January 2017
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February 2017
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March 2017
1 March
2 March
3 March
4 March
5 March
6 March
7 March
8 March
9 March
- First alfresco lunch of the year #porkpie #ham #ploughmans #chutnies
- Ethereal light on Ely Cathedral... #stainedglass #cathedral
- Sunny spring day!
- Disco lights in the house of god today #ely #cathedral #stainedglass
- Kaleidoscopic lantern #ely #cathedral #kaleidoscope #lantern
- When #reflections in normal glass look like #stainedglass #ely #cathedral
- Who needs fancy electric luminere light shows when you have sunlight and stained glass? #ely #cathedral #stainedglass #sunlight
- Epic scale! #ely #cathedral
10 March
11 March
12 March
- Tonight @vnemma and I will be at @stornowayband's final ever farewell...
- Repost from @21stcenturyyokel) using @RepostRegramApp - A list I wrote a couple of years ago about badgers. #badgers
- Just discovered @brasstronaut at @stornowayband's Oxford gig. Any band that makes use of cornets has got to be good...
- Get Low with @stornowayband #unplugged on @the final voyage
- Fantastic end to @thefinalvoyage of @stornowayband. Feel privileged to have been at the end.
- A rare #gigselfie to show that we were their at @thefinalvoyage of @stornowayband
13 March
14 March
15 March
- It's a legal minefield... networking and finding out stuff at #lbf17
- Standing room only at the @indieauthorALLi event at ##lbf17 with @jfpennauthor and @ornaross
- Thank you to anyone who has ever bought anything from @amazon. The @IndieAuthorALLi are enjoying drinking the profits... #lbf17 #ALLi #party
- #IndieAuthors have more fun than trad publishers... #lbf17 #ALLi #party
- Mr Holloway, I presume... #poet #newsman #ALLi #lbf17
- Online friends for ages, the multi-talented Ms Bell... #ALLi #lbf17 #party
- Somewhere over the rainbow ????, #IndieAuthors's will be properly respected at #lbf17 #ALLi
- A plate of carbs to wash down the @amazon free bar... #lbf17 #ALLi #party
- London Olympia #lbf17
16 March
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18 March
19 March
20 March
21 March
22 March
23 March
24 March
25 March
26 March
- The garden huldufólk would like to wish all mothers a very happy and sunny #MothersDay! ???????? #MotheringSunday????????????
- Celendine in the Spring Garden...
- Scillas... #Spring #garden #MotheringSunday????????????
- A carpet of grape hyacinths... #MotheringSunday???????????? #Spring #garden
- Mum and Dad enjoying the #Spring garden... #MotheringSunday????????????
- Lazing about on a Sunday morning... #Arthur #cats #catsagram #catsofinstagram
- #MotheringSunday???????????? lunch for the *whole* family! #MothersDay #whataspread #lunch
- Family gathering on #MotheringSunday????????????
- Hi... #Bella #cats #catsagram #catsofinstagram #Spring
- I think there might be a quiet #protest going on about the whereabouts of dinner tonight... #cats #catsofinstagram #catsagram #dinner #felineteatime
27 March
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30 March
31 March
April 2017
1 April
2 April
- "I crunched over the shingle and swam to around 1842" #dunwich #theoldways #robertmacfarlane #eastanglia #coast
- 10 years ago this weekend this gorgeous girl "winked" at me on @match. I am the luckiest boy alive. #matchdotcom #winkaversary #10years
- Pathways
- Signs of Spring... #anemone
- Woodland floor... #primroses #Spring
- The stars of Spring on the woodland floor... #Spring #anemones
- The relaxation of felines... #Arthur #cats #catsagram #catsofinstagram
3 April
4 April
5 April
6 April
7 April
8 April
- And so we come to final quarter... #MrTumnal #MrTumnal2 #TheImaginaryWife #sequel #amwriting????
- What are these pale things beyond my book? #amreading #sunny☀️ #Spring #TheOldWays
- Tea. You don't get a photo any more British... #tea☕️ #sunny☀️ #Spring
- Emma therapy... 🙂 Building a garden for fairies #fairies #fairygarden
9 April
10 April
11 April
12 April
13 April
14 April
15 April
16 April
- Signed first edition of a new #Ladybird???? Book... #ClimateChange #hrhprinceofwales
- Happy Easter everyone! #Easter???? #simnelcake
- A slice of #Easter???? on a plate... #simnelcake????
