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STEP INTO MY WORLD…

Dogs rounded up. Wellies on. Wednesday walk sorted Dogs rounded up. Wellies on. Wednesday walk sorted. 🌿🦌 Back home with a new story idea… 😉✍️📚

#worldbuilding #deer #nature #author #mentalhealth
One of the ways I unwind after a full day of writi One of the ways I unwind after a full day of writing is by making things 🤗

This is my Little Mouse school visit setup, and I made the Little Mouse Story Quilt with the help from everyone at the brilliant @harryandfloss_ 🧵📍🪡

The quilt comes to every author visit with me. The children love it and it sets the whole mood before I’ve even said a word! 

There’s something about keeping your hands busy that I really love. Things untangle. Ideas that were stuck just sort themselves out quietly while you’re doing something completely different.

Swipe to see how the Little Mouse Story Quilt came together. 🧵🐭❤️

What do you do when you need to switch off? 😊

#mentalhealth #littlemouseisfine #schoolvisit #authorlife #quiltingismytherapy
I have a dream board. On it there’s a picture of I have a dream board.

On it there’s a picture of someone doing a TED Talk to a packed audience. It represents something specific to me, not the TED Talk itself necessarily, but what it stands for. Turning up. Saying something that matters. Filling a room with it.

I’m quite shy, but put me on a stage talking about empowering children and something shifts. It doesn’t feel like performing. It feels like the most natural thing in the world.

Today I’m standing on the stage at the wonderful @kidderminstertownhall for an upcoming event. The seats are all empty. The lights are up. I’ve got shivers… 

Every child deserves to be the hero of their own story. I’m still working on being the hero of mine 💪😊📚

What’s on your dream board? 💫⭐️🌟

#dreambig #authorlife #amwri̇ti̇ng  #littlemouseisfine #inspire
Hank is awake. 🐢 Love this little dude! He’s been Hank is awake. 🐢

Love this little dude! He’s been tucked away sleeping since November, and this morning he decided it was finally time to wake up. 

First order of business was a bath, and I’ve been out collecting dandelion leaves, his absolute favourite, ready for when he’s properly back on his feet. He’s slowly coming round and taking stock of the world again.

The photo is from last year, Hank’s in the garden, tucking into strawberries in the sunshine. Hopefully he’ll be back out there doing exactly the same thing soon. I’ll keep you posted. 🌿

He’s 17 years old, and he loves adventures in the garden. Every summer I convince myself he’s lost forever, but Dempsey always finds him! 🐶 They have always been friends 💕

This year I’m building Hank a proper garden run so he can have his adventures with slightly less of my anxiety involved. Has anyone built a tortoise run they’d recommend? Any ideas, designs, or tips very welcome, just drop them in the comments! 🐢

Welcome home Hank ❤️

#tortoise #tortoiseofinstagram #authorlife #amwriting #subdayvibes
The garden at the new house is doing its April thi The garden at the new house is doing its April thing.

We’re still learning what’s here. Every few days something new appears… Yellow Archangel spreading quietly across the ground, bluebells we didn’t know were coming, the cherry blossom that’s been extraordinary this week and is now starting to fall and carpet the grass in white. 

The apple trees are just coming into bud, and tucked into the hedge, one single deep red rose bud that I nearly missed entirely.

We moved here not knowing what was already planted. Someone else put all of this in the ground, and we get to be the one who finds it ❤️ 🌼😊

There’s something really lovely about that. Inheriting someone else’s patience 🥰

We’ve added a few trees and plants of my own, and the veg seedlings from @pot.gang are going strong 💪 just need a greenhouse now! Update coming soon. 🌱

What’s coming up in your garden right now? 🌿

#gardenlife #mentalhealth #springgardening #authorlife #gardenersworld
This is TreeBob and he’s probably been standing in This is TreeBob and he’s probably been standing in this field for a few hundred years.

I chat with him every morning & I’ve untangled more stories here than I ever have at my desk. He’s ancient, dramatic, and he knows how to be a great listener 😊🥰

Someone else loves him too. 

Swipe to slide two… WARNING, it’s a little squeamish. Mr Fox has dug a hole & made his feelings very clear about whose tree this is 🦊💩😊

I have always loved trees. A few years ago I wrote an animation series built around them which got picked up by a production company... that was sooooo exciting! It didn’t get the green light in the end, and that one stung for a while if I’m honest.

Some stories take longer to find their moment, right? And I’m absolutely, completely, totally fine about that 😉🐭📚

Do you have a favourite tree? 🌳

#treesofinstagram🌳 #amwriting #woodlandtrust #mentalhealth #ukwildlife
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