October Sketchbook & Journal A month in which the absolutely ordinary, everyday, seemed even more precious than usual. So, October was wet. It started off misty, rainy and weirdly warm. There’s been a couple of hard frosts, but the wet has remained. Enormous puddles (the children are delighted!), brown rivers, stormy weather. Regardless of the …
September Sketchbook & Journal from heatwave to pink Harvest Moon, dreamless nights, and the pages from my lovely day out sketching at Glentress I’m deeply distrustful of any September that dares to start with a heatwave. Wtf. September marks the much-anticipated reunion with the knitwear drawer, the dusting off of the boots, perhaps even the …
Summer 2023 Sketchbook & Journal – a little more July and August The very very end of August and I think I can feel the tip toward Autumn happening. Maybe it is more of a slip than a tip. Or a drift. I thought chilly thoughts getting out of bed this morning. There was condensation …
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Budle Bay Holiday Pages Here are my sketchbook pages from our week at the seaside We spent one gloriously sandy week in Northumberland in July. Some things about it: – you don’t need to travel very far to get that holiday feeling – breakfast on the beach is the best way to start a day …
June 2023 Sketchbook & Journal June is all about the sky. It started with a full moon. At times it has been full of thunder, other times as blue as can be. June has the most light. It peaked at the solstice on the 21st; and now slowly the days are shortening. There’s no heavy …
May 2023 Sketchbook & Journal Here’s my notes on nature and family life in May… This is it guys, summer is coming, swooping in with the swallows. Piglet is due home from nursery any minute and he wants to get the paddling pool out. The sun has SHOWN UP for the past week. We are …
April 2023 Sketchbook & Journal Here’s my notes on nature and family life in April… April is all green and yellow. Jackets of yellow gorse on the hillsides, big nodding yellow daffodils, vergefuls of dandelions and buttercups and those tall yellow daisies that I don’t know the name of. New leaves, green everywhere. Grass, moss, …
March 2023 Sketchbook & Journal The baby is one! March has been dominated by the count-down to the baby’s first birthday. I’m a sentimental human being. My mind has been full of “this time last year” thoughts, remembering being full-up of baby (a breech baby, kicking my lungs), the bittersweetness of final days out just …
February 2023 Sketchbook & Journal Here’s my sketchbook pages and notes from the (thankfully) shortest month of the year. I tend to think of February as a bit of a non-month, really. A funny little insert month between proper winter and proper spring. But it is only actually two days shorter than other months, so …
January 2023 Sketchbook & Journal Thank you for starting off 2023 with me! Here’s my sketchbook pages and notes from the first month of the year. On Hogmanay, I commented to Ross that if Trix knew all she was expected to achieve this coming year, she might be a little overwhelmed. Crawling, teeth, talking, walking, …