- That time when I was a child of a principal alien... ????
- Roast lamb to celebrate #Easter????! My favourite meals of meals! ????
17 April
- The pincers of an Ant Lion preparing his trap in the sand... #springwatch #antlion @bbcspringwatch #nature #wildlife
- Back to an old favourite... #Spring #walk
- My east coast view. I can never get get tired of this... #coast #NorthSea
- Over heath... #Spring #walk
- Through wood... #Spring #walk #woodland
- Pussy willow... #detail #Spring #nature
- Pussy willow... #nature #Spring #woodland
- Finally got a chance to put the new tent up ready for our #Norfolk holiday... #camping #tent⛺️
18 April
19 April
20 April
21 April
- Another #SwallowsandAmazons cake destined for the @hulitfest Wonderland bookshop and café tomorrow. This time Bun Loaf, which is a bit like cut and come again cake... I didn't have a big enough loaf tin!
- #10Years ago today I looked into these gorgeous eyes and met my future wife. Happy anniversary @vnemma! ❤️???????? #firstdate #anniversary
- #10Years on from our first date at this very table in @pizzaexpress Bicester we've just had a scrummy #anniversary meal. And they gave us the entire night on the house! ????
22 April
23 April
- Had a brilliant time yesterday at the 3rd Annual @HULitFest yesterday. Enjoyed mingling with authors and readers, and reprising the Writing About Difference panel from last year #books #amreading #HULitFest #literaturefestivals #democratisationofreading Top photo copyright @jfpennauthor
- So @HULitFest is no different. You can't go to a literature festival and not come away with at least five books (okay, so two of them were gifts...) #books #amreading
24 April
25 April
26 April
27 April
28 April
29 April
- Well, that should keep unwanted visitors way from @vnemma's and my house...
- Walking amongst bluebell woods... #bluebells #woods #spring
- Woodland floor
- Common orchid
- Common Orchids amongst the bluebells...
- Little baby squiggle! "You looking at me?" #squirrels #babyanimals
- Baby squiggle fun! #babyanimals #squirrels
- Bells of Blue #bluebells #woods #spring
30 April
- A traditional tale of childhood adventure
- Ten years ago today, I left Blackwell...
- 10 Years On
- A lovely evening with Dr @f1nches and her lovely wife and Monkey, Wombat, Possom! ???? #friends
May 2017
1 May
2 May
3 May
4 May
5 May
6 May
- Time passes... #dandelionclock
- Bluebells at Badbury Woods...
- Kaleidoscope #blacktulip #spring
- Exploring the 12th century tithe Barnard Great Coxwell... #GreatCoxwell #tithebarn #history #barn
- Stone tiled roof... #greatcoxwelltithebarn #tithebarn #barn
- Why have I not been to Badbury Woods before? #bluebells #walks #beautiful #woods #woodland #spring
- Book exchange in a box... ????
- Inside the tree...
- Hand turned maple bowl and oak spoon. Maple from the A420 and oak from Market Harborough... #woodturning
- The White Horse from afar... #whitehorse #whitehorsehill #chalkfigures #vale
7 May
8 May
9 May
10 May
11 May
- Last time I was in this room, it was the evening, there was a random ice cream van in the quad, a bar, a dance floor, and a load of random Blackwell/Wiley ex-colleagues for a party... #DivinitySchool #Oxford @lettyandtiminou @cazar001 @maxinedeadman @keirajmckee
- Oxford architecture... #theotheruniversity #Oxford #DivinitySchool #BodleianLibrary #details
- Convocation House #Oxford #ConvocationHouse #BodleianLibrary
12 May
13 May
14 May
15 May
16 May
17 May
18 May
19 May
20 May
21 May
- Costa del Cromer #roomwithaview #camping #whoneedsthemediterranean
- I can't help thinking that the presence of this wild sedum is inappropriate for the book I'm currently #amreading... #redweed
- Fun at the seaside!
- Cockles at Cromer
- When in Cromer it would be rude not to eat crab... #Cromer #cromercrabs
- Too hot! Retreated to the shade of a tree... #amreading #keepingonkeepingon #alanbennett #roomwithaview #thisisthelife
22 May
- Birthday haul! ???? Thank you everyone for the presents, cards, and good wishes!
