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61, ill-health retired from NHS; degree in English Lit; I love churches, historic barns, art, music, history & wildlife. My son Chris is a doctor in the NHS.

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A Twitter friend bravely announced that they needed "to be more Vorticist". Here's an opportunity, with a seasonal piece of - SYBIL ANDREWS – "Wings"; Linocut (1979). The horses have gone & gulls have descended en masse. 🍂

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So - today is & I am proud to present an elephant with cloven hooves. Those pointy ears are quite something as well! No wonder Mr Hare is leaping in the air with shock. Source: https://t.co/AkqzT0Jm6H 🐘🐘🐘

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- in four parts. For a fiercesome start, Agnes Miller Parker leads the way. "The Challenge", Agnes Miller Parker, 1934, wood engraving on paper, National Galleries Scotland. 🐾

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has dozed off in the heat. He boasts a slightly porcine curly tail & terrific tusks. Caption: Elephant inscribed SPODIUM I(D EST) ELEPH(ANTU)S. Source: Compendium Salernitanum. Italy, possibly Venice, 1350-137; M.873 fol. 80r.

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This series of farm scenes was never going to end well. Immediately the absence of any kind of struck me. Without firm feline leadership, the results are all too predictable - total mayhem by the time we reach the last layer of this 1878 Walter Crane illustration.

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You ought to set up If your pupils get anything wrong, you jab them sharply. They'll learn all the faster that way. Your graceful image conceals your severity as a teacher.

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When Lucy mentioned "A dream of toasted cheese" by Beatrix Potter, involving a Bunsen burner, I had to find it. Could it really exist? Yes! "A Dream of Toasted Cheese" was drawn to celebrate the publication of Henry Roscoe’s chemistry textbook in 1899.

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Spring fever; in my dreams, one day, I will see a hoopoe in real life. Meantime, Eric Ravilious does a marvellous job of presenting hoopoes to best effect in Gilbert White's garden.

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The wise hare (left) keeps a beady eye on the fox (or is it a wicked dog?) pretending to be an enfeebled old woman. The big bushy tail is a bit of a giveaway! Source: MS. Douce 366, f.89r.

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Some gaiety (left) as Edward Bawden welcomes in March, in 1930. I've never been too keen on Punch & Judy though (right) since coming across them in an M R James tale of great menace!

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