Bridget MacKeith
@bridgetmackeith.bsky.social
Illustrator with a background in children's books and greetings cards.
Now I do portrait commissions in the same style, as well as keeping a not-always-*entirely*-accurate illustrated diary.
Now I do portrait commissions in the same style, as well as keeping a not-always-*entirely*-accurate illustrated diary.
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Oh, and here is my guide to opera for any first-time opera-goers.
I took my daughter to Carmen when she was 8 & Otello when she was 9, & was unwittingly challenged about my choices when in the car going home from Dorset Opera she asked quietly 'Mummy. Does the pretty lady ALWAYS die at the end?'😬
I took my daughter to Carmen when she was 8 & Otello when she was 9, & was unwittingly challenged about my choices when in the car going home from Dorset Opera she asked quietly 'Mummy. Does the pretty lady ALWAYS die at the end?'😬
Food Chart.
I’m posting this so you can share my agony any time I use/cook/eat any of these.
I’m posting this so you can share my agony any time I use/cook/eat any of these.
November 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Food Chart.
I’m posting this so you can share my agony any time I use/cook/eat any of these.
I’m posting this so you can share my agony any time I use/cook/eat any of these.
TV for dogs.
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
TV for dogs.
‘Traitors gown. Click to Buy’.
Bought with his nose.
Bought with his nose.
November 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
‘Traitors gown. Click to Buy’.
Bought with his nose.
Bought with his nose.
The face of a dog who has been described as both ‘magnificent’ (not for his recall skills 🤣) and ‘hench’ by different strangers this last week.
He has a reputation to maintain now 😂😍
‘Alexa; play Right Said Fred’ 🤭
He has a reputation to maintain now 😂😍
‘Alexa; play Right Said Fred’ 🤭
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The face of a dog who has been described as both ‘magnificent’ (not for his recall skills 🤣) and ‘hench’ by different strangers this last week.
He has a reputation to maintain now 😂😍
‘Alexa; play Right Said Fred’ 🤭
He has a reputation to maintain now 😂😍
‘Alexa; play Right Said Fred’ 🤭
Half term selfie 😍
November 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Half term selfie 😍
Diary entry for Riley from last week. Successful café training; an awkward moment with a T Rex that turned out to be FAKE - who knew?!!; something spooky; a blat on the beach & ending up sharing a bone in the pub with Best Friend Eric. Their toes on the floor tiles sounded like tap dancing 😆🤗
November 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Diary entry for Riley from last week. Successful café training; an awkward moment with a T Rex that turned out to be FAKE - who knew?!!; something spooky; a blat on the beach & ending up sharing a bone in the pub with Best Friend Eric. Their toes on the floor tiles sounded like tap dancing 😆🤗
Although, through the medium of mime, I think Riley was telling me it was actually more like this 😳
November 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Although, through the medium of mime, I think Riley was telling me it was actually more like this 😳
A touch scary last night with thunder and lightning (very very frightening 😱).
Worth waking me up about 4 times in the night 🙄
Worth waking me up about 4 times in the night 🙄
November 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A touch scary last night with thunder and lightning (very very frightening 😱).
Worth waking me up about 4 times in the night 🙄
Worth waking me up about 4 times in the night 🙄
A BIG happy birthday to one of my oldest friends - ‘tis the season 🤭 - and only recently featured poor thing; it’s relentless. Still, she may* get 10 years off now 🤣 43 years (😳) of expert friendship & advice. And when we haven’t had the answers, laughing has solved the issue 😁
(*may 🫣)
(*may 🫣)
October 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
A BIG happy birthday to one of my oldest friends - ‘tis the season 🤭 - and only recently featured poor thing; it’s relentless. Still, she may* get 10 years off now 🤣 43 years (😳) of expert friendship & advice. And when we haven’t had the answers, laughing has solved the issue 😁
(*may 🫣)
(*may 🫣)
You may recall from a recent post that Riley had taken up baking? Well, he has been working hard on various techniques since so that today, on Tahra’s birthday, he is able to effortlessly produce an afternoon tea of freshly-prepared pastries and delicacies.
