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A bike ride along the marshes
Tetney marshes journaling page As I've been living at the Fitties for the last few weeks, I thought I'd take a bike ride along the coast...

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Sep 30, 20251 min read
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A canoe trip on the Ancholme
Me offering a helping hand to a southern migrant dragonfly that had fallen into the water and got its wings wet. On 24 September myself...

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Sep 30, 20252 min read
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Hills in living memory...
Memories of the hill alongside Cambridge Road. As part of my research into the Seven Hills I asked the ever-helpful Grimsby Memories...

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Sep 30, 20251 min read
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Taking the waters...
My son really took to swimming off the Fitties beach this summer. I have several friends who are cold-water swimming advocates, but I'd...

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Sep 30, 20251 min read
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The gulls are the sound of this town...
Poem for my We Are Marshy Folk project. ' The gulls are the sound of this town, and will continue to be, as land that used to be sea...

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Sep 30, 20251 min read
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Books, books, books!
Echolands by Duncan Mackay My working days often take place against the background of the podcast The Rest is History . I first heard...

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Sep 30, 20251 min read
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RSPB September talk
Steve Lovell talk, my notes! As part of my We Are Marshy Folk research I attended an RSPB talk on 15 September. It was by Steve Lovell ...

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Sep 30, 20251 min read
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In the shadow of the water tower
Display of my Waterworks project As part of my We Are Marshy Folk project, I displayed my In the Shadow of the Water Tower work from 2024...

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Sep 30, 20251 min read
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Sea lavender on the marsh
Sea lavender by the Fitties. This summer as part of my We Are Marshy Folk project I've spent weeks at my chalet by the sea at the...

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Sep 8, 20251 min read
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Candle
Inpspired by Woolf's words, 'unless one's to blow out'. The candle in the window flickers with each blow of the breeze. Its yellow...

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Jul 6, 20251 min read
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Grimsby and its water
An illustration from last year's @CreateNEL funded project about the Waterworks Woods in Grimsby. The story of the Waterworks Woods is...

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Jul 2, 20251 min read
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Grimsby's circularity
I'm not sure why but I'm feeling the urge to write rather than draw this week. It must be the heat. This piece is about how Grimsby is...

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Jul 1, 20251 min read
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Red socks
When one stray thought, contaminates the rest, like a red sock in a white wash.

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Jun 30, 20251 min read
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The longest days
Pelargoniums and petunias. The last day of June. The blood-red blooms of pelargoniums spill from their pots. Petunias, so pink it hurts...

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Jun 30, 20251 min read
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Time flies
Some thoughts around being the mum of a soon-to-be teenager and our speeded-up world and its impact on the environment. Filling the...

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Jun 26, 20251 min read
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Social media
Some thoughts on social media. Some journal pages thoughts on social media. On the one hand, it's great. I love having connections with...

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Jun 26, 20251 min read
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Wrecking balls
Anxiety Like being crushed, between feeling too much , about what's over and gone , and fretting too much , about whatever's to come ,...

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Jun 25, 20251 min read
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A breezy walk at the Fitties
Guided tour of the Humberston Fitties with Binbrook WI. I took a guided walk around the Humberston Fitties yesterday, as part of my work...

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Jun 24, 20251 min read
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Seven Hills of Grimsby
Lovely afternoon creating work around islands and water and communication based around thinking around the mounds in the marshes that...

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Jun 24, 20251 min read
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Sunday
Sunday The door has shut. The car gone. And with it the energy has drained from the house. Solace is to be found in the garden. Away from...

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Jun 24, 20251 min read
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