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World Book Day 2020
It is light now when I come in from my morning bike rides. The riverbanks are full of bird song and lolloping bunnies. In the streets near us, front garden shrubs explode with sparrow chatter as we pass on the … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged 2020, Author events, birdsong, book characters, book launch, capes, Cardboard Kingdom, cardboard modelling, children's books, comics, costumes, cycling, favourite characters, Hannah Foley, Harry Potter, How Billy Hippo Learned His Colours, illustrator, independent bookshop, light, Little Door Books, parenting, Portobello Bookshop, rabbits, sparrows, spring, the Beast, vivian french, World Book Day
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Autumn images
I have some lovely autumn images lingering in my mind as I settle down to work this morning. There was Little Owl dancing across the damp grass at the park in the near dusk on our way home from swimming. … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Countryside
Tagged apple crumble, apple rings, apples, autumn, autumn leaves, cookers, devon, dusk, early morning, eaters, golden, hidden door, illustration, images, light, old wall, orange, orchard, park, passenger ferry, red, swan
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Goodbyes
The house is full of boxes. I’m feeling wistful about leaving Scotland. There are many things I will miss but some things I won’t. I won’t miss the wind that inhabits Edinburgh all year round. It stalks the tall streets … Continue reading
Posted in Making changes
Tagged autumn, bungalows, ecology, edinburgh, farewells, generosity, goodbye, graciousness, grey, growing up, illustration, landscape, leaving, light, moving, Norman MacCaig, people, poetry, Return to Scalpay, scotland, Scottishness understatement, space, the Woodland Trust, wind
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March
It is the beginning of a new month so I turn to my seasonal reading again. In his book The English Year, Steve Roud’s chapter on March is preoccupied with the weather. March “comes in like a lion and out … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged ash buds, birds, borrowed days, dunk, hares, illustration, light, mad march hares, march, migration, migratory restlessness, Mothering Sunday, spring, St Chad's Day, St David's Day, St Patrick's Day, St Winneral's Day, Stephen Moss, steve roud, sunrise, swallows, the english year, vernal equinox, warmth, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds, winter, zugunruhe
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A bright moment of calm
As a mum and freelancer the inside of my head most often resembles a tumbling, teeming ant hill; to-do lists and piles of dirty laundry marching to and fro as far as the eye can see. A new baby and … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Making changes
Tagged children, confidence, course, freelance, grant, green, illustration, leaf, light, moment of calm, new baby, red, residential, skills, window, writing
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Seeing
The day is full of sweeping showers, gliding in, down, and away again. Shafts of pale wintery sunlight beam out of breaks in the clouds, illuminating the landscape in an affectionate glow. The trees are sodden, creating a fine black … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside
Tagged 2013, 2014, A Summer Book, A Winter Book, brilliance, countryside, diligence, John Updike, Kathleen Jamie, light, limitations, new year, river, shortfalls, sightlines, Tove Jansson, W.H. Auden, winter
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Q. What is better than muddy puddles?
A. Muddy icy puddles. That was the opinion of Little Owl and Big Dreamer this afternoon anyway. We headed up into the Pentland Hills on the southwest edge of Edinburgh for a bracing winter’s walk. Little Owl and Big Dreamer … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Countryside, Family and friends
Tagged apple cake, edinburgh, Good Things to Eat, ice, illustration, light, lucas hollweg, muddy puddles, pentland hills, winter walks
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Transport
This morning Little Owl and I crossed the fields to deliver a letter in the village. The morning glowed in the bright slanting light. As we neared the village we caught up with one of the farmers and his dog … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged clearing up, fields, freezer, illustration, learning styles, letter, light, toddler, train, transporter, walk
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