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Flitting
Although it has been snowing here this week there are small green buds everywhere I look and it is April at last. For the beginning of April I pick up my seasonal reading again and head off to Somerset with … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Making changes, Wildlife
Tagged agricultural workers, blackbirds, blue tits, chiffchaffs, comma butterflies, domestic workers, field voles, Flitting Day, great tits, house martins, illustration, kestrels, Lady Day, Mark, Michaelmas, moving house, orange-tip butterflies, rabbits, robins, Somerset, Stephen Moss, steve roud, swallows, the english year, tied accommodation, whimbrels, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds, wood pigeons, wood sandpipers
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March
It is the beginning of a new month so I turn to my seasonal reading again. In his book The English Year, Steve Roudβs chapter on March is preoccupied with the weather. March βcomes in like a lion and out … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged ash buds, birds, borrowed days, dunk, hares, illustration, light, mad march hares, march, migration, migratory restlessness, Mothering Sunday, spring, St Chad's Day, St David's Day, St Patrick's Day, St Winneral's Day, Stephen Moss, steve roud, sunrise, swallows, the english year, vernal equinox, warmth, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds, winter, zugunruhe
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Rituals and results
I love the rituals of warm summer evenings. In the garden I visit all my little plants with the watering can, taking my time to congratulate myself on a new leaf or occasionally console myself over a loss. Green shoots … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged beetroot, chard, degree show, eca, edinburgh college of art, germination, green shoots, Jewellery, lamb, monty, Product Design, results, spinach, summer evenings, swallows, watering
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Picture Hooks conference
Today I have been at the Picture Hooks conference here in Edinburgh all about the world of children’s book publishing. We’ve heard from illustrators, writers, publishers and agents. It’s been a lot to take in but invaluable. The highlight for … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged children's books, conference, Jonny Gibbs, picture hooks, publishing, swallows
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1 year old
My blog is one-year old today. It’s hard to believe all the things that have happened in the last year. It’s lovely for me that it has all felt very natural: a slow unfolding. There’s still so much to learn … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged 1 year, anniversary, birthday, blog, illustration, swallows
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Swallows
Hard frosts continue to await us in the mornings. At the weekend we even awoke to aΒ smattering of snow. My pea seedlings paw at the windows with their curling tendrils but I daren’t put them out yet. The broad beans … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged celandines, forget-me-nots, illustration, peas, seasons, seedlings, swallows
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Springing into blogging
The swallows arrived yesterday on the farm so now seems a good time to make the jump and start blogging. Last year we left our old lives behind and headed for the hills. We are Hannah Foley (aka Owl), my … Continue reading
