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Family and cat lover.Avid reader,appreciates fine art,travel ,history ,gardens and films.
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My pencil sketch for Eurasian Kestrel in flight (hovering) based solely on my own references. This will be completed in coloured pencil. #traditionalart #art #bird #birds #drawing #Eurasian #kestrel 🪶

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Happy solstice. Still dark here in Devon although the moon has set. From now onwards turning towards the light.😊🌞 Cat’s heaven.😻

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning.😊 Bright and sunny and quite mild. Xmas is coming so tree up,cake with marzipan(home made) and swag in kitchen. Have a good day.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning 😊 Off yesterday in the mist and drizzle to Exeter. Bratwurst and Gluewein in the Xmas market and then the soaring magnificence of the fan vaulting in Exeter cathedral;where they now have a splendid new tea room and shop in the cloisters.Lots of pale polished oak and ancient stone.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

On our visit to Totnes yesterday We visited the Elizabethan museum. Housed in a 15 th century building, It featured Tudor labour making Equipment. Firstly,Ye olde washing machine and then ye pumpe,a cauldron for boiling water and finally a drying rack. Happy days in merrie England.🤣

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Good Morning. Went to Totnes yesterday for the Xmas market. My favourite town in south Devon.Full of medieval buildings and interesting individual shops. A long high st rises gradually to the Norman Motte and Bailey castle.As dusk fell,lamps and fairy lights lit up a happy,convivial scene.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning, Calm and grey after a tumultuous weekend. Going to the Xmas market at Totnes today.😊 Despite the destruction in the garden it’s nice to see clematis Cirrhosa in flower. If it’s still flowering at Xmas I may use some in a table decoration. Have a good day everyone.😊

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

A very wild and windy day following an equally stormy night.We’ve got a huge ash tree down and we haven’t even finished clearing up the oak that collapsed a few weeks ago. Still,looking on the bright side won’t be short of logs.🥲😬😂 This is the fallen red oak.

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Good morning. Rather gloomy but mild. Time to lighten up a bit. I bought my ‘allium’light a few years ago as a Xmas decoration and it’s stayed up ever since.🤣 Amazing longevity.I think you can buy them from Sarah Raven now. Happy Advent.😊

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

@robedmunds.bsky.social He’s really captured him there. The ruthlessness,the asceticism.

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

@robedmunds.bsky.social Is this the St Simeon known as Stylites?

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

@robedmunds.bsky.social Thanks for the follow. Your book sounds really interesting.I will look out for it.😊

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Good Morning.Cold and grey so time for some winter colour. Shop bought flowers can be quite expensive but will last for about ten days with care.😊

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning,sunny and dry so far. With the world in such a mess we can escape into a good book. I’ve just re read the exuberant Still Life by Sarah Winman. It’s an ode to love,art and poetry,with witty dialogue and interestingcharacters,not least the city of Florence and Claude. The parrot😊

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning. Calm and bright after the storm. Trifle for pudding last night.😊 Sponge fingers liberally doused in Sherry or raspberry liquer. Custard Cream or half cream and mascarpone. Crystallised violets for texture. Only add violets when ready to serve as they start to melt. Simple/delicious .

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

Good afternoon. After a wild night in Devon with No electricity and a howling gale,it’s finally stopped raining. Much warmer though. To celebrate,a Victoria Sponge. Felicity Cloakes recipe,sandwiched with her lovely buttercream (you add double cream to it)and jam.

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

'Albino Schlumbergera.' This is an oil painting on paper that is basically complete. It features (from left to right) White Flamenco, Snow Angel and Tenshi No Mai Tokai (all drawn then painted from life). #art #artist #oil #painting #botanical #christmascacti #holidaycacti #schlumbergera

submitted 116 days ago • 1 comment

Good morning,and a very wet one indeed. Everything in the garden a soggy mess but a few flowers always brightens things up. Roses and tulips seem an odd mix somehow but at £3 a bunch from the Co-Op seem like a good idea.😊

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

Two hoopoes, I love these striking birds. Sierra Morena, Spain, 2024. @ianparsons.bsky.social #Hoopoes #birds #avian #photography #fotografia #Sierra #Morena #Spain #Espana

submitted 117 days ago • 2 comments

Emily the Carpathian lynx with her two kittens. Dartmoor Zoo, 20.11.2024. #fotografia #photography #DartmoorZoo #Carpathian #lynx #Emily #lynx #sunshine

submitted 117 days ago • 1 comment