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Visitors
Look at some of the beautiful visitors we’ve had to our garden recently. The black and white striped insect is a day-flying moth called the Jersey Tiger Moth – very striking. And don’t you think the underside of the Red … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Wildlife
Tagged Covid, garden, gardening for wildlife, jersey tiger moth, peacock butterfly, scotland, summer holidays, wildlife
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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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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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Lost a shoe but gained a…
We are back from a lovely time away, involving lots of ice cream, sand and sea. Finch lost a shoe but gained a dumper truck. Little Owl had to retire her favourite kite (hole in one side) but learned how … Continue reading
Sailing and sowing
The summer holidays are drawing to a close. School re-starts on Tuesday. The fantastic weather over the bank holiday was a great way to end and was worth all the previous weeks of dreariness. We finally launched a little sailing … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Making changes
Tagged allotment patch, back to school, boat, front door, kindness, renovation, sailing, sea, summer holidays, water, waves, yellow
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After the Storm
Yesterday an enormous storm rolled in and blew the power at Radio Devon. The kids and I watched in awe from the window as rain pounded the garden. Counting the seconds between lightening strike and thunder clap, the storm stalked … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged After the Storm, badges, biology, black out, blue, brook lamprey, brown, Brown trout, Brownies, chalk stream, children, damselfly, devon, education, end of term, families, fine-lined pea mussel, fish, green, Hannah Foley, health visitor, hollyhocks, illustration, illustrator, kids, lesser water parsnip, natural history, non-fiction, paediatrician, Percy the Park Keeper, radio devon, reports, Salmon, sports day, stick collection, storm, stream water crowfoot, summer holidays, teachers, UK, walking, water river stream, water starwort, water vole, watercress, white-clawed crayfish, wildlife
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The Canal and River Trust
If you’re looking for something to do over the summer holidays with kids I’d recommend sending off for this. Our’s has just arrived. It’s an activity book and duck-food pouch being given out free by the Canal and River Trust … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Wildlife
Tagged activities, activity book, Canal & River Trust, canals, days out, duck food pouch, families, kids, rivers, summer holidays, waterways, wildllife
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Fife
I think we caught the last day of Scottish summer yesterday. We took a trip up to Fife with two of my friends from college and enjoyed the most beautiful sunshine. We headed to Crail first, then made our way … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged Anstruther, chocolate mousse, Crail, Fife, illustration, picnic, Pittenweem, summer holidays, sunshine
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