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surkea.bsky.social
My new zine Leevi and the Feelings ready for TampereKuplii! It's a chaotic collection of my private comicdiaries, 60pages in total. Already planning a sequel for it, as I couldn't fit all the material in the first one... Find us (OUTOLINTU collective) from Pienlehtimarssi table P23!👋🌝
March 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
January sketchbook: St Barnabas Jericho, highlights of the Ashmolean Museum, the fish shop, marble run!

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Sketch of St Barnabas church tower, rooftops and wintery tree and sky Sketch of toddler's Ashmolean highlights: security robe, radiator, status base, automatic doors, lights on floor, lockers, bridges, stairs Sketches of fish from our local fish shop/aquarium - various weird and wonderful fish and a terrapin, sketched while toddler was busy fetching imaginary disco lights for the fish Sketch of our excellent marble run, which I was playing with while toddler was asleep
March 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
surkea.bsky.social
it's going to have pages from my private comicdiaries i've drawn during the past few years, but i'm also drawing some new stuff for it too! ✌️
January 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
February sketchbook: theatre trip, a typical day of examining pipework, baby terrapins, chaos child

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Sketches of our second theatre trip - a big success (Hey Little Bird at the Pegasus theatre) - toddler pays attention and there are hats and disco lights, an owl, balloons and a carnival! Sketches of a day with a toddler: he actually borrows books in the library but only because he's intrigued by the machine, he plays a lot of "posting screw through hole in a cupboard", we look at the boiler, we examine my neighbour's CD player, we do a disco in the dark, I find him in the cot with his pyjamas wrapped round he so both he sleeces are on one arm (then he does a massive poo) Sketches of baby terrapins Sketches of "chaos child" - toddler exploring my room - taking things off my shelves, climbing things, rolling around with bubble wrap
April 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Sketchbook diaries from May - Botanical Gardens, garden centre, sleepy toddler

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Sketches of toddler enjoying fountain at Botanical gardens, making himself useful doing the hoovering, playing with lego like a child, and eating a giant "brookie" brownie Sketches of an exhausting bank holiday Monday - trip to garden centre including hash browns, peacocks, hosepipe; very brief nap in car; playing in garden with tap and unexpectedly disturbed ants' nest (!); toddler passes out; trip to the playground; washing up Sketch of adorably asleep toddler in his cot, with mobile above him
December 3, 2024 at 9:34 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Diaries from May: sleepy toddler, Sutton Hoo viewing tower, journey home from Suffolk, playing in the park

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Sketch of toddler with tousled hair asleep on a big bed Black and white sketch of Sutton Hoo viewing tower (minimalist style, made of wood and concrete), two pine trees, toddler and my dad Sketch of journey home from Suffolk - we survive thanks to pastries, yellow submarine, playground stop, exciting aeroplane, and repeatedly recounting the plot of Hey Duggee - the juice badge 5 sketches of toddler playing in the park with a mud kitchen - wearing blue trousers, yellow T shirt, blue spotty sunhat
December 1, 2024 at 10:00 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
More sketchbook diaries from Christmas: tree, sneaky trip to the theatre (minus toddler), playing in fountains at King's cross, and self portrait

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Sketch of a Christmas tree Sketch of the London eye against a pink sky and some buses near Waterloo Bridge - caption "sneaky trip to the theatre!" Sketch of the toddler dragging me through a network of little fountains at King's Cross Sketch of me sitting on the bed sketching in a purple sweater with excitingly messy hair. Caption: 12 years daily sketching (except 28th November 2019)
March 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Sketchbook diaries from December: a play, a sick toddler, a sick me, and my baby nephew

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Sketch of the toddler's first play - the Elves and the Shoemaker. Toddler liked the lighting rig and the bit where they blew bubbles - I liked the bit where the dog made a spreadsheet Sketch of sick toddler cuddled up on the sofa in a big red blanket watching telly Sketches of travelling for Christmas while sick - I was feverish all night (chattering with cold and then burning up); I cuddle sick boy; mum takes toddler out while I do hurried packing (I'm crawling towards my suitcase saying GNNN); we just about survive bus, train, tube, bus and I collapse on my parents' sofa Sketches of my baby nephew - most of them looking nothing like him!
March 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
November sketchbook: lots of cooking, no nap day, bad mood, genius plan

