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November 26, 2024 at 7:59 AM
megdunley.bsky.social
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July 8, 2026 at 5:38 AM
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
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
Sketchbook diaries from April: apple tree in bloom, boats on the river - then I got Covid - and the toddler found some pinecones

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Sketch of young apple tree in bloom plus a butterfly and a bee Sketch of several boats on the river - rowers going at it hard - and a duck Sketch of things in the kitchen (a plant, open tins of tomato, and cup of tea and half eaten digestive) - caption "Covid" Sketch of eleven pine cones, in black and white
November 17, 2024 at 9:44 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Toddler diaries from last Christmas: boxing day walk, freshly baked bagels, self portrait, and cousin times

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Sketch of toddler and his grandfather, feeding coots and pigeons under a yellow willow tree Sketch of trays of freshly baked bagels on a kitchen table Sketch of me in the mirror and toddler asleep on the bed (caption: 11 years of daily sketching - S. is feeling better but apparently hates the travel cot) Sketches of two toddler cousins - ignoring each other, co-existing, competing over a toy train, and collaborating to turn on the dishwasher
October 17, 2024 at 9:33 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Baby diaries from Spring 2023 - busy busy busy (and some peacocks)
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Sketches of busy day with the baby - most notably my terrible failure at mothering - accidentally making butternut squash pasta REALLY spicy - take it away from the baby and give him a banana instead Sketches of another busy day with the baby: visit two potential childminders, babies in hats, 2 hour nap, peas in béchamal sauce (redeeming myself after yesterday's culinary disaster) Sketches of baby busy playing (the scientist at work) Sketches of peacocks at Harcourt Arboretum
July 26, 2024 at 9:09 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Baby diaries from May 2023: innovative breastfeeding positions, lots of time outside, and the washing up fairy!
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Sketches of evolving breastfeeding positions - sitting in my lap, standing up, lying in the grass Sketches of baby and me spending lots of time outside - dogspotting in the park, Botanical Gardens, garden, playground Sketch of the baby hanging out in a friend's allotment with a bit rhubarb bush Sketch of my favourite person the washing up fairy* who comes in the evening and cleans the kitchen for me (*it's just me from the previous night)
July 31, 2024 at 8:33 PM
jentlywrites.bsky.social
Why is it always a weeknight… 🫠
I have the list antisocial job in the world. And also #SoloMum

This should be lots of fun, and I have massive FOMO.
April 9, 2026 at 12:11 AM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Baby diaries from April 2023: a trip to Wales with the family: part 2
#bannaubrycheiniog #breconbeacons
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A quick black and white sketch of a wall, some trees, and some mountains in the background (drawn while the baby was playing) A sketch of 3 adults reading on cosy sofas/chairs (the babies are asleep... for now...) Sketch of 2 babies, both wearing hats Sketch of baby's holiday highlights (peas, window seat, big floors, water play, naps) and mine (lambs, pick n mix, Welsh signage, fancy meal, break from washing up, naps)
July 24, 2024 at 9:06 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Baby diaries from April 2023: a trip to Wales with the family: part 1

#bannaubrycheiniog #breconbeacons #aberhonddu #brecon #hayOnWye #brynichAqueduct
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A sketched map of the family converging on Brecon in Wales from Oxford, London, and Manchester A sketch of mostly-food related activitiy in Brecon/Aberhonddu, including pick n' mix, coffee and chocolate shops, peas, and ice cream A sketch of Hay on Wye castle - some wall and an archway, with various pigeons and crows pecking around A sketch of the family (5 adults, 2 babies) walking across Brynich aqueduct - a canal that crosses another canal on a bridge!
July 22, 2024 at 9:30 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
Toddler diaries: lots of washing up, playing with cash register, old enough for tantrums?

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A sketch of a massive pile of washing up in and around the sink, in blue Sketch of the "washing up fairy caught in the act" (my mum at the sink) Sketches of the toddler playing with toys, including toy cash register (ding!) Sketch where I say to a friend "S. is not yet at tantrum stage, which is nice" - immediately followed by S. screaming about how he wants pizza box/knife, he wants bubbles (but only if he can hold the wand), he wants yoghurt but also not yoghurt, he wants to play with Henry the Hoover.
October 28, 2024 at 10:15 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Toddler diaries from January: the stair incident, fox in the graveyard, toddler in the bike trailer...

