It's a difficult time for everyone, but as teachers we are committed to helping our students realise their goals... this will pass, we will work it out and you will achieve your goals. Thank you for this @sketchymuma • • • • • • #repost One for the incredible teachers out there trying to navigate the unknown. Thank you for what you do ♥️

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More sheep saga today, this is Olga... she is my least friendly sheep and if she know I want her in she's off like a shot...she is a Manx Loaghtan, rare breed... they are very alert always on guard she has been here for 10 years but has always maintained her distance... I have found them to be mostly trouble free, she has one lamb our lovely Luna, also very flighty despite being well handled as a lamb, I have only had the vet to her once for a persistent abscess which turned out to be a thorn...anyway today she was covered in blood all down one side of her face... for what ever reason she seems to have been fighting and has ripped one horn off(she has always been very bossy and someone has had enough I suspect). Despite all the blood she seems fine, bleeding has stopped and its clean but she will need to come in for further TLC tomorrow...she had beautifully balanced horns too 😥

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Also today its #nationalsparrowday 😊

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Happy equinox...more light than dark now... let's hope in more ways than one... . . #equinox #turningpoint

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It's difficult to know what to offer this world just now...but if you would like to read about Crows my march newsletter and new bird of the month is now out...(although i am afraid the newsletter is all out of date as everything is cancelled...) I thought we needed the wisdom of Crows this time. If you would like to read it, it comes as a link to a free download when you subscribe to studio insights via the link in my profile or using https://ift.tt/2OAUfYX. Just a monthly newsletter and (this month a 20 page) ebooklet pdf download no catches.

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This just feels appropriate at the moment... Balancing Ravens

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A bit more bird watching...not from today as I have been very busy putting in place systems to help our @cornwallcollege students work from home... one of my greatest pleasures when I am at home are the birds who visit... they have brought me though some quiet dark times in the past...I can highly recommend them... . . . Thank you to the @gardencrowd who supplied this particular seed mix suzysharpe_gc10 if you would like to try some at a discount 😊

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I know we are not supposed to get together but sparrows can... a lovely like gathering on my table today they really do love this new food... Thank you @gardencrowd I will be spending a lot more time watch the birds it seems

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This monoprint is one of my examples from a taster session I facilitated @cornwallcollege on Monday, it may be one of my last teaching sessions for a while...this is Herman a strong and solid Ram with a foot at each corner... he was part of my life many years ago... but he still feature in my work from time to time...

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This is a painting of my lovely Spoonie from a few years ago... today in our strange world I can only offer Sheep...but I find they have a calming effect on me just going about their business...even when Desmond gets really stuck in brambles he doesn't panic he just waits...but as soon as he is out he is off enjoying himself as if nothing ever happened... we all know this will pass... I cant offer any advice only to be like a sheep and wait until you can get out and have fun again...in the meantime I hope you stay well and kind ❤🐑🐑🐑❤

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My beautiful old girl... Spoonie enjoying the sun today... taking every moment as it comes... she has struggled over the years with the worst feet, abscesses, arthritis and many other ailments but she takes it all gracefully in her stride, seeming gratefully of our help and care, she enjoys her food and loves a good scratch...bless her ❤😍🐑😍❤

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Well this has to be a good omen..2 Robin's. @gardencrowd sent me some new bird food to try ...my little garden friends seem to love it. All their packaging is plastic free too...if I have to isolate I will spend a lot more time watching my garden birds... you can get a 10% discount using suzysharpe_gc10 😊

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My march newsletter and new bird of the month is now out. I thought we needed the wisdom of Crows this time. If you would like to read it, it comes as a link to a free download when you subscribe to studio insights via the link in my profile or using https://ift.tt/2OAUfYX. Just a monthly newsletter and this month a 20 page ebooklet pdf download... enjoy!

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I think we all need a little calm this morning, here's Walter he has such a sweet andy gentle nature... he was also inspecting my wall, but in a quiet and constructive way... you often dont see he on film clips usually because he us already by my side 🐑❤🐑

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And here is part 3...after putting his feet on it to test its integrity he jumped up onto the wall and looked over at the rebuilt part just as if he was judging my dodgy wall building skills...(harshly 😂) he then walked back and forth a few times ate a bit if grass off the top and jumped down to tell Walter what he thought... I do not think I past his stringent assessment ... oh well I will try harder next time! 😂😂😂

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This beautiful little wild corner in my veg garden was bathed in sunshine today... it's full of primroses and birds a Robin was singing inches away from me, I never 'manage' this area it does it all by itself... it gives me joy every day.

