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Snow Fennec

This exceptionally shy creature is rumoured to live in the depths of Somerset woodlands – and may have been spotted in times immemorial, linking it closely to the legend of Arthur and his knight. Local lore even implies that Lancelot wooed Guinevere by taming a very […]

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Blue Fox

The ruffled Robin Hooded Fox

I got a liiiiiiittle bit obsessed with collecting leaves last autumn… The thing is, they’re really pretty when you start paying attention, a bit like snowflakes, except you can’t see snowflakes with the naked eye and they’re not in colour, right? Bo-ring! Anyway, it all […]

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Barbapapa family – meet the barbagardons

I’ve always loved Barbapapa – and my kids have taken the bait big time – which is great, as it’s very imaginative and also it’s in FRENCH, which is forcing these blighty bilingual little buggers to practice la langue de mon pays. This was born […]

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Round the elderflower tree

And when the elderflower buds end their delicious bloom, these gorgeous pods appear… It made me think of simple pleasures, like dancing round a tree to celebrate everything that is good about summer… This is again working on a very small scale, with each create […]

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Elderflower Elfie

This one was definitely a tricky one as had to work very fast – the delicate and tiny (think grain of rice tiny!) flowers start wilting as soon as picked up from the tree, and had to be detached one by one with very thin […]

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Meet the Spooners – Pavia de Hantesin

Meet the Spooners – Pavia de Hantesin

In the Spooners series, let me introduce you to someone a little complicated – but rewarding in the end. There is a little bit of controversy here about the spelling of Pavia’s surname. Is she a Dutch aristocrat? Should this be Hentersinn? At present, frankly, […]

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