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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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Happy New Year!
The festive holidays were bookended by headlice and a stomach bug. In between I didn’t have much of a break, juggling nursing with another round of edits. Still, we had a lovely time seeing family and friends. I think we … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Growing things, Making changes
Tagged 2020, break, christmas, festive, fresh air, gardening, grasses, headlice, holidays, indulgence, juggling, moon, new year, nursing, parenting, purple skies, seed catalogues, simple, solstice, stomach bug, sunset, winter, wonder
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Hello 2019!
How was your Christmas and New Year? I hope you had a lovely time, and managed to find some restful moments in amongst the busyness. We travelled back yesterday from Yorkshire after visiting Big Dreamer’s side of the family. The … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration, Making changes
Tagged car journeys, christmas, daylight, local, new year, new year's resolutions, simple, slowing down, winter, yorkshire
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Nerves
I can’t even tell you how relieved I am that the Christmas tree is gone. I had it down on the 27th and wrestling it out of the back door was major catharsis. It wasn’t the tree’s fault. It was … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged children, Chorthippus parallelus, Christmas tree, cricket, education, green, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, insect, mini beasts, new tooth, new year, parenting, small children, teething, wildlife
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Acrobat
It’s my last chapter of Steve Roud’s The English Year and I have been savouring it, hence the reason I’m not posting about it until January is nearly over! Roud says that traditionally much more of January would have been … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged acrobat, bean, christmas, Circus, clove, highwire, illustration, king, knave, Lamb's Wool, new year, pea, Plough Monday, Queen, resolutions, seasonal living, steve roud, the english year, Twelfth Night, Twelfth Night Cake, Wassailing
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Happy New Year!
Fifteen minutes to go!!! Happy New Year everyone! Thanks again for all your support this year. Here’s to a happy and healthy 2016 for you all.
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged 2016, grandfather clock, happy, healthy, new year
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December
It is December and everyone is busy with the lead up to Christmas. In his chapter on December in his book The English Year, Steve Roud reports that, perhaps unsurprisingly, most of what we consider to be a traditional English … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged Aguilanneuf, America, banning Christmas, books, christmas, Christmas pudding, Christmas tree, Church of Scotland, Circus, climate change, conservation, countryside, Craigmillar, December, England, environment, festival, flocks, frost, Frumenty, Germany, goose, hogmanay, illustration, Little France, Long-tailed Tits, Mary Queen of Scots, Merrie England, mistletoe, new year, Old French, Puritans, Restoration, roll-up, Santa Claus, scotland, seasons, Short-eared owls, solar panels, Springwatch, Stephen Moss, steve roud, storytelling, the english year, traditions, vegetarianism, victorians, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds, winter, Yule log
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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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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
Happy New Year
Happy New Year everyone! May 2014 be a wonderful year for you and yours.
Posted in Illustration
Tagged 2014, best wishes, cheers, fizz, greetings, illustration, new year
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