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(22 far away castles | meadow seeds) [30 Jun 2008|04:25pm] tiny maps for my love to follow and sunburnt noses. my anniversary has been perfect. tonight we are walking around the park and then my love is putting on a little puppet show on the ceiling for me. p.s can you spy little baby? x

(22 far away castles | meadow seeds) [27 Jun 2008|02:11pm] My heart this week lies with dear prince caspian (and peter penvensie) although i do believe that Jean Marc Perret made such a lovely prince caspian. In a few days, it will be my loves and my first wedding anniversary. I am taking him on a surprise wooden rowing boat ride with a picnic and little lanterns and bunting to hang up around the willow trees. I shall wear my newest nightdress and patent shoes. My hamper is full of berries and lemonade and i shall be baking little cakes and brambly crumble for his tummy. i have spent all my pennies on little presents for him and i have been in the kitchen baking raspberry scones. what have you been spending your days doing? my little baby will be here in eleven weeks and in two weeks, i shall be turning twenty-two.

(15 far away castles | meadow seeds) [03 Jun 2008|12:59pm] i have been saving all my pennies in my little peter pot and i counted them all up and bought a little sugar mice family to live in the attic of my dolls house. Their names are peach and melba and cherry and fig. When I was younger, all my walls were covered in ripped out horse posters and I had written their name in red crayon on the wall next to their picture. They were my friends and I used to make up stories and sit on my bed crossed legged, telling them to the horses. Now the room is paps and there are no pictures on the walls at all but there are still a few crayoned names. It just makes me sad that I cannot remember what the horses look like anymore. Ma is taking me to more steam ralleys soon. It really helps my heart. Laughing and twirling.

(16 far away castles | meadow seeds) [18 May 2008|09:38pm] Today i went to pap's house. he made me laugh until my sides hurt and i went all giddy. little bailey sat on my knees and played round and round the garden like a teddy bear with my tummy and he too made me giggle when he tickled me in my sides. eight little fingers and two little thumbs. he kept telling my baby that he loved her and that when she comes out, she can go to school with him and help him with his paintings. ( bear bear and wild ponies. )

(28 far away castles | meadow seeds) [10 May 2008|09:11pm] i have been making paper mache masks in the garden and flower pressing. i have also decided that i would like to take up a drawing course. tomorrow i shall be in the woods and corn fields having a teaparty. join me will you? ( picnic at hanging rock. )

(45 far away castles | meadow seeds) [05 May 2008|06:32pm] yesterday i went to the steam fayre. i found in the grass the most brightest buttercup and i wore it in my cardigan button hole for the whole day but it fell out by the ferris wheel and i couldn't see where it had fallen to. the horses looked so grand on the carousel and i watched pap riding a beautiful white horse with blossom pink reins. when little bailey came off the carousel, he squeezed my hand so tight and said "i rode seabiscuit". i found a little box full of old watercolours, oil pastels, ink nibs and quills. i have put them carefully away on my dressing table. we had pancakes with lemon and sugar and we bought fudge and little paperbags of sweets and i can't remember smiling so much. i think yesterday was my most favourite day of the year so far. what has been yours? ( a few more pictures for you. )

(33 far away castles | meadow seeds) [29 Apr 2008|08:38pm] (i am having a little baby girl. she is my own little tindrum.) ( rigoletto. )

(18 far away castles | meadow seeds) [15 Apr 2008|03:01pm] a million little working ants are marching across my chest. it is getting a little harder to breath. there is foxglove in my voicebox. i feel like mount etna. boiled sweets in my cheeks. rhubarb and custard and peach ones too. sugar melting on your tongue, in your throat, in your tummy. i wish i could buy pap all the stars in the constellations. equuleus and pegasus and lepus and cassiopeia. he gets so sad and my words or penmanship are not enough to make everything better again. And ma. she is sad also. alot of people are becoming sad and train sets with milk carriages and coal carriages and wood carriages are not enough to make them happy again. wood for the fireplace and milk for the tea. next week, i am writing my dreams out on old treasure maps and i shall be sending them in bottles up the river. maybe i might also write out a story about how the narwhale fell in love with the great horned owl (and her owlets). dearest iris has sent me the biggest box of treasure for myself and my little baby. my heart nearly exploded when i opened it up. there are such generous people in this world and i think iris is one of the most (and beth also).