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Sketches of a day with toddler: woken up by being bounced on; pleasant trip to the playground; S. runs off in goldfish shop and falls down a staircase - but is astonishingly fine! Sketches of us spotting an early morning fox in the graveyard, and enjoying a sunset from the swings on top of South Parks Sketch of the bicycle trailer all ready to go (caption: going to try this tomorrow) Sketches of me putting the toddler in the bike trailer (he's deeply unconvinced), and managing to get to nursery and work and back with much faffing, but without any road accidents
October 23, 2024 at 10:03 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
Toddler diaries: highlights from museum of natural history, river sketching on day off (!), the boiler incident, and toddler playing

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Sketches of highlights from museum of natural history (from a toddler point of view): the floor, the stairs, the fire extinguishers, the safety cones, the card rack in the gift shop Peaceful sketch of narrowboat on the river, a bridge and some ducks Sketches of the Boiler incident - boiler broke and I try to fill bath from kettle - S. is fascinated (partly because it's a little like the plot of The Tiger who came to Tea) but won't get in it Sketches of toddler playing, including "reading" a book by saying "guwa gunwa gunwa"
November 9, 2024 at 10:21 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
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
kirstiejane.bsky.social
Christmas cake icing with Granny Sue.

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Mackenzie - a little girl in an orange hoodie - is rolling out marzipan on a kitchen table Mackenzie - a little girl in an orange hoodie - and Granny Sue - a white woman with light hair - are rolling out marzipan on a kitchen table. In the foreground is a Christmas cake glistening because we covered it in apricots jam! Mackenzie - a little girl in an orange hoodie - and Kirstie (but with her head cut off!) are adding icing snowflakes to the Christmas cake Mackenzie - a little girl in an orange hoodie - and Kirstie - a white woman smiling at the camera - are cutting out snowflakes from icing on the kitchen table
December 22, 2024 at 11:19 AM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Baby diaries from last summer: things baby eats, busy day, Magic Cafe, and talented baby

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A sketch of the things baby eats: pasta with tomato sauce, spinach tart, omelette, porridge, courgette, peas, carrot, flapjack, crumpet, white bread, banana, orange, strawberry, grapes, apple, rice cakes, water, breast milk Sketches of a busy day: shopping for bananas, tractor in the park, farm-tots, bumping into people at Florence Park, gay club, making spinach tart, visit neighbour, spinach for supper, bath and bed Sketch of baby happily playing with toys at a cafe Sketches of the baby's latest talents: clapping, understanding things, lightswitches, walking holding hands, building, using the potty
August 29, 2024 at 8:08 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Sketchbook diaries from July 2023: in which we travel up north for my brother's wedding!

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Sketch of ice cream stall in Nantwich, shaded by 2 umbrellas, plus dog resting under bench Sketch of eight black and white cows Sketch of my brother's wedding - my brother, his wife and their son, looking smart and smily! Sketches of "train baby rides again" - he enjoys train window, table and armrest. Things get crowded, but chewing my backback helps, as does smiling at the bearded man behind us and playing with a cup on the floor; then he does a massive poo at Banbury and goes to sleep in the vestibule
August 17, 2024 at 8:12 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Baby diaries from Summer 2023: fun with granny, the washing machine, the highchair disaster zone, and the baby happily playing on his own!

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Sketch of the baby having fun with my mum - playing with her bangles, playing with mud (possibly the dill mum planted), enjoying a pigeon more than anything else in the playground, eating chard tart Sketch of washing machine, clothes horse full of clothes, and various mess on the floor Sketch of high chair surrounded by a disaster zone of jettisoned pasta, peas, and spoons Sketches of the baby playing with various toys, including stacking rings and a fluffy stegosaurus
August 15, 2024 at 8:44 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Toddler diaries from last December: the chair incident, Science Oxford, more disasters and posting toys

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Sketches of the time my toddler fell off a chair and scarily bumped his head - but was then fine Sketches of Science Oxford - many exciting science activities and a really good cinnamon bun, but locker room is the star attraction Sketches of various disasters: a bad night, really wet laundry, toddler drops eggs on the floor, and I'm shortlisted in an art competition but embarrasingly all the other winners are schoolchildren Sketches of toddler's toys - "it's all about the posting toys at the moment"
October 8, 2024 at 9:34 PM
imogenfoxell.bsky.social
Sketchbook diaries: hanging out in my brother's garden, minimally successful swimming trip, Mary the bear, a big fan at our weekly playgroup!

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Sketches of toddler and baby hanging out in garden in sunhats, a sandpit table, and a smart-looking tabby cat Sketch of an attempt to take toddler swimming with a bird's eye view of a swimming pool - accidentally plunge into deep end, shallow end not much better, toddler calms down enough to tell me "it got water in it", and he enjoys watching the adult swimmers but concludes that it was "a bit scary" for now Sketch of my old teddy bear Mary in a blue sweater and shirt, leaning on some blue mugs next to a small blue and white pot Sketches of my toddler in a sunhat, rapturous at discovering a big fan at our local playgroup (along with a couple of sketches of other people's kids)
January 9, 2025 at 10:56 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