Chicken book
CHICKEN COOPS FOR THE SOUL - http://bit.ly/Coops1 When Julia Hollander went to buy her daughter a rabbit for Christmas she came home with a couple of hens. Five years later, the whole family was on its way to the National Poultry Club show, connoisseurs of the rarest...
OXFORK SHOW
Paintings on display at funky local cafe - OXFORK, Jan/Feb 2013
HOSPITAL EXHIBITION
My paintings and drawings were recently showing at the John Radcliffe hospital, Oxford - in the main corridor for May and June 2013 Great to bring some nature-inspired joy into that serious and oh-so-unhealthy place!
ILLUSTRATIONS
People ask who did the illustrations for my book, CHICKEN COOPS.. so I had better own up - 'twas me. Art A-level too many decades ago is the only qualification I can summon to mind, though I have managed to keep my hand in meanwhile with a sketch-book in my handbag...
Paintings – take a closer look
OXFORK SHOW - january/february 2013, some examples
Allotment Joys
ALLOTMENT JOYS In the summer I got into nasturtiums. Rather, my allotment did. It feels frustratingly hard to recall already, but the summer of 2012 was seriously wet; in fact, the whole year seems to have been wet - the high-point being the floods around Christmas....
Cole Porter
When: January 10 Where: Faringdon Corn Exchange - University of the Third Age
OXFORK SHOW
COME AND SEE MY LATEST PAINTINGS, ALONG WITH ORIGINAL DRAWINGS FROM MY BOOK - Chicken Coops for the Soul. On show and for sale at Oxford's grooviest cafe - Oxfork - Magdalen Road, OX4 http://oxfork.com/ The exhibition goes up on January 5 and will be there for 2...
Christmas Gig
Dreaming of a White Christmas. At the Clocktower, Blackbird Leys, Oxford - Friday Dec. 21, 1.30pm
SOLAR POWER
Like wild birds, chickens are highly attuned to light. Wrap a wing around her face and in a couple of seconds she will be fast asleep, such is her sight's sensitivity. Which is why she is so much more efficient than my children at putting herself to bed at night. The...
Tragedy
I should have posted earlier, to describe the terrible demise of my first family of chicks. Well. Peaches'. Five of them hatched. Three were really sturdy and on day two were out on the lawn, learning their mother's old-fashioned scratch-n-peck form of feeding by...
Phew
So - that scrawny little thing eventually made it out (five hours later). And I'm proud to say I resisted the temptation to prise away the shell....It is flailing around quite horribly now, and its proud Mum is nudging it around with her beak - 'Come on, matey, get...