The Scribble

  • Buttercup

    buttercup instaCommon they may be, but no less beautiful for it, Meadow Buttercup (Ranunculus Acris) is the meadows' supermodel, tossing their pretty blonde heads in the breeze atop willowy stems. According to that modern font of knowledge that is <...
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  • Common Vetch

    vetch blogNot unlike my own rampaging toddler, Common Vetch marauds through the meadow clambering over this and that, a little bit of a thug but also - I think! - quite beautiful. It's half-term this week and I am feeling a little in limbo, but trying hard to heed these words...
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  • Celandine

    celandine blog

    Celandine, the little sun king, has all but disappeared from the damp corners of the meadow where I found him in abundance a couple of weeks ago. His gaudier cousin the buttercups have taken over in the time since I scribbled him, a haze of golden ye...
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  • Bugle

    bugle clean scan blog

    Feeling a bit overwhelmed by everything this morning, I sent myself out into the meadow in search of a new specimen for scribbling before sitting down at my desk. I  found this, with its unusual spires of pretty lilac flowers on dark pu...
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  • Violets

    violet blog aLittle violets weave their way through grass and primroses in the lower meadow by our front gate, spreading themselves about quite happily, popping up in cracks in our paths and walls in beautifully unexpected ways. Once upon a time, when life was slightly mor...
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