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Sketch of all the meals I cooked one lunchtime (in pots and neatly packed up in freezer boxes): leek and potato soup, tomato sauce, cheesy pasta sauce Sketches of toddler peacefully playing and watching tv (with caption: this boy hasn't napped today!) Sketches of toddler in a bad mood: crying because my bicycle light isn't flashing; all he wants to do is lie on the floor and rewire duplo house with a bungee cord; eats a reluctant potato waffle in from of Duggee on TV and leaves masticated fishfingers all over the floor; refuses a bath; demands medicine and then he's fine Sketch of my genius plan - teach the toddler to wash up - what could go wrong? Sketch of toddler and me at the sink - he's saying "more soap on it", I'm saying "very good - try not to break that one"
March 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Winter sketchbook: a mummy and granny day, things that are used as wires, tools, a tree full of parakeets!

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Sketches of a freezing cold day with toddler and my mum - visit the market, watch people make flatbread in café, bake (toddler only interested in chocolate drops), find missing toys and bits of old dust, cuddle up and watch Duggee, fill freezer with soup and curry Sketches of things that are used as (pretend) wires in this house: keys, string, bungee cord, tape measure, sewing thread, duplo chargin cable Sketch of a selection of toy tools Sketch of me walking along Iffley Road in the dark (half moon), when I look up startled at a tree full of squawking green parakeets!
April 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Sketchbook diaries from May - the sea the sea/to the lighthouse (holiday in Aldeburgh, Suffolk)

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Sketches of my mum holding the toddler on a pebbly beach with fishing boats and lots of seagulls Sketches of journey to Suffolk - nearly don't go because my dad's driving license has run out, toddler initially excited to be in the car, but this doesn't last long - I sing many songs about pile drivers and he is sick - but at least we get to the sea the sea Sketches of a trip to Southwold - we get lost, cross the river Blyth on a rowing boar ferry, toddler very excited about toy windmills and real lighthouse but then cries all the way home Sketch of a white lighthouse against a blue sky
November 26, 2024 at 10:11 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
November sketchbook: tree, freezer, bouncy castle, snow!!

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Sketch of a beech tree with a few remaining autumn leaves Sketch of me manically hacking ice from the freezer with a fish slice while I'm supposed to be working Sketch of toddler's first time at a traditional birthday party - he learns to navigate the bouncy castle, and has his first experiences of party rings and putting hula hoops on his fingers Sketch of SNOW! Toddler is very excited about snow outside the window ("it 'nowing it 'nowing) but very upset about going outside in it. I then cycle to work, admiring pretty Oxford but getting my socks soaked, because I wore unsuitable boots. Luckily I did have the wisdom to bring spare dry socks to the office.
February 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
End of summer sketchbook: Gloucester Green market, apples and blackberries, Cowley Road carnival, pipes

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Sketch of yellow- and green-roofed market stalls, a woman in a yellow summer dress wandering past holding a drink Sketch of blackberry and apple crumble being prepared - apples in bowl and stewing, crumble topping in another bowl, blackberries in a tub Sketch of Cowley Road carnival fairground - children on bouncy castle, spinning swing tower, terrifying spinny thing... Sketches of toddler's ongoing fascination with pipes: connecting the hoover, staring at the U bend, pumping up the bike tire (which then goes flat on the way to nursery pick up and I only just get there in time)
January 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
February sketchbook: narrowboat, mirror trap, handgel incident, playground with friends

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Sketch of a red and green narrowboat with a perkily angled chimney on the canal under yellow willow branches Sketch of toddler re-enacting a scene from Janet and Allan Ahlberg's "Worm book" where a worm is lured into a trap by a mirror. The toddler recreates this by climbing up a chair on to his bedside table, fiddling with the mirror and jumping into a "hole" on his bed Sketch of the handgel incident - toddler likes to play with an (unused) urine sample bottle at bedtime - we can't find it, so I hurriedly offer him a nearly-empty handgel bottle. But then he pours it near his eye and a bit in his mouth. I wash out his eye and give him water and milk and worry all night - but he is totally fine! Sketch of my toddler and friends' kids hanging out in a playground
April 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Sketchbook diaries from June: to the mountains! (family holiday to Windermere)

