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Nature, cooking, music, being creative and living ecologically. Inquisitive, unconventional, quite spiritual, happy in my quiet corner.
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This Great tit (probably the mate of the one that passed 😢), comes to this same spot outside my window to eat a sunflower seed he’s picked up from the feeder ☺️, pecking away at it.
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A variety of lesser celandine raising its face to the sun and a great tit investigating the new nest box, must be nearly Spring!
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#Spring
February 16, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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February 16, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Uber quick sketches of medieval manuscript. I love the stork gulping a frog. Will prob paint and gold leaf some, like this one I did
February 16, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Pouring down now out there so I’m having a ridiculous amount of fun sketching this little grumpy bat from the Aberdeen Bestiary. Look at that grumpy humanoid face! 😂. Love these expressive little medieval critters. Apparently back then bats were classified as birds! (But it still denoted ambiguity.)
February 16, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Sunshine and showers here today, it’s beautiful and very fresh
February 16, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Just planted up a little Spring display near the stream and I’m looking forward to them all flowering. More for the bees, too! 🌸🌷🪻
February 16, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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I think we can safely say that the Ravens are breeding 😁 I was just sat quietly with them when they started grooming and then they did this. A bit of a long video and I cut off the bit where they mated as I wasn’t sure about
February 16, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Pheasant enjoying a nice sunbathe next to the garden amidst the snowdrops
February 16, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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Ending Sunday with...

• Siegfried Sassoon •
February 15, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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My piece 'The Three Graces' is currently being exhibited as part of the Open 26 at The Old Lock Up Gallery (Cromford.)
February 15, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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Cornwall Butterfly Conservation volunteers had a rather sodden time of it on Bodmin Moor today. We were planting Common Dog Violets to increase the breeding habitat along a new corridor connecting two colonies of Pearl-bordered Fritillaries. At least they've had a good watering in!
February 15, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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Beautiful native Daffodils for #wildflowerhour - today in Devon and last weekend in Cornwall. Also some other lovely signs of Spring 🙌
February 15, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Love reading about Mozart’s relationship with his mother and the playfulness and expressive language that they both seem to share ☺️. (I really enjoy reading autobiographies and biographies in general about peoples’ lives incidentally- truth is often more interesting than any fiction!).
February 15, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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Great to see Red Squirrel at Loch Leven, wish we had them down South ,instead of the invasive Grey Squirrel .
February 15, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Think I saw 2 woodcocks on my walk, but can’t be sure as they disappeared further into a hedge very quickly. 🐦
February 15, 2026 at 5:38 PM
I guess a broader point is that Mozart is so accessible. I’m thinking about how many kids could be enticed into the world of classical music if teachers would introduce him/it in the right way. (Ok maybe not the swearing 😁). Who may ordinarily feel class-alienated from the genre. He was a visionary.
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Last night’s reading. I didn’t sleep much. #Mozart
February 15, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Listening to this cheery, ebullient concerto was bliss as I walked in the countryside. It really evokes Mozart’s lively, playful, optimistic side I feel. I read he wrote it for his childhood friend Leutgeb in 4 different colours of ink poss as a tease to confuse him 😁 youtu.be/gEec70f6NCM
Mozart - Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat major, K. 495, III. Rondo Allegro vivace
YouTube video by UltimateMozart
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February 15, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Look who’s in his exact same spot again on the same branch in the same place 🤭
February 15, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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This is the beautiful Buzzard that watches me feed the Ravens. It is a stunner with lovely chestnut cheeks! Today, in the gloom, I thought it was a Raven flying in as it flew in low and into a tree close by.
February 15, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Today’s walk, breathtaking 🥰
February 15, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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"All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again."
~ James M. Barrie

Springtime (1889)
🎨 Alfred Sisley
February 15, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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Sunday plans:
🖼️ Jill Barklem
February 15, 2026 at 6:04 AM
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Tadpoles in the flooded trackways on Goonhilly Downs this afternoon (likely laid as spawn back in November).
February 14, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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A first for me, exactly one year ago today.

A roman silver Siliqua.

Arcadius, Mint of Milan.
AD 393-4

And 7 days later, I found a second, exactly the same 🤷🏻‍♂️

(I rarely clean a coin, but took a chance on it, as it was completely illegible when found)
February 15, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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Last night’s reading. I didn’t sleep much. #Mozart
February 15, 2026 at 9:08 AM