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Waiting
Phew β Storm Imogen has just swept by! It feels like it hasnβt stopped raining this winter. Yet, there are signs of returning life. Daffodils are out in my pots at the front of the house and the birds are … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged birds, daffodils, hedges, pregnancy, rain, storm imogen, third trimester, waiting, winter
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Connected at last
Finally we have Internet at the new house and I can blog again properly. I do remember the days before the Internet but find it hard to remember how we managed. I certainly wouldnβt have imagined myself writing a blog, … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Growing things, Illustration
Tagged blog, bumblebee, continuity, gardening, grape hyacinths, illustration, internet, little girl, moving house, new house, old house, overdue baby, patio doors, pregnancy, primroses, shoes
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NOT nesting
I hate the word nesting. I don’t mind it being applied to birds in spring because they are actually building nests but when it’s applied to pregnant women it makes me irate. It’s mostly because I don’t want it to … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged clothing rail, common sense, cooking meals, DIY, enormous, freezer, grumpy, hate the term nesting, homemade toy house, Hormones, illustration, leaky, Little Miss Splendid, monster, mother, mum, nesting, pregnancy, preparations, rational, sensible, sore, swollen
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Winding down
Rain is pattering down on the kitchen window and three rooks are rooting around in the newly spread compost in the garden. After tonight there will only be two life drawing classes until the end of term. I am winding … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Illustration, Making changes
Tagged classes, cycling, flowers, illustration, library, life drawing, map, moving house, new baby, new house, people, play park, pregnancy, swimming pool, teaching, trees, walking, winding down, woodland, woods
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Children in Scotland
I was chuffed to bits that an illustration of mine was used in an article about the Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution in the March issue of the Children in Scotland magazine. Children in Scotland is the national agency for … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Illustration
Tagged Children in Scotland, chocolate nests, easter, illustration, mini eggs, pregnancy, Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution
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Seasonal Scrapbook
A spring baby meant it was a bit silly to try and keep up with my usual vegetable garden activities this year. I could just imagine sensitive young plants dying of neglect while I tried to manage all the extra … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged gardening, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, Nigel Slater, personal project, pregnancy, rats, reflux, seasonal scrapbook, snow, Tender, vegetable patch
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Morning sickness
At first Little Owl was quite perplexed by my Morning Sickness (read All-day Sickness). She would grab my shoulder and ask me what I was looking for down the toilet. Now she just quietly shuts the bathroom door on me … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged contraception, cornfield, Flat Cat Gallery, framed, gallery, morning sickness, mounted, mouse, nausea, necessary, normal, picture, pregnancy, vomiting
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Expecting
Are you all still there? Did you survive the storm? Apart from it being a bit blustery here yesterday we knew nothing of it. We listened to the radio in awe as reports came in from the south of double … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged baby, exhaustion, expecting, fainting, ginger, hyper emesis, morning sickness, nausea, pregnancy, raspberry wine, scotland, spring, st jude, storm, vomiting
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‘Drink Me’
This weekend we traveled south to Oxfordshire for a wedding. The hedgerows were full of blossoming hawthorne. The season is much further on than in Scotland. Heavy laden hawthorne always reminds me of a section of the Leeds-Liverpool canal where Big Dreamer and … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged alice in woderland, bloom, blossom, brideshead revisited, drink me, elegance, friends, hawthorne, illustration, leeds-liverpool canal, new orleans foot stompers, oxfordhire, pregnancy, sebastian, sloe, style, wedding, wedding favours
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