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 […]
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
The September Pages (2025) things I saw, drew and thought about this month Anyone who has been reading my journal posts, or who knows me in real life, knows that I am a nerd for autumn. It does something invigorating to me, sets my senses to alert, my fluffy fox ears point up and I
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The Best Summer of my Life (A Distant Memory) the rest of my pages & notes from the summer. It feels so long ago already! The term-time routine takes over so quickly. This summer it all came together for us: the age & stage the kids are at (they were good friends! and they are
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The Islay Trip (summer holidays part 2) pages & notes from our wonderful family holiday to the island of Islay this summer I swear that, at one point in the past, my ancestors were island people, boat people, people of wind and salt and far off horizons. I seem to reach peak-peace on the top
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Summer Holidays Part 1: Pottering Around Drygrange pages & notes from the first few weeks of the school summer holidays here in the Scottish Borders In my head, the summer holidays (8 whole weeks!) are split into three sections – at home before the trips, the trips, then at home after the trips. Here’s my
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The Flycatcher & the Honeysuckle how a mystery little bird filled my patio with joy Sometime in June I noticed a little bird – about the size of a robin – that we don’t normally see in the garden. Mostly it sat on the fence, sometimes the trellis. Pale tummy, grey head and back, darker
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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
August 2024: Full Hearts and Calendar Launch! It’s all go in my studio and my life… So, the last few weeks of the summer break turned out really lovely. The kids were each other’s best friend. Stablisers came off a bike with GREAT EXCITEMENT and my poor nervous system took a beating watching the boy
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July 2024 Part 2: Soggy Summer It just keeps on raining. I’ve been struggling a little with the expectation of the summer not quite matching the reality. I was so excited to have Piglet home all summerlong. I was excited for how BLISSFUL it would be to not have to stick to the school-day schedule and
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