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Cuttings
Little Owl went back to school today after two weeks of Easter holidays in which it was either grey and raining or grey and cold. Finch and Wren were bereft as they waved her through the school doors. What would … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Growing things
Tagged back to school, black currant, books, boy, cat, cats, children, childrens' book art, chimneys, city, cold, cutting, Easter holidays, fiction, goldfinches, grass, hair, Hannah Foley, holly tree, illustration, illustrator, kid lit art, kids, mussel shells, picture books, picture books art, prickle strips, rain, rooftops, rose clippings, rudbeckia pursuer, sawfly, slug pellets, slugs, sunset
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Patience
One of my new year’s resolutions was to start a walks journal. My idea was to make a sort of scrapbook of our family walks through the year by collecting maps and leaflets, and making notes of the weather, café … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Illustration
Tagged allotment, baby, bees, birds, blossom, blues, children, cycling, dry point, flagpole cherry, foxgloves, garden, gardening, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, January, maple, patience, pointing, printmaking, rain, sitting, soil, weather, wet, wind
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Christmas bustle
The kids break up on Friday so the end is in sight. Christmas plays, Christmas concerts, Christmas fairs, Christmas parties, and nativities are all done. Just Christmas jumper day (oh yes!), Christmas school dinners and one more deadline for me, … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged brass band, christmas, church, Exeter Railway Band, illustration, Lucy and Tom's Christmas, nativity, park, rain, Salvation Army, Shirley Hughes, snow
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November flowers
Rain pounded down all day yesterday. My pink geranium, still flowering copiously in the shelter of the side return, looked a bit absurd against such a grey November backdrop. Funnily enough pink geraniums don’t appear in Margaret Erskine Wilson’s page … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Growing things
Tagged animals, dogwood, home, insects, knitting needles, Margaret Erskine Wilson, names, november, pink geraniums, plants, rain, spindle, Wildflowers of Britain Month by Month
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August flowers
I don’t know about where you are but around us it’s been a dreary old August, not much warmth but plenty of dark grey clouds and rain. Everything is looking very battered and I don’t think my tomatoes are ever … Continue reading
Boomerang jobs
Sometimes it feels like Big Dreamer and I are trapped in an episode of Fawlty Towers on a loop. We can’t seem to do any jobs around the house without them boomeranging right round and pinging us in the head … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Growing things, Illustration
Tagged alphabet, badger, black, boomerang jobs, children, educational, family, fawlty towers, garden centre, gardening, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, kids, life, local, meles meles, natural history, rain, water butt, white, yellow
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Storm Angus
The day is every shade of grey in the aftermath of Storm Angus. Rain is pounding down so hard the puddles are full of bubbles. Little Owl skipped nimbly between them on the way to school, while I trudged behind … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged black, boy, brown, cake, double buggy, grey, Hannah Foley, homemade, illustration, illustrator, mince meat, new shoes, puddles, purple, pushchair, rain, school, school run, storm angus, uniform, white
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Big yellow wheels
After a full day of pouring rain kept us confined indoors on Saturday we opted for a brisk romp upriver on Sunday. There the river is only a third of the width it is down near our house but it … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged autumn, diversity, ethnic minorities, fertiliser, forgetful, frost, girl, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, mixed race, mum, navy, ploughing match, rain, raincoat, river, tractor, walks, wellies, yellow
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Waiting
Phew – Storm Imogen has just swept by! It feels like it hasn’t 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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