The Tiree Pages this year’s CalMac adventure to the island of Tiree The countdown to this year’s Big Summer Holiday has been a long one. As soon as we left Islay last summer, the discussions began about which Hebridean island to visit next, how big the ferry would be, would we get to eat breakfast […]
Treasures this one is for the collectors We pick up treasures, me and the kids. We stuff them in our pockets (to be found days or seasons later), or carry them in soft palms, flipping them over and over. “Can you carry this for me, mum?” the kids say, and I almost always do (except
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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June 2025 Pages thunderstorm hangovers, honeysuckle, general pottering. I got the ick a bit in June. The final push through to the end of term was tiring – navigating some tricky things; the emotions of firsts and lasts – and with a backdrop of extremely grim on the news. That extraordinary thunderstorm on the night
May: intoxicating and slightly heavy May is a complicated month for me, with birthdays and anniversaries to navigate I wear a ring with a tiny emerald – the May birthstone – on my finger. It represents all my May loves. My mum and dad were both born in May; my Gran, too, and my husband
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April: Eyes to the Sky April feels like a series of nice surprises. Here’s my journal and sketchbook pages. Eyes to the sky, for me, in April. Will I recognise them? Of course I will! The first glimpse of that swirling, whirling flight, interweaving, drawing tiny threads of vapour trails across the sky. The swallows are coming back! I saw my first swallow of 2025
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A Kiss From March Pale yellow sunshine, amorous frogs, and a delightful three-year-old Is this anything finer in the whole year than the first sunshine of March? It is pale yellow, sumptious, luxurious. It smiles on you and warms your insides. After a long winter of hunching and huddling, March sunshine allows you to open
February 25 Journal: Puddles and Snowdrops February is all green and brown and white, moss, flood, lichen and snowdrop Where January was a goddess, flexing her power to delight and deprive, February was just a lot of damp. A really February-ish February. We dealt with round two of chicken pox for little Trix. She’s normally
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A Love Letter To Janaury I’m in love with glorious January! PART ONE Tuesday 21st January 2025 I love January! This has never happened before. January is the long slog, yeah? The Blue Monday, bleak, broken resolutions, everyone has flu month. Usually, I am in rough compliance with these societal tropes about January. But this
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November to Hogmanay Finishing up 2024 with a roundup of sketchbook pages from the final two months of the year. I was all set for my usual monthly journal post at the end of November, and then I got the flu, or something flu-ish, on the 29th. A long fever followed by the most vicious
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