(31 far away castles | meadow seeds) [06 Apr 2008|06:37pm] there are more and more finger and nose prints on my window. i don't see how they can all have come from me. little smudges like bear kisses. maybe my grizzly bear has been trying to kiss the snowflakes last night. you know that feeling you get after you have stared into the sun for too long and your eyelashes turn into beads of glitter glue and dewdrops and tiny gold horse hairs? then you can see dust trails dancing around within the rays. i like to think they are fairy dust or babies tears. what do you like to think they are? ( icicles )

(36 far away castles | meadow seeds) [27 Mar 2008|03:58pm] monday i stayed up past my bedtime glueing together my new little wooden watermill whilst my love painted his model airplanes. for easter, my grandmother bought me a wonderful edwardian nightgown. I have been wearing it whilst doing my paintings. what did everyone else get? i had a little teaparty in my bathroom with almond tea and my new teaset. i am still making my solar system and also a little wood world on my old brown paper for madison-ruth. my little bambino has started kicking. like my very own tin drum. it is mostly at bedtime (i think it might secretly be an owl). ( milkteeeeth )

(15 far away castles | meadow seeds) [18 Mar 2008|08:47pm] they flew in diamonds, lanterns on their beaks keep up tiny robin for the crows will come huddle with the biggies eagles and vultures are eating barley sugars on the hilltops baby seagulls singing to their ma's but their ma's haven't any blossom to feed them and their little tummies are growling like lions. hello, this afternoon i slept and slept. i had one sock on and one sock off and my carousel book next to my pillow. i then played with some paperboats in the bath tub and my love made me french toast. last night i sat up in bed and watched a little video of my sister's second birthday. I had my flower party dress on with a big pink bow and a little white bow in my hair and i danced around to oranges and lemons and nutmegs in may that ma played on our little tape player. i danced with naomi the most and we spun around in that many circles, i thought i might watch myself fall over (and cut my knee or elbow). i won sleeping lions. keeping all my muscles and bones still and trying to hold my breath for as long as i could. i think i looked happy. i cannot really remember how i felt at four years old but i smiled alot and grandmother was there and nan-nan and gan-gan. i like to keep memories of them all in my tiny heart. i remember i had rosey cheeks and a freckled nose. baby teeth (but one missing at the front). who do you like to keep in your heart? the doctor this morning has said that i should stay at home for a while as i have been poorly.

(31 far away castles | meadow seeds) [12 Mar 2008|09:42pm] (i have been making a little mobile with tree twigs and golden thread and the animals of farthing wood (and a grizzly bear). there is weasel, fox, deer and of course grizzly bear. they even had their pictures taken for you.) i have been learning how to play cats cradle. i have learnt up to the seventh step but i have no-one to play it with. i really do need to finish painting my little star box where i shall be hanging planets to make my little solar system. my love is helping me. i keep getting distracted with books and my new watercolours. i have started to write my dreams in a diary i keep under my pillow. it scares me that someday i shall forget them all. two nights ago, i dreamt of a pirate that got married in a sailors suit. he had six shiny buttons and one rusty one on his sleeve and he had a peterpan collar around his neck. he tricked the girl into thinking he was her long lost love who went to sea years before. i cannot remember what happened next. i haven't really been sleeping all that well or all that long to remember.

(65 far away castles | meadow seeds) [07 Mar 2008|06:31pm] the little mice in my dolls house are being naughty and are trying to escape through the window panes. i keep putting them back to bed but through the night, i see them peeking out again. i grazed my knee the other day as i sat swinging my legs from the stone wall reading my book. Monday is pap's birthday and i am making him something very special. I hope it makes him smile. sleeper 1972 wild horses ( my little baby )

(36 far away castles | meadow seeds) [29 Feb 2008|05:43pm] hello, i sharn't be writing alot today. i am abit topsy turvey and have been poorly but i wanted to share some photographs with you. i do hope you like them and that you have all been well. ( a few more. )

(37 far away castles | meadow seeds) [22 Feb 2008|10:00pm] hello, i have been taking the bus alot and writing nonense sentances in my paper journal. today i made a list of all the farms we passed. there was cherry tree farm and little foot farm. and abbey's with ships and sails at the sash windows and saint christopher was in the water by turvey and the blossom had just started to bloom in lavendon. an old man had fallen asleep on the front seat and he gripped in his hands a photo album. i thought that they were of all his grandchildren and that he was on his way to see them in a school play or to have tea with their ma. my grandma today gave me an edwardian pop up dolls house book and some old lace. she has the most kindest heart. we had fruit tea and cake and we looked through so many photographs and it was a really lovely afternoon. Her hair is as pure white as milk. i do believe it is going to rain soon. the cows told me in their fields. they were all huddled under one little apple tree. i started a recipe book yesterday. ( some little photographs )

