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THE FEAR
It is hard to express just how terrifying it is to hear your child cry through the baby monitor after you have spent hours going through their bedtime routine trying to get them to sleep.
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Cartoons of my younger daughter
Finally I’ve had a bit more time to do some drawing after what has seemed like a never ending series of ‘holidays’ (my daughters are in different schools at the moment and their holiday dates don’t match up) . These are some cartoons I had the idea for ages ago but have only just gotten…
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Paris in the Spring
For the first time in FOREVER (6 years?) I had two nights away from my children and I met a couple of friends in Paris. It was a super easy journey on the Thalys from Brussels to Paris, and we had a really nice time despite the ongoing strikes in France. It’s amazing how much…
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Baby cartoon gift
I’ve had hardly any time to draw recently because my daughters have been taking it in turns to be ill and their schools have different holiday schedules which is driving me a little bit crazy, but I have managed to finish a gift for my niece of special moments throughout her first year! (Names and…
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Boulogne-sur-mer
For the February half-term holiday we went to Boulogne-sur-mer in France (about a two and half hour drive from Brussels, and only 20 minutes from the Eurotunnel in Calais). The aquarium Nausicaa near the centre of Boulogne is well worth visiting with kids. It bills itself as the biggest aquarium in Europe, and the main…
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Cartoon Diary
Last year I once again drew a little sketch cartoon everyday in my diary. Looking over them all today tantrums from the girls seem to feature most often..
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Walk of shame
The married-with-kids version of the walk of shame where you desperately try to get your child to nap by pushing her in the pram round the neighbourhood and all she does is scream “TV!!!” at the top of her lungs for a good twenty-five minutes before finally conking out.
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Zero Waste…?
Last February I joined a local zero waste group and as part of that I weighed my rubbish for a whole year. Here in Brussels they collect general rubbish, paper and cardboard for recycling, certain plastic waste for recycling (the types of plastic they collect expanded in September 2022) and food waste (which they burn…
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The garden
Recently I’ve been messing around with oil pastels trying to draw our garden from different angles (I sketch from photos I’ve taken of the garden during different seasons).
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