Go, Riley! 🤗
Go, Riley! 🤗
October 19, 2025 at 8:39 AM
You may recall from a recent post that Riley had taken up baking? Well, he has been working hard on various techniques since so that today, on Tahra’s birthday, he is able to effortlessly produce an afternoon tea of freshly-prepared pastries and delicacies.
Go, Riley! 🤗
Go, Riley! 🤗
Take your dog to a door showroom for a fun day out.
You’re out, then you’re in. Then you think you’re in, but actually you’re out 😵💫
Hours of fun.
You’re out, then you’re in. Then you think you’re in, but actually you’re out 😵💫
Hours of fun.
October 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Take your dog to a door showroom for a fun day out.
You’re out, then you’re in. Then you think you’re in, but actually you’re out 😵💫
Hours of fun.
You’re out, then you’re in. Then you think you’re in, but actually you’re out 😵💫
Hours of fun.
A little gift for two old friends celebrating (sssshhh… big) birthdays within weeks of each other and together since school 😍
October 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
A little gift for two old friends celebrating (sssshhh… big) birthdays within weeks of each other and together since school 😍
Our Martha’s made it to Santiago!
800kms in 35 days along the Camino Del Norte, starting in San Sebastián, laughing in the face of mountains and blisters, and meeting lovely, kind and interesting people along the way.
And her friend Molly joined her for the last few days 😍
Quite a 👣
🤗
800kms in 35 days along the Camino Del Norte, starting in San Sebastián, laughing in the face of mountains and blisters, and meeting lovely, kind and interesting people along the way.
And her friend Molly joined her for the last few days 😍
Quite a 👣
🤗
October 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Our Martha’s made it to Santiago!
800kms in 35 days along the Camino Del Norte, starting in San Sebastián, laughing in the face of mountains and blisters, and meeting lovely, kind and interesting people along the way.
And her friend Molly joined her for the last few days 😍
Quite a 👣
🤗
800kms in 35 days along the Camino Del Norte, starting in San Sebastián, laughing in the face of mountains and blisters, and meeting lovely, kind and interesting people along the way.
And her friend Molly joined her for the last few days 😍
Quite a 👣
🤗
2 days in and it’s going ok 😇
October 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
2 days in and it’s going ok 😇
Martha and Molly 🤗
Great to have a friend turn up to for the final yomp towards the finish line! And nice to have the extra challenge of being tied together 🤭
Go, girls!! 😍
*blisters not included*
Great to have a friend turn up to for the final yomp towards the finish line! And nice to have the extra challenge of being tied together 🤭
Go, girls!! 😍
*blisters not included*
October 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Martha and Molly 🤗
Great to have a friend turn up to for the final yomp towards the finish line! And nice to have the extra challenge of being tied together 🤭
Go, girls!! 😍
*blisters not included*
Great to have a friend turn up to for the final yomp towards the finish line! And nice to have the extra challenge of being tied together 🤭
Go, girls!! 😍
*blisters not included*
As it’s Riley’s Special Day, we decided to up our game from the usual preferred Labrador takeaway option, Deliverpoo - sheep 💩 delivered to your door by obliging local farmers 😁 - and go to the Surf ‘n’ Turf specialists Disgousto.
He deserves the best 😍
Look away now if you’re faint-hearted 😬
He deserves the best 😍
Look away now if you’re faint-hearted 😬
October 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
As it’s Riley’s Special Day, we decided to up our game from the usual preferred Labrador takeaway option, Deliverpoo - sheep 💩 delivered to your door by obliging local farmers 😁 - and go to the Surf ‘n’ Turf specialists Disgousto.