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Sketches of journey from Oxford to Lake Windermere - after various disasters (soap in eye, missing bus...) we eat hula hoops on the train; we find my parents and amazingly S. sleeps in car and wakes up to play with stones at a garden centre; things then get very screamy (despite repeated applications of Yellow Submarine); we make an emergency supermarket stop (S. is hyper and removes all jam from the shelf), then eventually reach the lake and the house which is entirely composed on stairs! Black and white sketch of holiday house - two long farmhouses whacked together, ivy growing round door, garden chairs and pram (with sleeping kid) outside Black and white sketch from Brockhole garden - mountains, lakes in background; in foreground flowers and feet of sleeping child Sketches of small children playing under trees in gardens of Wray Castle
December 13, 2024 at 10:44 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
September sketchbook: a stupid evening, toddler with hosepipe, my friend's cat, still life with apples

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Sketches of a silly night - I have a cold, the washing machine is full of poo, I'm meant to be packing, toddler won't go to sleep (wants to find buttons on duvet, discuss ferry boat, goes to sleep, wakes up again and needs feeding to sleep) Sketch of delighted toddler in waterproof suit wielding a hosepipe 10 sketches of my friend's cat, Majel, in increasingly improbable poses Sketch of kitchen scales, bowl of apples, and many things that need washing up
January 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Sketchbook diaries from May: FINALLY meet my new baby nephew, logistics of getting extended family to the park; complementary scone; toddler and bubbles

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Three sketches in black and white of a woman (my sister in law) breastfeeding a small baby with sticky-up hair Diagram/sketches showing logistics of getting extended family to the park - family is split into three parties (each with one of the children) - we all eventually get to the park and home again, but the parties only barely overlap! Sketch of tea and scone. Caption "at John Lewis while they run updates on my computer. But they have successfully diffused* my irritation by giving me a complementary tea and scone" *I probably meant defused 6 sketches of the toddler playing in the garden, sometimes with no trousers on - he is enjoying a watering can, a squirty bottle, and lots of bubbles
November 21, 2024 at 10:03 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Autumn sketchbooks - drainpipe day, today's games, much domesticity, and a trip to the park

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A sketch of me wheeling happy toddler in pram during a massive rainstorm, while drainpipes pour water into the gutter - all coloured in with blue watercolour paint (partly applied by the toddler) Sketches of games with toddler: drumming on bedknob, throwing stones in fountain, kicking cafe window, painting (but only orange), little home in playground including imaginary toilet, hoovering with a chair Sketches of domesticity and its results: cooking sweet potato curry and chips - all refused (he was sad because he really wanted the "odange chips" but then didn't like them); vast amounts of laundry and then we hide under my duvet cover and pretend it's a tent at Reading festival Sketch of an autumn trip to Cutteslowe park, including playground, walking on railway lines, eating fishfingers, finding conkers, feeding swans
February 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Sketchbook diaries from May - all the makings of a classic seaside holiday - i.e. rain and teething grumpy toddler!

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Black and white sketch of beach and building with little tower at Aldeburgh - done hurriedly in the ten minutes when the rain had stopped and the toddler was having a bath! Sketch of toddler on stony beach posting stones into a rowing boat (and Shelby the sheep - a soft toy who nursery sent on holiday with us) Sketches of "classic seaside holiday" - toddler feverish/teething, endlessly singing yellow submarine in the car, crisps in the rain on the beach, suddenly need suncream, fish pie! Sketches of our trip to Benjamin Britten's house: home of disaster napping. Toddler didn't go to sleep on the rainy walk to the house, then got tired and screamed so loudly he set off the fire door; got him to contact nap in the rain - for 20 minutes. At least the rain stopped for the walk home!
November 28, 2024 at 9:55 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Sketchbook diaries from August: in which the toddler turns two!!

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Sketches of toddler's second birthday celebrations - owl-shaped chocolate cake, extraordinary number of presents (mostly owls), most of the family, pretty much all the potato-y/breadcrumb-y snacks you can think of (hash browns, waffles, crisps, fishfingers), slightly too much transport, an entire model village (Bekonscot) which the toddler is ignoring in favour of a broken drainpipe Sketches of toddler's favourite toy - the cardboard tube, which functions as a hoover, a trombone, a ball run, and an egg making device (roll the toy eggs down it to make them crack in a bowl at the bottom) Sketches of toddler's real (pronounced "riddle") birthday - watching Twirlywoos, to nursery with a caterpillar cake, to the pub for pizza and chips - but more importantly to the the big extractor fan and play with the hosepipe Sketch of toddler playing with cat-shaped watering can near garden tap. He's saying "you making lake"
January 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Sketchbook diaries from the summer (on this snowy day) - fallen tree, dentist, toys, still life with milk bottle

