We helped this toad across the towpath on the narrow strip of land between the canal and the river. It was heading in the direction of a marshy field, the Wyke, on a meander of the River Calder.

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🎨❤️ Wavy Life by Squashua

“Down by The River”

Walking down the Thames towpath into Oxford, on a spring sunny day..

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Johan Barthold Jongkind
"Towpath near Overschie"
1865

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A quick sketch of the canal from the towpath near Silsden today. Pen, ink wash and watercolour. SOLD. Am i too late for 😂😂😊 et al.

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Johan Barthold Jongkind (Dutch,1819-91) - Jaagpad bij Overschie (Towpath near Overschie) 1865 oil on canvas Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid, Spain

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Johan Barthold Jongkind (Dutch,1819-91) - Jaagpad bij Overschie (Towpath near Overschie) 1865 oil on canvas Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid, Spain

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Done! I call this one "Priscilla: Queen of the Towpath". (At which I point I start to wonder just how obscure the reference is.)








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... and catching some autumn colour along the towpath

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A few more scribbles for the 'Wildlife along the Towpath' chapter of the up-and-coming 'Mouse Boat Guide t' th' Owd Lanky Cut', this morning. (Pre-order your copy now before the hyperbole inevitably gives way to the disappointment of the finished book!)

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A couple more from our 'Feathered Friends along the Towpath' series, this morning. There are brownie points available if you can tell me what they're called.

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I have a couple more 'Ornithology along the Towpath' scribbles for the twitchers and the scratchers this morning - on the top: the crow, easily recognised with its striped vest and straw boater (I've been studying Dumbo by way of research) and on the bottom: the robin,

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More wildlife along the towpath scribbles this morning.

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A couple more 'Wildlife along the Towpath' scribbles. Not that you'd see much at the moment that wasn't frozen solid.

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Another couple of entries for the 'Wildlife along the towpath' section. I realise I've drawn a hedgehog before, but this one's a different hedgehog...smaller, with a stripey bobble hat. I'm very thorough.

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Time for a couple more 'wild animals along the towpath' scribbles, featuring a cow in wellies and a newt, doing what comes naturally to newts.

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