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Day 31: #inktober #inktober2017 The three finalists Great British Bake Off Final
Continue readingDay 30: #inktober #inktober2017 Douglas á l’Orange doing what ducks do…
Continue readingNew member of the Shepherd menagerie…
Continue readingDay 29: #inktober #inktober2017 All the world’s a stage… for The Bard of Stratford
Continue readingDouglas á l’Orange having a wash! #impressionism #impressionist #duck
Continue readingMy growing boy is quite the handsome chap and still loves his lettuce… #duck????
Continue readingThe beauty of #autumnleaves and water… #autumn???? #reflections
Continue readingDay 28: #inktober #inktober2017 Shakespeare’s birthplace… #penandink #penandinkdrawing #amdrawing
Continue readingA day out in Shakespeare’s country…
Continue readingA day of #EmmaTherapy today in Stratford-upon-Avon involving high tea at Patisserie Valerie with Caroline’s Christmas present voucher, and mooching around bookshops and antiques centres…
Continue readingI’m sorry, couldn’t resist. This Midwinter Spanish Garden was the dinner service that we would eat from when we went for Sunday lunch with my Grannie and Grandpa. I wonder what happened to my Grannie’s hand-knitted tea cosy that fitted…
Continue readingSo it’s true. You really can’t take me to a town with bookshops, and a bookshop with Edward Ardizzone books and expect me not to buy another one to add to my collection… I’m sure Sam at Books & Ink…
Continue readingDay 27: #inktober #inktober2017 #nationalblackcatday
Continue readingBloomin’ Philip Pullman and his Jackdaw-like dæmon ways. He’s only gone and snaffled my Venice-like Oxford story away from me!
Continue reading“Scholastic sanctuary”? Is that an actual #Oxford thing? It’s what #TheImaginaryWife got given in my current WIP… @philippullman #TheBookofDust
Continue readingHey Sam, I knew I had more Edward Ardizzone books. Too be honest I’m sure I have at least two more but stupid me hasn’t categorised them by illustrator. I picked up Nurse Matilda I an adorable little bookshop in…
Continue readingDay 26: #inktober #inktober2017 My Emma is going through a bit of a rough time at the moment but she’s simply lovely and can’t be beaten. Here she climbing a tree last year…
Continue readingDay 25: #inktober #inktober2017 Anyone who’s read Mr Tumnal will know there’s a scene where Kathryn plays oboe in the woods…
Continue readingDay 24: #inktober #inktober2017 A little trip down my favourite Oxford lane where stories are born…
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