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Sketch of toddler in a sunhat and my mum playing next to a fallen tree - toddler is saying "owl nest tree fall down" Sketches of a trip to the dentist - I wake up to a cold and the world's biggest spreadsheet, then go to the dentist for 3 fillings. I'm dreading the needle, but then have a lovely doze during the actual filling process. Sketch of soft toys in toddler's cot: a rabbit, two octopuses, a marshmallow, two mice, a gorilla, an elephant, a stegosaurus and an owl Still life sketch - kilner jars of porridge and flour, empty mugs, empty milk bottle, and a fly in the foreground
January 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
More sketches from holiday to Lake District in June - memorable trips, garden activities, swimming in Windermere, (fairly traumatic) journey home

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Sketches of memorable trips: waterfall, ferry trip, jumping on drains; and memorable meals (mostly carbs): hash browns, chips, peach and coconut scone, whatever poisoned me yesterday (could have been huge lotus cake) Sketches of things toddler does in the garden: plays with hosepipe, points out nesting box, climbs "mountain" of steps, watering can, makes owl nests with sticks, puts sticks in sundials, crumbles pine leaves into scummy water, hunts for tiny snails, throws stones on his head Sketch of people swimming in Windermere - also sailing boats and ducks Sketch of journey home - toddler not keen on car and then throws up porridge and crips (thankfully mostly missing the hire car) - things get better with second breakfast of hash browns at Stockport station, playing with cement mixer in train corridor and I get to relax when he falls asleep on my lap; we get home and toddler says his longest even sentence ("more water big one") and I have a great sense of achievement at making it home!
December 16, 2024 at 10:36 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
October sketchbook: illness season strikes in earnest,with suspected scabies and a sick toddler (content warning for sketches of my itchy back)

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Sketches of the suspected scabies incident - I've got an itchy back (toddler is fine); doctor asks if toddler has been biting me and then suggest scabies (yuk!); I am distracted from work by reading about sealing everything in plastic bags; I cover toddler in cream while he's distracted by telly - it's surprisingly fine; I wash EVERYTHING on hygiene pluys setting and seal it in plastic bags Sketch (one of many) of sick toddler asleep on my bed Sketch of toddler happily wading through piles of autumn leaves (caption: "in a somewhat trying week of stomach bug/cold/scabies, a lovely autumn moment") Sketches of a troublesome evening: 7.20 exhausted toddler falls asleep on my breast; 7.30 I make TERRIBLE mistkae of trying to move him from bed to cot; 8.20 he is wide awake and wants to play "Reading festival" (where I sing "loud music" and we dance under a duvet tent; 9.47 I eventually stroke him to sleep
February 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Sketchbook diaries from June: music in the playground, Dentistry and Disasters, hyper in the museum, Christmas tree in June...

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Sketch of guitarist and trombonist in the playground (playing "if you're silly and you know it blow a raspberry"), surrounded by parents and kids with various instruments Sketches of "Dentistry and Disasters" - wake up very early to go to the dentist, only to discover that our appointment was 8.50 not 8.15 - S. is very patient and reads his booka about a "nornal bird" while my teeth are done. I get to use the "tiny air pipe" while the dentist counts his sixteen teeth. Bad news - I have to come back and have three expensive fillings - and then accidentally bite my mouth while eating a rice cake. Sketches of a tiring day - full morning's activity before 9.30 - hoovering, tv, garden in the rain; take toddler to museum where he plays with card rack and eats a brownie and then becomes very hyper; suddenly contract a cold while doing mortgage admin Sketch of garden - wooden chair, watering can, Christmas tree in a pot
December 11, 2024 at 10:10 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Sketchbook diaries from June: chaos with three small boys; travelling home from London; St Barnabas Jericho; a silly day

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Sketches of chaos with toddler and two other small boys - playing with bubbles and stones in garden, chasing toy cars around a rocking horse, watching telly, eating a lot of pasta Sketches of travelling home from London with toddler - he enjoys escalators and repeating "Euston Square" and train crisps - we reach home and both nap and then toddler demands a trip to the library - mainly running around but we do get some books! Sketch of St Barnabas church in Jericho Oxford against a blue sky with lots of dramatic white clouds - done in a pleasingly scratchy pen Sketches of a silly day - toddler wakes me up at 5.30 (shouting "down down down" - finally time to leave the house - and then I spend all day doing a stupid thing on a spreadsheet. I cycle up and down a hill to pick up a black board, retrieve toddler from a disco party at nursery, and then have an insight into my spreadsheet problem while breastfeeding at bed time.
December 8, 2024 at 10:31 PM