We had a shrew and later a hedgehog foraging under the bird feeders yesterday and this afternoon – on a day when it never stopped raining – a wood mouse was feeding on the spilt sunflower seeds and the crumbs of fat ball. It ran off and vanished down a hole in the middle of the […]
Monthly Archives: June 2017
Shrew
8.35 a.m.: A dunnock chases a shrew across the lawn but the shrew ignores it and continues its zig-zag pattern of foraging. It disappears into a small hole for a minute then pops up again in the same place and continues its investigations, pushing its nose amongst the grass stems. It has lighter-coloured ears; it […]
A Temporary Loss of Vision
To lose sight of the direction your work is going in can be part of the creative process but to literally lose your sight in one eye, even for a short period, is alarming. I feel as if I’ve been going through a prolonged period of writer’s (and illustrator’s) block but that’s been partly because […]