- Birthday trip to see the seals at #BlakeneyPoint with @vnemma
- #textures #mud #shipwreck #blakeneypoint
- Seal watching trip
- Sea thrift #blakeneypoint
- Country business... #sheep #shepherds #farming #northnorfolk
- Thank you everyone for all the lovely birthday messages! ???? #birthdaydrink #adnams #ghostship
- #Sunset???? over my birthday...
- Birthday #sunset???? #selfie ????
23 May
24 May
- The perfect bliss of holidays. Isolated from everything that might be happening in the world, siting and reading in shorts in a field in the evening sun, when it's gone 8 o'clock... #nofilter
- When I last visited #Felbrigg 18 years ago at the very end of the last century it was to slash and burn the dreaded #RhododendronPonticum (top left) into the grassy Meadow it is today (bottom). Sign of burning to the old beech tree (top right) was just collateral damage... #nationaltrust #conservation #workingholidays #volunteering
- ❤️ Felbrigg Hall. ❤️ cream teas.
25 May
26 May
- Inspired to write about trees... #poetry #trees #Felbrigg #thelionsmouth
- Ghosts in the Woods (or coming back to somewhere 30 years later) #Felbrigg #poetry #woods #thelionsmouth
- Back in #TheLionsMouth: one of my most favourite places in the whole world #peace #serenity #woods #woodland #nature #thelionsmouth #Felbrigg
- #Textures of #beach and #woodland
- Tea ????
27 May
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31 May
June 2017
1 June
2 June
3 June
4 June
5 June
6 June
7 June
8 June
9 June
10 June
11 June
- ~Alan Bennett, Keeping On Keeping On
- Kettle BBQs are currently 25 quid at @lidluk... #barbeques #alfrescodining
- Asleep in the hayloft... (aka rabbit hutch) ???? ????
- William relaxing on a sunny Sunday afternoon... #cats #catstagram #catsofinstagram
- Poppies in the garden...
- Love-in-the-Mist is prehistoric in its beauty...
12 June
13 June
14 June
- Sketching out cover ideas for #MrTumnal2: #TheImaginaryWife... But can I pull off something so "people" dominated?
- @vnemma and I recently went camping. You've seen the pictures. How times have changed! This was me, maybe on my first #camping⛺️ trip...
- And just when I think I might be getting okay at this people drawing thing I fall back on crapness... #characterstudies #coverillustration #MrTumnal2 #TheImaginaryWife #amdrawing #sketching #people
15 June
16 June
17 June
18 June
- Foraging for summer fruits and flowers... #elderflower #cordial #cherries???? #parkcherries #foraging #foodforfree
- It's 31 degrees in the shade and 29 on the house! #Toohot to do anything other than read... #amreading #summer
- Moved on from #amreading to #amwriting as #TheNovel makes slow and stilted progress. Need to get back on the routine...
- Opium poppy
- Love my White House Farm poppies... #opiumpoppy
- Passion flower
- Passion flower doing blooming marvellous! #passionflower
- Bunnies ???? having a little cool off in the house this morning. "What's this funny red grass?" #bunnies
19 June
- Wilting... #work #toohot #tryingtoconcentrate
- Today's #amwriting spot sees me retreating to the shade and the littlest of breezes... #still30degrees #toohot
- I can cook tonight's meal from outside the back door, cant I? #toohot #slavingoverahotstove
- The upside to a bast**d #toohot Day. Sat in the garden #amwriting at 9.30 with that sky! #nofilter
20 June
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30 June
- Potatoes from @millakontkanen's allotment and peas from @vnemma are the accompaniment to tonight's fish supper...
- I think I know which of my friends are going to squee over the new temporary resident of Bicester Zoo and Rescue Centre for Small Maminals...
July 2017
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15 July
- It's not everyday that you get to have a pre-concert cup of tea from a mug emblazoned with the logo that you designed. ????????
- So much 40th Anniversary merchandise for sale tonight!
- 40th Anniversary massed band concert with Abingdon Concert Band and Abbey Brass tonight! ????????
- Playing my flute... ????????????
16 July
17 July
- Post-work #amwriting, fuelled by nuts and sherry and summer sunshine... #cashews #pistachios #sherry #mrtumnal2 #thenovel #theotherjob
- #nofilter The moments before...
