Jane Newdick

Cooks. Sews. Makes flowers grow.

[Jane Newdick @jane_newdick]

@PaulSuttonKing Bridport Dorset ?

[Jane Newdick @jane_newdick]

@stephenkeeler Sainfoin maybe ?

[Jane Newdick @jane_newdick]

This brings back the remembered sound of martins nesting under the eaves of a house I once lived in. Through the summer we woke each day to their busy chattering. So much texture and detail of natural sounds has been lost.

[Nicola Chester @nicolawriting]

Ah me. Us. What we’ve extinguished. A whole population of house martins in this village. Nest cup marks watermarked on so many of the houses still; a ghost village of thousands. Thumbprints of our guilt. Still hundreds when we came here, all gone in the last decades 1/2

[Jane Newdick @jane_newdick]

This looks hopeful for our transect there this week !

[Jane Newdick @jane_newdick]

Her short stories are beyond compare. Another re-reading is due...

[Alice Munro Daily @MunroQuotes]

Alice Munro, 1931-2024. 💔

[Jane Newdick @jane_newdick]

@lickedspoon Me too. 'Toppings' is another one.

[Jane Newdick @jane_newdick]

As a rural child in the 1950's every year we picked bunches of primroses, tied them with soft knitting wool and sent them by post in a shoe box to our London aunts

[British Gardening History @britgardhistory]

'Little Girl's Bunch', Eliot Hodgkin, April 1953.

[Jane Newdick @jane_newdick]

This reminded me I had some and found this collection. I'd forgotten I had them.

[British Gardening History @britgardhistory]

Wills cigarette cards - Garden Flowers Series 1933, No 40 'Snowdrop'.

[Jane Newdick @jane_newdick]

I inherited a Golden Delicious in a previous garden. Was all for digging it out but in fact the fruit hung on the bare branches until late December, turned bright yellow, and was then perfect for cooking, especially in French recipes.

[British Gardening History @britgardhistory]

It's the time of year when properly stored apples really come into their own, their flavours having subtly mellowed (though Golden Delicious wouldn't be my choice, even if wrapped as gorgeously as this one).

'One Golden Delcious in Purple Paper No 2 1978', Eliot Hodgkin.

[Jane Newdick @jane_newdick]

I read the 'The Tailor of Gloucester' once a year at Christmas for the glorious detail of the illustrations and memories from childhood of my father reading it to me.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

English author and illustrator Beatrix Potter, The Mice at Work, Threading the Needle, c.1902 #WomensArt

[Jane Newdick @jane_newdick]

I agree. His countryside is the landscape I grew up in, maybe with more detail than the reality, but everything he illustrated I was familiar with and loved.

[Stephen Keeler @stephenkeeler]

@LBFlyawayhome This is one of my all-time favourite Tunnicliffes and has been since I was a small boy marvelling at ‘What to Look For in Winter’. That light! That reflected light!!! I still see the natural world through his eyes. A very great artist. Wish I’d known him.

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
Window 3
‘Frost’
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

[Jane Newdick @jane_newdick]

@GardenBrocante I believe the little black basket is possibly what was used to carry live birds to sell at markets in France years ago.

[Jane Newdick @jane_newdick]

Elizabeth Blackadder had such skill with the way she used space between images on the page. They seem to float here - like falling leaves.

[Alexandra Epps @ArtGuideAlex]

Untitled (Amaryllis and Autumn Leaves) 2014 #ElizabethBlackadder

[Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @PP_Rubens]

Luis Melendez, loving the lumpiness of a pile of pears. Or a quorum of quinces Today is his day.

[Jane Newdick @jane_newdick]

Lots of very fresh Adonis Blues on Giant Hill today ⁦@BC_Dorset⁩

[Jane Newdick @jane_newdick]

Garden records here this year in West Dorset for mid-March and again in late June @BC_Dorset

[BC Dorset 🦋 @BC_Dorset]

Has anyone seen a Small Tortoiseshell in Dorset this summer? Only a handful of records on our website, most from N Dorset. Seems like their decline continues. Photo: Mark Pike

[Alexandra Epps @ArtGuideAlex]

Art for breakfast..
#IngridSmuling

[Jane Newdick @jane_newdick]

The start of the sweet pea season here
#sweetpeasunday

[Jane Newdick @jane_newdick]

A painting of seasonal produce from a personally favourite artist. Just beautiful.

[Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @PP_Rubens]

2/2 Artichokes in a bowl. Some strawberries on the ground. And, peeking out from behind, a rose. By Giovanna Garzoni, on her day.