(32 far away castles | meadow seeds) [18 Feb 2008|07:37pm] (i sent of three little paperboats today) i counted sixty-three stitches on my new ribbon yesterday. i feel like ruby robin as well sometimes. my most favourite place to be is in the woods by the river bank, playing with my paperboats and feeding the angel swans. there are five (i counted) and two little squirrels who live in the tree right by my little sitting platform. they sometimes come to say hello but i do worry that they will get cold. my new favourite plant is the river reed. i think they have the most elegant little heads. are you going to be watching the little moon eclipse this week? ( sailing sailing )

(53 far away castles | meadow seeds) [11 Feb 2008|01:52pm] (I think summer has come already) I have finished four of my new books so far and I have started another Enid Blyton story. Her words are my most favourite with children named Mary and George and Amelia. My love and i have been playing with my new wooden puppet theatre and his fingers turn into the most funniest of characters with shiny noses and sugarglazed eyes. Ma and i have been talking about the summer and about the steam ralleys and country fayres and the outings to bluebell woods and the bell pool. Oh and to go and pick strawberries at harpole farm with our pinnies with deep pockets that go right down to our knees. Do you have any summer plans? i do have some photographs to show you all but i shall have to wait until my film is developed. ( woods (and my love) )

(42 far away castles | meadow seeds) [04 Feb 2008|03:39pm] I haven't written in an awfully long time. I have been a little hibernating squirrel under my blankets with star maps and my encylopedia of fairies, goblins, brownies and other small people. I have spent one of my days in the meadow and the woods and the old Abbey's gardens with some honeycomb in my pockets and two holes in my tights. Yesterday was so so wonderful. I sat in my pap's living room with the biggest dictionary you ever saw on my lap and my ma sat with the thesaurus and my pap sat with the ancient world enclyopedia and Shauna had my children's enclyopdia and we all helped to finish two cross word puzzles in the back of the newspaper. It took me a whole hour to find out what the secret underworlds of the greeks were called but i found the answer and i felt so proud. Pap gave me a little wink and he smiled and i smiled. My grandmother has an old pop up dolls house like dear Tiffany's for me and i told grandmother all about her and her beautiful photographs and she said that thought she sounded wonderful (and i agree whole heartedly). I would like to go to the museum in her town with her again sometime soon. We went when i was a little girl and the whole museum is an old victorians house and you walk around and you can play in the nursery and try and find the father's pipe and coat and the mothers comb and mirror and it is the most beautifulest house you ever saw, but the best part was the gift shop with its real dolls houses and books on lanterns and shoes. I have finished many packages for some dear people and they shall be on there way to them very very soon. Edelweiss ( the meadow )

(33 far away castles | meadow seeds) [16 Jan 2008|04:15pm] nutcracker, clara, mouse king, the sugar plum fairy, Counselor Drosselmeyer, Prince Koklyush and Mama Gigogne (my little theatre) There have been tiny swords and tiny dolls and tiny ballet shoes and tiny presents on my bedroom floor. I think the soliders and the mouse king have been having secret battles while i have been sleeping. I have decided that there must be a fox living in my wardrobe for everytime i go to pick out a dress for the day - it all seems muddled and topsy turvey. I have found that the longest word in the dictionary is pneumonoultra­micro­scopicsilico­volcano­coniosis which is a disease of the lungs caused by volcanic dust. i think you would need to take at least ten breaths to be able to say all of that. The sleet started to come down the chimney the other night while i was starting to make a little hanky for my friend. I just hope my garden does not turn into a river with all this rain. My teeny baby is developing his or hers milk teeth and baby lungs and is as long as my thumb. Like thumbelina. Saturday i shall be at the horse fields with my new little camera and biscuits for the birds. I wish you could all join me.

(105 far away castles | meadow seeds) [06 Jan 2008|09:43pm] I wanted to leave a little entry to tell everyone that i am having a tiny bambino. I found out on friday and he or she shall be the most precious little being in the whole world. I don't think i have ever been so happy. ( flowers )

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