- Red sky at night, Shepherd's delight. It's twenty to ten and I'm still sitting outside in shorts and I'm #amwriting #nofilter #sunset
18 July
19 July
20 July
21 July
22 July
23 July
24 July
25 July
- So who wants to come to a @woodlandtrust #TreeParty? How about it @vnemma, @lettyandtiminou, @laurapicklechop ?
- When you have a productive day at #gearing up for #superwednesday #sitelaunch and then turn two short lines of notes into two and a half pages of novel when you get home... #amwriting
- Repost from @nationalautisticsociety using @RepostRegramApp - Yesterday we launched the next part of our Too Much Information campaign - the National Autistic Society’s Autism Hour. 79% of autistic people told us they feel socially isolated. We want to change that. We've teamed up with shopping centre owner intu to create the UK’s first week-long event, launching 2 October, where shops and services spend 60 minutes giving autistic people a break from too much information. Visit our website to find out more. #AutismHour #AutismTMI
- Alien in his thistle spaceship...
- Busy as a bee... #teasil ????
- Buddleia
- Stipa gigantea in the evening sun...
- The attraction of echinops to insects...
26 July
27 July
28 July
29 July
30 July
- Little #duck???? is growing up fast...
- I remember "finding" #NorthernLights in a bookshop in Winchester before it was huge and falling in love with the cover and not looking back. With #TheBookofDust coming out in October it's time for a reread... #books???? #alethiometer #philippullman
- What can imaginary friends teach us?
- Entrapped by story
31 July
August 2017
1 August
2 August
3 August
4 August
5 August
6 August
7 August
8 August
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15 August
16 August
- Colourful street art in Bath... #umbrellas
- It's good to talk... to flowers ????
- Must come to Bath again for a proper nose around...
- Flowers in the garden... #summer
- When your boss leaves you to catch a train you can't catch and gets home before you've left.. revenge is a dish best WhatsApped of chocolatey cakey goodness! #yum #omnomnom #brownie
- Looking all growed up! #duck????
17 August
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30 August
31 August
- Happy 6th Birthday ???? to Lily! ????????#party
- Ever been to a #Shopkins #party? No? Me neither until today... Happy Birthday Lily! ???? ????????
- Not my best portrait I've ever done but I was fortunate enough to get some "nice and quiet time" (her words not mine) with my neice and use of her new art set. Just wish she stayed still for s bit longer... #HappyBirthdayLily
- "those enemies of his mother's were not in the world out there, but in her mind" @philippullman #SubtleKnife #HisDarkMaterials
September 2017
1 September
2 September
3 September
4 September
5 September
6 September
7 September
8 September
- A year to the day between our trips to Holycombe Camping. How out tents have changed...
- That's what a good thunderstorm does to a barometer...
- Before and after... end of #camping⛺️ trip in Whichford...
- You can't go on a brewery tour and not sample the merchandise... #beer #brewery #hooky #hooknortonbrewery
9 September
- How is @davidjalmond's #Skellig 15 years old already? #books #modernclassic #DavidAlmond @colesbooksbicester
- Mincing my own... #butchery #spagbol
- Sunset and storm clouds #nofilter
- Surely this man's appendage would get in the way of the mouthpiece and head joint? #moustache #flute #flautist #lastnightoftheproms
- Part-quest, part-treasure hunt that moves between the worlds
10 September
11 September
12 September
13 September
14 September
15 September
- I'm sorry, but mid-September is too early in anyone's book to be playing Christmas music!
- Learnt a new word at @abingdonconcertband last night – tenderly – going to have use one this in one of novels... #MrTumnal #musicinbooks #authorsofinstagram
- I stupidly let my afternoon cup of tea at work get cold, undrunk ???? so I'm making up for it now in my favourite mug... #tea #bestdrunkhot
- And... Friday! Le weekend starts here... ???????? #hornblower #friyay @abingdonconcertband @lettyandtiminou
- Growing up with Facebook
16 September
- It's important to prepare when you've got good friends coming to visit tomorrow...
- Dark chocolate and rum truffles from the #GBBO book I won at @emmaloupo's charity bake sale last year. Should keep the visitors happy, @lettyandtiminou ????
- I swore I wouldn't buy anymore books in September! But then I saw this bargain of a boxset of 16 Michael Morpurgo books for a fiver in the charity shop... #books #bookaddict #bookaholic #bookaholicsannonymous #booksofinstagram #ihaveaproblem
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