June 2026 Pages life and death in our back garden June has been a tale of two parts for me: before the heatwave and after the heatwave. Here are my June sketchbook pages: 1 If you added up all the 10 minutes here and 5 minutes there, you’d discover that I spend a decent chunk […]
Dawn Chorus (I blame the great tit) a short story by Hannah Longmuir We’ve been in this house seven springs, now. And in seven springs I have intended to, and failed to, slip out into the woods, in May, while the rest of the household sleeps, to hear the dawn chorus in full voice. Small
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April & May 2026 Pages a lump, a dump even, of pages from the past two months And that’s spring run her showery, overall chilly, spectacularly blossomy, frilly-tuliped course. Wasn’t she a goddess? It was a bit more woolly hats and thermos-clutching than some springs, but the flowers seemed to crack on with their blooming
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The Chaffinch & the Blossom-Cloud a short story by Hannah Longmuir On Tuesday, I was walking inside a cloud when I was scolded by a chaffinch. The cloud was formed of blossom, where the blackthorn grows on both sides of the river path, and only in April can you walk into the iridescent blossom-fog to
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March 2026 Pages spring, of sorts, gathers pace in my sketchbook March is a bit of a funny creature, really. I always build March up in my head as a glorious sweet-sun month of frolicking in daffodils, whereas in fact the wind whips and sometimes there’s hail. I quite enjoy the merging of winter and
Leaving Winter Behind – January and February Pages 2026 the remaining unshared pages from my January and February sketchbook We’re rapidly accelerating away from winter, so I’d better share the unshared pages from my sketchbook before it feels uncouth to remind us of bare branches and cold earth. Soon we will be BASKING in green
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Snowdrop Pages 2026 my snowdrop delight does not seem to be slowing down – here are my sketchbook pages from snowdrop season this year I feel like everything there is to be said about snowdrops has been said – the resilience! The hopefulness! The relief of renewal after a long, dark winter! So I shan’t
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Midwinter Pages from advent through to my birthday in the middle of January January is gathering pace, is she not? We’re over half-way; I’m enjoying the cold, blank energy. (Clean) slate grey skies, deep lungfuls of cold air, freezing drizzle clogging up my eyelashes. I think that with each passing year I am becoming a
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The November Pages: drawing trees and owls things I saw, drew and thought about this month My November sketchbook pages are dominated by sketches of trees, Drygrange trees. And birds. Trees and birds, my two favourite subjects. Things change fast in November – at the start it is sunshine through glowy-orange leaves, by the end
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A Love Affair with Drygrange (Lauren’s Photos) I’m in a relationship with woods and moss and dappled sunlight I fell in love with Drygrange the first time I visited. It was a sunny day in May. We had just started house-hunting – in fact, this was the first (and only) house we viewed. We were
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