He deserves the best 😍
Look away now if you’re faint-hearted 😬
He deserves the best 😍
Look away now if you’re faint-hearted 😬
Happy FIRST birthday to our funny, shiny, silky smooth, lovely boy, Riley, with a heart of gold and the absolute serious intention of doing the right thing right up to the point where he totally forgets.
We love you, Riley!
🖤😍🖤
We love you, Riley!
🖤😍🖤
October 7, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Happy FIRST birthday to our funny, shiny, silky smooth, lovely boy, Riley, with a heart of gold and the absolute serious intention of doing the right thing right up to the point where he totally forgets.
We love you, Riley!
🖤😍🖤
We love you, Riley!
🖤😍🖤
Thinking of Xmas? I mean, it IS October, so you really should be 🤭
I have illustrated these cards, available in a pack of 6, for the Labrador UK Action Group, the lovely charity who re-homed Riley with us 😍🖤
Please look them up on Facebook and follow the link if you’d like to buy any ☺️😍
I have illustrated these cards, available in a pack of 6, for the Labrador UK Action Group, the lovely charity who re-homed Riley with us 😍🖤
Please look them up on Facebook and follow the link if you’d like to buy any ☺️😍
October 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Thinking of Xmas? I mean, it IS October, so you really should be 🤭
I have illustrated these cards, available in a pack of 6, for the Labrador UK Action Group, the lovely charity who re-homed Riley with us 😍🖤
Please look them up on Facebook and follow the link if you’d like to buy any ☺️😍
I have illustrated these cards, available in a pack of 6, for the Labrador UK Action Group, the lovely charity who re-homed Riley with us 😍🖤
Please look them up on Facebook and follow the link if you’d like to buy any ☺️😍
Today has been brought to you by the words:
Boring, dull and stagnant.
Luckily Riley is a highly intelligent dog who has stepped in in the medical and bakery fields and saved the day.
The Dogtor will see you now.
Boring, dull and stagnant.
Luckily Riley is a highly intelligent dog who has stepped in in the medical and bakery fields and saved the day.
The Dogtor will see you now.
September 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Today has been brought to you by the words:
Boring, dull and stagnant.
Luckily Riley is a highly intelligent dog who has stepped in in the medical and bakery fields and saved the day.
The Dogtor will see you now.
Boring, dull and stagnant.
Luckily Riley is a highly intelligent dog who has stepped in in the medical and bakery fields and saved the day.
The Dogtor will see you now.
Just to prove my crude animation skills are still intact 😆
September 29, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Just to prove my crude animation skills are still intact 😆
Riley’s First Autumn 🧡💛🤎
September 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Riley’s First Autumn 🧡💛🤎
Anyway, it’s Gareth’s birthday today! We’ve got building work happening at the moment so our bath’s outside, giving us a hot tub in the garden. Or a tub, anyway.
Everything else will be a damp squib while I moan all day about feeling rough 😰
Everything else will be a damp squib while I moan all day about feeling rough 😰
September 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Anyway, it’s Gareth’s birthday today! We’ve got building work happening at the moment so our bath’s outside, giving us a hot tub in the garden. Or a tub, anyway.
Everything else will be a damp squib while I moan all day about feeling rough 😰
Everything else will be a damp squib while I moan all day about feeling rough 😰
Home alone & ill all weekend, so spent my time wisely, watching Ferris Bueller’s Day Off & then, following Charlie Sheen’s ‘smouldering cameo’ stumbled across the new documentary about him, which was funny & sad 😕
Riley showed maturity beyond his months because he must have been bored to death 😇
Riley showed maturity beyond his months because he must have been bored to death 😇
September 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Home alone & ill all weekend, so spent my time wisely, watching Ferris Bueller’s Day Off & then, following Charlie Sheen’s ‘smouldering cameo’ stumbled across the new documentary about him, which was funny & sad 😕
Riley showed maturity beyond his months because he must have been bored to death 😇
Riley showed maturity beyond his months because he must have been bored to death 😇