Making this rook marked the beginning of a long-term project ~ a collection of bird sculptures representing individual birds who have become famous for one reason or another. The particular individual rook who inspired this make has a fascinating story as an individual bird and he is a bird that you can still go and meet in person for yourself (albeit he is no longer alive). More on that in a later post. However, I have also wanted to specifically make myself a rook for a ve

The decorations are down and carefully packed, the tree has been mulched at the Whitstable lifeboat station and our visitors have returned home. My house is duller, colder, emptier. I am into my January wintering. I haven’t gone anywhere. My special place to winter is here at home, especially in-front of the log-burner. Wintery music, short story audiobooks and nature podcasts accompanied by steaming cups of earl grey tea are part of my hibernation, as are biscuits, crochet a

In which a book gifted to me for Christmas by my son, gives me an unexpected way to move forward in my making of birds. I am sure you have had a similar experience ~ you're very sleepy and almost ready to close your eyes, when you spot a book that's been waiting for a while by your bed and think 'Oh I'll just have a look inside...' And then it is a few hours later and you're still reading. Well, in this case I not only found myself awake an hour or two later, I was also cryi