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Pants

Posted on July 26, 2021 by Hannah

Last Thursday, the most amazing sound filled the evening air. Bells! I don’t think I’d realised how much I’d missed hearing them until they were ringing again. Thursday night is bell-ringing night at the parish church behind our house. Or, … Continue reading →

Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Wildlife | Tagged allotment produce show, bell ringing, bells, children, coffee, community, community cafe, community nursing, countryside, COVID-19, district nursing, fete, july, library, meadowsweet, nurse, nursing, pandemic, pants, rain, school holidays, summer, summer reading challenge, tansy | Comments Off

Almond Shortbread

Posted on July 18, 2019 by Hannah

The river banks are full of the frothy plumes of Meadowsweet which scents the air with the smell of almond shortbread. I have been making the effort to try and walk home from work now and again. At three and … Continue reading →

Posted in Family and friends, Growing things | Tagged almond shortbread, almonds, attic, bothered, commute, edits, end of term, hot, kelpies, meadowsweet, peace and quiet, preschool, rain, river, scent, solitude, sport, sports day, summer rain, walk, waterways, window | 1 Comment

Summer flowers

Posted on July 12, 2016 by Hannah

July is a wonderful month for flowers. I love it, cycling along by the river of an evening. I can hardly keep my eyes on the path I’m so busy spotting old friends; comfrey, meadowsweet, red campion, common mallow, cow … Continue reading →

Posted in Countryside, Illustration, Wildlife | Tagged brown, children, comfrey, common mallow, cone, cow parsley, cycling, double yellow lines, drain, education, emergency, evening, fast, goldfinch, grey, handlebars, Hannah Foley, health and safety, healthcare, hogweed, illustration, illustrator, july, kerb, ladybird, lycra, meadowsweet, mountain bike, orange, pavement, red campion, river, road, science, slow, wild flowers, wildlife, yellow, young people | Comments Off

Umbrellas

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Hannah

During a Scottish winter an umbrella is a useless object. Not because it isn’t raining but because the wind will have turned the poor umbrella inside out and ripped it into ragged tatters before you can say brolly. There is … Continue reading →

Posted in Countryside, Growing things | Tagged brolly, crocs, grass, hogweed, illustration, meadowsweet, rain, rosebay willowherb, scotland, scottish summer, scottish winter, seed, shower, sow's thistle, sun, umbrella, vetch | Comments Off

Bird song

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Hannah

The verges around us are over-flowing with the frothy flowers of hogweed and meadowsweet. A multitude of insects busily attend them. Little Owl and I head down to the river again in the hot afternoon for some paddling. It’s becoming … Continue reading →

Posted in Illustration, Wildlife | Tagged Birdwatching With Your Eyes Closed, cattleman, hogweed, hot, meadowsweet, paddling, river, robin, RSPB, simon barnes, summer | Comments Off

Out for a walk

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Hannah

Little Owl and I walked down over the fields and across the river to the other side of the valley this morning. It has been raining a lot here this week so Little Owl enjoyed stomping in all the muddy … Continue reading →

Posted in Countryside | Tagged homemade wine, illustration, meadowsweet, muddy puddles, reminiscing, rosebay willowherb, wellies | Comments Off

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