Better late than never

I have pretty much resigned myself to the fact that I am going to be a rather sporadic blog writer, so many thanks in advance to anyone who is still reading
I noticed that I need to catch up with posting some photos that I have mentioned in previous posts, so here goes.
First of [...]

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Of course I took lots of close-ups

But sea air and scrambling around has taken its toll on me.  I managed to sort out what is probably my favourite shot of the day though

What do you think?

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No close-ups please!

Well, I’m not quite ready to show you any pictures of what I have been doing, but I have been doing.  One thing which is almost finished I’m not going to show you as it’s part of a swap and the other piece I’ve been working on definitely needs more work.
Things have definitely been flowing [...]

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Inspiration: Feathers

Hubby and I made the most of a lovely sunny day last weekend to visit a local bird sanctuary.  Viewers of Springwatch might remember Pensthorpe.
White

More white.

And something a bit more colourful

The top two are of course swans and the last one is a bald ibis, a bird that at first glance appears rather drab. Then [...]

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Wildlife

We have two cats who like to go out hunting.  We live on the edge of a market town so there is plenty of varied territory for them to explore.  Apart from the normal fare of birds and small furry mammals they are also very fond of playing with frogs.  They rarely seem to hurt [...]

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Tast Week Two

Well, only a day late so I’m fairly happy. Here is my buttonhole sampler:

I had problems getting motivated with this one, but then I decided to let myself doodle and ended up with the flowers and everything else went fine from there. There are a few mistakes here and there but overall I’m [...]

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Inspiration: Foxgloves

Time for a couple more photos. Kerrie Slade and I seem to be taking photos of the same subjects at the same time at the moment. I took these a couple of days ago, before it started raining.

And to match Kerrie even closer, here’s another foxglove with a very busy bumblebee

I have to [...]

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Woodland Wanderings

On Friday my brother and I decided to run away from the chaos that is my kitchen refit and go for a short walk in the local bluebell woods.

The weather was perfect and because we went on the Friday there were only a few people around.

We found a wonderful little dell, full of wild garlic [...]

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Inspiration

A little later than promised, here is the source photo for the piece I showed you here

I took this picture of one of the groynes at Great Yarmouth near the harbour, I just loved the colours in the wood. I have some more pictures from that day which I might do something with later [...]

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How did this journey begin? Pt.1

So, what started me on my creative journey?
A few years ago (2002) I got very sick with some random nasty virus that completely flattened me (probably something related to glandular fever/mono but blood tests didn’t show what). During my slow recovery two things kept me going. The first was that shortly before [...]

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