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Still
Two thirds of the windows of our half-term holiday let are filled with sky, the remainder with the rise and fall of the tide in the estuary. Just up the road, great rollers unfurl onto the shore with plumes of … Continue reading
Toad in the log pile
I was moving logs from the chopping block to the log store. The wood had been chopped the day before and a toad had taken up residence. I almost didnβt see him, then he was there, and completely impossible to … Continue reading
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Tagged devon, in the moment, log pile, mobile phones, nature, Norman MacCaig, poetry, summer, toad, wildlife
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Midsummer
My children are growing, I’ve started to get silver hairs in my fringe, and yesterday was the mid-point in the year. In my day job, I am organising some drug treatment regimes for patients for 6 months time. That’s Christmas! … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, author event, book festival, Childrens Author, childrens books, ChipLitFest, Chipping Norton Book Festival, climate, devon, Devon lane, family, Hannah Foley, land, Love Devon magazine, nature, school visits, spring, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, tulips, well-being, wellbeing
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Steam and song
On Sunday, bubbling pans on the hob, we had the kitchen windows open to let out the steam. A soft rain fell outside, the gentle putter of the falling drops punctuating by the occasional ding of a larger drop hitting … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Growing things, Making changes, Wildlife
Tagged 2021, bike ride, birdsong, blackbird, blue tit, Covid, COVID-19, cycling, daffodils, lockdown, nature, rain, river, spring, vaccinations
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Sunbathing
What a June it is turning out to be! We went to a local pub for lunch with some friends for Father’s Day. Inevitably the children could only sit at the table for limited length of time so we headed … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, beer garden, birds, children, community nursing, district nursing, father's day, frog, gardening, golden mornings, grasses, june, manure pile, nature, parenting, pub, pub lunch, rain, river, rounds, slow worm, slow worms, sunbathing, sunshine, visits, water meadow, wildlife
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An eventful weekend
Did you survive the snow? Apart from the odd mound left from road clearing, ours has all gone. After living in Scotland I find snow so evocative, especially being in a rural community. As many of you will know, country … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Making changes, Wildlife
Tagged agapanthus, albrighton rambler, biology, bird feeder, blue tit, campanula, children, chives, drawing, ecology, education, family, garden, goldfinch, Hannah Foley, hebe, illustration, illustrator, kids, natural history, nature, primroses, robin, sketching, sparrow, wildlife, wren
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Beating the Bounds – again!
I have been back walking my loops of the parish boundary (read why here and here). The other evening I rejoined the boundary at the medieval stone cross on the old road to Plymouth. The surface of the road has … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged animal cell, beating the bounds, biology, children, Dan Richards, Devon Wildlife Trust, Dove Grey Reader, education, enclosure act, exeter, golgi apparatus, green circle, green space, Hannah Foley, holloway, illustration, illustrator, John Clare, kids, Local Nature Reserve, lysosomes, natural history, nature, nucleus, orange, red, ribosomes, ridgeway, Robert MacFarlane, rough endoplasmic reticulum, science, smooth endoplasmic reticulum, Stanley Donwood, walking, yellow, yellow ants
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Mad hattiness
Wren and Finch are big fans of carbohydrates. They would live entirely on bread, potatoes and pasta if they could. Finchβs potato passion reached new heights with this seasonβs jersey royals so he was utterly disgusted when we made a … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged amphibians, baby, biology, carbohydrates, children, dancing, education, europe, flower pots, frog, garden, Hannah Foley, hat, illustration, illustrator, jersey royals, kids, lost property, natural history, nature, park, potato salad, potatoes, salamander, school run, toad, wildlife
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