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Bleak midwinter
So many people complain about January as being long and bleak but it is the darkening of November and the deep gloom of the days around the Winter Solstice which make me cower. By the time New Year is done, … Continue reading
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Tagged Author events, children's books, fossils, hyacinths, January, Jurassic coast, mental health, midwinter, river, snow, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair
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Picture Books 2022
The Tree is down and the decorations put away. The kids have been freshly bathed and checked for head lice (what a job!), ready for the new term. I brought the hyacinth bulbs we planted in the autumn, out of … Continue reading
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Tagged A Dress With Pockets, Alice Melvin, Briony May Smith, comet, Deborah Smith, Elli Woollard, hyacinths, I am the Subway, Jenny Lovelie, Joe Todd-Stanton, Jon Agee, Karine Polwart, Kate Leiper, Kim Hyo-eun, Lily Murray, Mermaid Moon, new year, Nora Brech, Paula White, picture books, The Baker by the Sea, The Last Rainbow Bird, The Queen of the BIrds, The Wall in the Middle of the Book, winter
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New year, new life
The leaden skies and downpours have lifted this morning to reveal a bright and frosty landscape. It seems appropriate because yesterday evening I became an aunty for the first time! Well done to my wonderful sister who managed the whole … Continue reading
Hyacinths
Big Dreamer and I lived for a while in a British city that I shall forever remember as a dark place. We lived in a series of terraced houses where light never seemed to touch the interior. It felt like … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Illustration
Tagged canaries, cities, hyacinths, safe places to grow
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