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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 didn’t 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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Growing
Just after I signed off from the blog I had news I could reveal the cover of my latest book, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, so here it is in case you missed it on Twitter and Instagram. The … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, author, beetroot, blackberries, children's books, Claire Ratinon, climate change, cornflowers, cover reveal, crops, deadlines, devon, drought, environment, family, grow your own, growing, Jessie Price, Jurassic coast, Lucy Rose, managing time, Mauritius, mental health, mental illness, pollinators, proof, Rashmi Sirdeshpande, resolutions, Riverford, sewage, soil, spinning plates, summer, summer of sewage, The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair, time, Unearthed, Wales, writing, Zephyr Books
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Bang
May started with a bang for us, quite literally. Finch leap-frogged a bollard, didn’t make it, and face-planted the pavement. Amongst the tears and considerable amount of blood, there was a silver lining. Through wet eyes, he grinned at me … Continue reading
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Tagged aphids, author, blue tits, bluebells, cycling, event, fossil-hunting, fossils, Hannah Foley, landscape, losing milk teeth, may, may blossom, meadows, paddling, pandemic, place, rambling roses, scent, spring, summer, swifts, writer
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Summer Memories
Here’s a few memories from the summer to share… I met up with a couple of friends at the book festival in Edinburgh. It was lovely to get together and chat books, art and writing to our hearts’ content. The … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged Aberfeldy, adventure, author, book events, book festival, children's author, children's books, edinburgh, Edinburgh International Book Festival, fiction, friends, imagination, magic, memories, MG novel, middle-grade book, Salmon Rushdie, scones, scotland, signing, storytelling traditions, summer, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, Windmill Bookshop, writing
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Departures
I hope you had a lovely Summer. We returned from Scotland with our hearts full of memories of mountaintop views and the evening light glittering the surface of the river. It was just wonderful and exactly what we needed. Back … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends
Tagged author, autumn migration, family, Hannah Foley, highlands, holidays, lunch boxes, marking time, name tags, new shoes, parenting, PE kit, river, school kit, school uniform, scotland, summer, swifts
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Pants
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
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Allotment Update
Okay, I think we’re all in need of an allotment update aren’t we?! Swiss Chard – middling. Growing but it’s getting a lot of attention from the pigeons. Unwanted attention from my point of view. Asparagus – good this year … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things
Tagged allotment, asparagus, beetroot, blackberries, broad beans, carrots, cornflowers, dahlias, fruit, gardening, grow your own, growing, marigolds, Monty Don, nasturtiums, new potatoes, perpetual onions, pigeons, pumpkins, rudbeckia, salad, slugs, strawberries, summer, summer holidays, sweet williams, sweetpeas, swiss chard, tomatoes, update, vegetables, Wales
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Cloudburst
Yesterday evening, from the back door, I watched a cloudburst of summer rain fall. The door was wide open to let the steam out of the kitchen. Big Dreamer had a vat of bubbling jam on the hob. It was … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Growing things
Tagged allotment, august, blackberries, choir, cut flowers, dahlias, flowers, fruit, grow your own, Hannah Foley, jam, name lables, new term, plums, rudbeckia, school uniform, summer, summer rain, sweet peas
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Scrapes
There was a time, with small children, where I felt as though I was in continual scrapes. Some of them were so ridiculous and laughable that I half expected a candid camera crew to jump out. I’ve written about a … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends
Tagged a38, accident, allotment, Brownies, candid camera, carrots, dahlias, devon, Devon bank, directions, google maps, hedgerow, lanes, lost, loudspeaker, national express coach, parenting, parenting fail, passing place, phone, sat nav, splatford split, stuck, summer, summer holidays, swimming lesson, wrong direction
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