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Christmas cards
Sending out some of the home-made Christmas cards I painted ages ago (2014!) and have been keeping for no real reason to friends and family. They are mostly on the theme of cats distracting Father Christmas as we used to have two cats Shadow and Archimedes who would climb the Christmas tree and fight the…
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Fussy eater
My 7-year-olds daughter’s eating habits are driving me crazy. Add in a 3-year-old who won’t eat pasta or white potatoes and you have a recipe for disaster at every mealtime.
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Painting collaboration with my daughter
Isabel and I spent a happy afternoon last weekend in the garage messing around with acrylics.., all the paintings are mainly her doing, I just added some of the left-over paint as a final touch up!
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Leaving card
My daughter’s very nice substitute teacher is leaving as her real teacher is returning after a prolonged period of absence. She’s had this substitute teacher since the beginning of term and as this has been her first term of school, I think it’s going to be a bit unsettling. Tomorrow will be the leaving breakfast…
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Individual action (part 1)
Your actions matter and every fraction of a degree and every reduction in pollution matters.
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Art Exhibition
8 years ago, when I was pregnant with my eldest daughter, I started painting a lot. I had just moved to Brussels to live with my husband and wasn’t working because I was recovering from repetitive strain injury in my arms that I got from my job as a Sustainability Consultant in London. I found…
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How do you tell your children about climate change?
This cartoon of my daughter aged 7 is basically a revamp of an earlier cartoon I drew when she was 4: Her reactions have not changed in that time, she is still very sensitive and prone to dramatic meltdowns about the smallest of things, and I still haven’t had a talk with her or her…
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Willingen
For the Autumn half term holiday, we went to a family friendly hotel in Willingen, Germany which is a four-hour drive from our house in Brussels. We left the day after the girls had participated in a Halloween trick or treat parade round our neighbourhood (so the three-year-old had had sweets for the first time…
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