devon, evening, family, far away, friends, garlic, harvest, heather, illustration, peas, visitors
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Mother’s Day
This morning Little Owl and Big Dreamer brought me breakfast in bed. They had made me this card and Little Owl made this picture at nursery. Big Dreamer had prepped her to say that it was a flower deconstructed! Mother’s … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends
Tagged cards, chest infection, devon, dimpsey, evening, mother's day, sofa
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