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DawnWitneyWriter
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Norfolk UK. Wannabe published author, in love with #18thcentury, romantic heroes, Poldark, horses and horsepower @jerichowriters #SelfEditAlumni #amwriting #UNWCAlumni
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Before sunrise I had this adventure. Some tit on the allotments shut a Tit in the toilet overnight! 🤣🤣🤣 He was very grateful to be released
August 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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If you like your heroes strong and silent, letting actions speak louder than words then Raven Purfoy is your man! If we're lucky, the author might smile on us and show us his face from a drawing she commissioned 🤞
janedunnauthor.bsky.social Jane Dunn @janedunnauthor.bsky.social · Aug 11
In my latest The Accidental Debutante we're off to the circus! My heroine, lost as a child in Bath, is found by the circus & trained as a trick rider. She runs away to find her family & finds much more - friendship, love, adventure, danger - the joy in living.
#Regency #books #readers
August 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Enjoying a bickie break on the #allotment Took him awhile to give me 'sit' and then facing the wrong way 🤣
August 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Photos taken 50 minutes apart this morning. #Sturgeonmoon and #sunrise
August 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Ladybird Book of Trees, 1963
Walnut and Dogwood
Artist: SR Badmin
The walnut tree is in the foreground of this illustration, which focuses on the thick trunk and gnarly bark. The dogwood is in the background in a meadow behind a five bar gate leading to distant hills
August 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Not sure Johnny approved of the 2:45am alarm, but worth it to see the Buck Moon in one direction and the sun rising in the other #allotmentlife
July 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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We grew Mr Potato Head!
June 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Another gorgeous #sunrise
June 22, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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‘The witch’s garden’

(Rapunzel, 1968)
Artist: Eric Winter
A beautifully tended garden with mature, densely planted flower beds around a neatly mown lawn in mid-summer.
June 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Set alarm for 3am to get to allotment early. Breakfast break watching the sunrise
June 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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And so begins another week to fill with meaningful activity 😊

Artist: Harry Wingfield
A mother is using her initiative to entertain a toddler. The child has a home-made washing line and the mother holds a bowl of empty pea pods which the child is, with great concentration, hanging on the line.
June 16, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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#bees #poppies at 06:45 this morning on the #allotment
June 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Robin’
Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton
Song Birds, 1974
In the foreground, a robin puts his head back to sing, perched on a garden wall. Behind the wall is a large lawn, trees, gardens and some large, comfortable- looking houses
June 14, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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The height of refinement, 1977.
(And apparently still on sale today)

‘Cooking’, 1977
Photograph showing a child using a hand whisk to whisk up something in a bowl while another child looks on. A box of dream topping stands proudly on the worktop
June 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Experiments with ‘Invisible Ink’

Martin Aitchison (1967)
An illustration in four panels showing, in the first panel, a girl reading a ladybird book to find out how to make invisible ink. In the next panel she makes it and then writes something and finally, with a friend, she tries to read it.
June 9, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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1970s picnic
Artist: RobertAyton

(Talkabout Holidays, 1977)
A family of four are picnicking in 1970s style, in pretty countryside next to their Ford Anglia, with a picnic blanket, thermos flask of tea and (probably) egg and cress sandwiches
June 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Beautiful everyday Ladybird things.
The best seat on the bus (1964)
Artist: Harry Wingfield
Two children sit at the top of a double decker bus. They are in the very front seat and the boy is pointing to something outside the window straight ahead
June 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Ladybird book pictures on request.
‘Elf-made shoes’
The Elves and the Shoemaker
Artist: Robert Lumley
An elderly shoemaker looks at a pair of pretty pink boots that have arrived ready-made on his workbench, and he scratches his head in bafflement
May 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Other work by the Ladybird artists.
‘A lane in midsummer’ (1945)
Artist: SR Badmin
A finally detailed mixed media illustration of a country lane. A mother and two young girls are intensely focused on foraging and picking flowers from the impressively varied hedgerow. In the foreground, the sprinkling of red poppers may hint at the date of the picture
May 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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The modern world in old Ladybird books.
Eating on trains, 1974.
Artist: Frank Humphris
In a dining car on a train, a smartly dressed couple make their selection from the tray held by a liveried waiter with very sharp parting
May 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Other work by the Ladybird artists.
County Wicklow, Ireland
Railway poster.
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
A view down into a densely wooded valley surrounded by rolling hills in many contrasting shades of green. The focal point is a bridge over the river leading to a small church and a cluster of houses
May 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Other work of the Ladybird artists.
‘The Swallows’ Rendezvous’ (1937)
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
An engraving or scraperboard illustration of a swallow with open wings just landing on a telegraph wire, where other birds are beginning to collect
May 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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May 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Reading the electric meter

‘Public Services: Electricity’,
1967
Artist: John Berry
May 27, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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When it all went wrong for the ‘Gingerbread Boy’ (1966)

Artist: Robert Lumley
At the edge of a river, a fox tosses the gingerbread boy up in the air and then opens his mouth, ready to snap
May 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM