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Garden warfare
It’s going to be a busy week in our house. Little Owl is not just in one theatrical production but two. Then Friday is the school fete. It’s my first ever school summer fete so I’m pretty excited! I’m in … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Illustration
Tagged ash tree, children, gardening, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, picture book, seedlings, swimming hippos
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Gaps
It’s been a momentous weekend in our house. Little Owl has had a wobbly tooth for ages and it finally fell out. She was having a water fight in the garden when her friend accidentally elbowed her in the jaw … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged children, coin, exchange rate, illustration, kids, macaws, parenting, pillow, teeth, tooth, tooth fairy, water fight, wobbly
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Website Update
Recently my website started to feel like an itchy old skin I’d outgrown again, full of work that no longer fitted, so it was time for a freshen up. The updated website is now live and has on it lots … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged children, education, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, teenagers, update, website
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Mackerel
Mackerel are in season at the moment. We couldn’t be in any doubt of this when a 6ft tall mackerel standing on its hind legs appeared on the high street near our house a few weeks ago. He is affectionately … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged fishing, fishing industry, fishmongers, food, illustration, local, mackerel, neighbourhood, seasonal, sketching
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June
For my seasonal reading in June*, Steve Roud, in The English Year, describes our misunderstanding of the traditional celebrations around midsummer. He says that we’ve been seduced by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream into thinking Midsummer is when fairies and sprites … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Growing things, Illustration
Tagged bonfires, buttercups, common sorrel, countryside, customs, dandelions, fairies, festivals, goldfinches, grasses, great tits, illustration, linnets, ribwort plantain, seeds, sorrel, Stephen Moss, steve proud, the english year, traditions, weeds, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds
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Open Farm Sunday
Today was Open Farm Sunday. The idea behind this fantastic initiative is that we, the general public, can visit the places and people who produce our food and care for our countryside. We headed out to a farm near us, … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged children, combe, devon, farm, human, illustration, lambs, open farm sunday, Oxford Sandy and Black pig, parenting, pigs, plum pudding, summer evenings, tractor, trailer, water butt, watering, watering can, whole
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ECA Degree Show 2015
I’m just back from a fleeting visit to Edinburgh for a meeting and while I was there I popped in to the degree show at the college of art. This year’s illustration graduates are a talented bunch and there was … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged Ailsa Johnson, Andrea Popyordanova, book covers, ceramics, children's books, eca, edinburgh college of art, illustration, Macmillan Prize, picture books, Rachel Cocker, Sophie Powell-Hall
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Half term
We’re deep in the throes of half term. We’ve made dolly peg pirates, baked gingerbread men, made a hanging mobile of the solar system, planted out tomatoes, and spent copious amounts of time at the splash zone (lots of movement-triggered … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Growing things, Illustration
Tagged Devon County Show, devon rubies, dolly pegs, farriers, gingerbread men, half term, horse shoeing, illustration, mobile, pirates, sheep shearing, solar system, splash zone, teething, tomatoes
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Wasps
Out in the garage the other week little Owl pointed up to the roof over my shoulder and asked, “Is that pollen mummy?” Clinging to the wooden beam was a cluster of carefully built little hexagons. As we watched a … Continue reading
Posted in Wildlife
Tagged garage, illustration, nature, slugs, wasps, wasps nest, wildlife
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May
I’ve been delving into my seasonal reading again this month. Steve Roud’s chapter on May in his book The English Year, is a riot of flower strewn celebrations. Roud says that traditionally May would have rivalled Christmas in the scale … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged buttercups, cheese-rolling, cow parsley, cuckoos, ducking day, elms, hedgerows, hobby horses, illustration, jack-by-the-hedge, may, May Day, maypoles, nightingales, ragged robin, reading, seasonal, seasonality, seasons, Stephen Moss, steve roud, stitchwort, the english year, thresholds, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds
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