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Sunbathing
What a June it is turning out to be! We went to a local pub for lunch with some friends for Father’s Day. Inevitably the children could only sit at the table for limited length of time so we headed … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, beer garden, birds, children, community nursing, district nursing, father's day, frog, gardening, golden mornings, grasses, june, manure pile, nature, parenting, pub, pub lunch, rain, river, rounds, slow worm, slow worms, sunbathing, sunshine, visits, water meadow, wildlife
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Hedgehog news!
This evening thunder rumbles so close overhead that we can feel the vibrations through the floor, and lightening illuminates the inside of our house like someone taking a photograph. Thick clouds cover the sky and rain pours down. Our garden … Continue reading
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Tagged 30 Days Wild, bench, Biff, Chip, city garden, family garden, flower bed, garden, gardening, gardening for wildlife, gardening with kids, hedgehog, Jane, Kipper, learning to read, lightening, Oxford Reading Tree, parenting, Pat the Dog, Peter, phonics, pond, rain, reading aloud, sleeping, small garden, snoring, sounding out, storm, sunshine, thunder, urban garden, Wilder Future, wildlife
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Daffodil meadows
The allotment is a Brexit-free zone. On Saturday, one of the volunteer coordinators was fiercely enforcing it. As I planted my potatoes, I could hear her shout periodically, βI can hear you. None of that Brexit stuff round here please!β … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Growing things, Wildlife
Tagged allotment, brexit, butterflies, daffodils, meadows, potatoes, spring, sunshine, woodls, woodpecker
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October flowers (and nuts)
The weather was glorious at the weekend so we took the chance to get out on some lovely walks. We collected acorns, raced autumn leaves down a brook, crunched our way over beech husks, spotted a jay, and found a … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged acorns, autumn, beech, beech husks, beech mast, beech nuts, holiday, illustration, illustrator, leaves, Margaret Erskine Wilson, october, pale tussock caterpillar, Post Office queue, Private Frazer, sunshine, There was an old lady who swallowed a fly, Wildflowers of Britain Month by Month
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Yellow doors
Little Owl has been adamant that we should paint our front door sunshine yellow. I think itβs a lovely idea and as soon as we get chance we will do just that. As I was trying to open the front … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged blue, bones, children, education, front door, illustration, keys, muscles, paint, peach, pink, sunshine, white, yellow
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Blackbird
The days have been long and hot here. I have been sitting Wren in the garden in her baby bouncer in the shade of the Japanese maple. She usually falls fast asleep, the dappled light dancing over her flickering eyelids, … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged alley, baby, blackbird, cats, children, city, digital, dog, football, garden, hot, houses, illustration, Japanese maple, neighbours, painterly, park, picture books, pigeons, shade, sleeping, sunshine, telegraph pole, town, tree, wren
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Pebbles
Little Owl’s collection of pebbles from the beach.
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends
Tagged beach, collecting, peebles, precious things, sunshine
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Weevil
One of the ironies of this magnificent country Scotland is that it is mostly cold and windy, then when the sun shines the midgies come out. If you haven’t heard of these nasty biting insects I can’t convey in words … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Illustration
Tagged black vine weevils, gardening, illustration, midgies, peas, pests, pot plants, scottish weather, sunshine
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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
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Tagged Anstruther, chocolate mousse, Crail, Fife, illustration, picnic, Pittenweem, summer holidays, sunshine
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