A Farmer's Daughter

I love these drawings of a pheasant and a partridge by Helen from A Farmer's Daughter. Buy them as prints here.

Mark Hearld for Tate

I think this might be my favourite Tate designer collaboration ever. It's from Scottish artist Mark Hearld, whose work is inspired by the British countryside. The range includes bowls, plates and cups produced for Mark by Burleigh, lovely hardback notebooks, and a set of utterly charming greetings cards that are the kind of thing I love.

Edward Lear prints

It seems I have a thing for drawings of birds at the moment; I'd love to own a pair of these prints of illustrations by Edward Lear available from V&A Prints.

Coooo cooo cooo, coo coo

There was a wood pigeon cooing from the neighbour's rooftop this morning, and I turned off the radio and flung the window wide open to listen to it. Wood pigeon calls always remind me of Hans Christian Anderson fairytales - The Last Dream of the Old Oak or The Little Robber Girl. I know pigeons are everywhere in London, but somehow their coo is completely transporting. For a moment or two I'm not in our flat in Shepherds Bush, I'm in a stone cottage deep in an enchanted wood somewhere.