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VE Day
On VE day most people down our street got out their deckchairs and sat outside their front doors. There was bunting strewn between houses, and we toasted each other with tea and scones. The kids rode up and down the … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends
Tagged anniversy, bicycles, Bulgarian, bunting, chatting, Covid, cream tea, family, front door, Germany, Israeli, japan, kids, london, Morris dancing, neighbours, nursing, old photographs, parade, POW, remembering, Royal Air Force, scones, street, tea, VE day, WAAF, World War 2, WW2
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Writing on walls
Despite the wet and wild weather we had a lovely half term and a great trip to London. Here is Finch and his cousin scrawling on a giant chalkboard at the South Bank Centre. When Finch saw it, he couldn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends
Tagged children, family, half term, library, library books, london, paper, parenting, Southbank Centre, St Pauls, writing, writing on furniture, writing on ornaments, writing on walls
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London bound
I love that I live in a city that switches the streetlights off at night. You’re welcome to have a pleasant evening in Exeter but, anyone out and about after the streetlights have gone off had better have a good … Continue reading
Posted in Making changes
Tagged author, Author events, books, Candy Gourlay, confidence, debut author, Discover Kelpies, exeter, Floris, Goldsmiths, Hannah Foley, independent publisher, london, Sara Grant, SCBWI, school visits, streetlights, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle, top tips, train, values, what not to say to an author
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Website Update
You’ll be pleased to know that we came back from London and, despite my concerns, the house had not fallen down in our absence. The steel girder is firmly in place and the house seems none the worse. However work … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged bio yoghurts, builders, green veg, house, illustration, illustrator, Instagram, large, london, multivitamins, new work, steel girder, update, website
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An eventful journey
Having a high old time in London this week, Little Owl and I managed to be completely oblivious to reports of the impending storm that hit Scotland on Wednesday night. Oblivious that was, until we tried to go home on … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends
Tagged cathedral, crafts, Darlington, Doncaster, Durham, edinburgh, journey, King's Cross, london, nativity, Newcastle, scotland, storm, trains, wreath, york
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Ray Bradbury
On the way home from London today I read Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Big Dreamer has been pestering me to read it for ages but I’d resisted because of the weird 70s sci-fi cover on the version we own. I … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged America, book burning, books, creativity, dad, dystopia, Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag, illustration, london, nightmares, Ray Bradbury, stag parties, Thoreau, trains, Walden
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D&AD set up
This morning I got up bright and early to travel across London to set up the D&AD show at Spitalfields Market. I thought it was highly amusing that I was travelling on the Tube carrying a cardboard tube. My comic … Continue reading
Haring along
In the late part of this afternoon, on our way home from visiting friends, Little Owl and I encountered a hare on the road. He bounded out of an open gateway in the hedgerow before turning to gallop along beside … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged afternoon, dad, edinburgh college of art, evening stroll, hare, hedgerow, illustration, london, New Blood
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Agate Hunting
This weekend we all headed down to London to stay with some very special friends of ours. The temptation with London is to dash around madly trying to see all the things going on. There was a children’s festival, an … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends
Tagged agates, Countryfile magazine, David Hockney, illuminated manuscripts, london, mexican, microbrewery, Nat Forno, scotland, writing
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The Tiger Who Came To Tea
Today Little Owl and I visited the Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green to see their Judith Kerr retrospective exhibition. For those of you who don’t know, Judith Kerr wrote and illustrated children’s classics such as The Tiger who Came … Continue reading