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This is my second picture of Desmond today, I was repairing a wall. Desmond had to ensure it was up to standard... in my previous image he was looking over at me watching my every move...in this one he has his foot on it...just checking its stable...leaving nothing to chance...he wouldn't like someone to get injured whilst having a scratch on the wall by falling loose stones now would he! 😂🐑😍

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My Desmond of the day... here he is inspecting my workmanship... I will tell you a little more later #lifewithsheep #desmonddiaries

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I have had a difficult day today... I heard hounds in cry down a valley across the road... it makes me feel sick that I welcome wildlife to my land but just over the wall it is being hunted... as I am sure you are aware it is illegal to hunt wildlife with hounds... this image is from a found media photograph from some years ago of a hunt monitor/Saboteur, at the time I was very interested in the aggressive appearance of these people coupled with their gentleness towards the animals they were protecting. When hunting was legal I had to tolerate it now I dont... it's illegal and needs to be reported...(for info if there had been a 'trail' set the hounds would not have been in cry) #keeptheban #huntsaboteurs

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!!🐑🖤GIVE AWAY🖤🐏!! in these challenging times let's share some sheep appreciation! I have a number of sheep greetings cards on my website if you would like to win a pack of all of them... this is what you need to do. 1. Go to my website...https://ift.tt/2vX6CcH link in profile too 2. Tag a friend who might like reading about my sheep 😊in a comment on this post 3. Say how many different sheep cards i offer on my website 4. Write the name/title of one of the cards. 5.share this post if possible to share the love of sheep! UK P&P will be free

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Poor Desmond has not learned his lesson and got stuck again...and then had to come in for a full bramble removal session... here he is with Walter and Phil going back to the field free of his shackles ❤🐑😊

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Starts this evening g at 5pm 😊 an Exhibition to Celebrate 125 years of the National Trust. CCA has collaborated with the National Trust at Trelissick to hold this inspirational show that will be exhibited in Trelissick House. Forty of CCA Members have engaged with this concept to produce some beautiful and unique pieces, covering all disciplines, from stunning lighting, quirky automata, shimmering glass to exquisite silver, textiles and ceramics. A feast for the eyes. The Private View will be held in Trelissick House on Friday 13th March from 5.00 pm – 6.00 pm and opens on Saturday 14th March. All welcome

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This I what I have done with some of the cuttings ... looks unsightly at the moment, just trying the cardboard to suppress weeds as I understand the dont like it much and will mulch over the top probably... I just used a screwdriver to poke a hole about 6inches deep and then pushed the willow into it... watch this space to see if it grows 😊🌿😍

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More Desmond tales today a few days ago I could see Walter close to Desmond like this, looking as if the were deep in conversation. Desmond in his usual attire of brambles, leaves and twigs... as I got closer I realised that there Desmond has become a mobile picnic and that Walter was stood munching on one of his brambles. I have no imagination I could not make this up but fortunately I dont have to 😂🐑😍

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Here is my Desmond of the day ... he has been much better at staying free, but he still gets a lot of inclusions and attachments. He runs off when we try to get them now though, It must hurt to have them pulled out, so today Phil had to trim them out with scissors... I wish I had seen him...it would have made a good photo... Desmond at the mobile barbers 😂

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Tonight is a Full Moon it is the Crow Moon or Crust Moon, Sap Moon, Sugar Moon, Worm Moon, Lenten Moon and a Supermoon! I was blessed with FOUR Ravens flying over this morning calling and chatting at they went... It was the more northern american indian tribes who knew this as the Crow Moon, when the cawing of crows signaled the end of winter. Other names were the Crust Moon, because the snow cover becomes crusted from thawing by day and freezing by night, or the Sap Moon as this is the time for tapping maple trees. The tribes more to the south called this the Worm Moon after the earthworm casts that appear as the ground thaws. Europeans called this the Lenten Moon, as this Moon corresponds with Lent, and the next full Moon, the first full Moon in Spring, occurs just before Easter.

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Starting a few drawings of Desmond and friends... its lovely to get to know them on a completely different level...I feel like I know them really well until I start to draw them... then i realise i dont. There is nothing like drawing to make you really see something. We never spend as much time looking as we do when we draw 😊 #lovedrawing #dailydrawing

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I am just getting some work together for another exhibition, this painting has been selected to take part... inspired by my quiet ancient Leicester Longwool cross call Spoonie she is such a sweet girl with the worst feet in the world but always cheerful and happy to see us especially if we have food ❤❤❤

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This is an Exhibition to Celebrate 125 years of the National Trust. CCA has collaborated with the National Trust at Trelissick to hold this inspirational show that will be exhibited in Trelissick House. Forty of CCA Members have engaged with this concept to produce some beautiful and unique pieces, covering all disciplines, from stunning lighting, quirky automata, shimmering glass to exquisite silver, textiles and ceramics. A feast for the eyes. The Private View will be held in Trelissick House on Friday 13th March from 5.00 pm – 6.00 pm and opens on Saturday 14th March. All welcome

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On #internationalwomensday who inspires you? @sportybethcf & @elliegregor have been my inspiration since they were born ❤❤❤ but all women who do not define themselves by limitations of gender or blame others for their failings but try always to be true to themselves and as strong, unique, capable and independent as they can be... doing what they can every day to make the world just a little better than it was yesterday.

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Well Walter has stolen the show from Desmond today, so here is a little sketch of him... I will tell you a little more about this loveable always hungry and very affectionate little chap and his amusing antics a little later #walterthesheep

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Norhing gives me more pride or a greater sense of achievement than hearing my daughter talk of me as imspiational! Especially on #internationalwomensday ❤❤❤ #Repost @gilliannair • • • • • • BBC Radio Devon Last night we presented an International Women’s Day special on BBC Radio Devon. 3 hours of chat and brilliant music 🎵 We were joined by Beth and Ellie from SAS Who Dares Wins and were also lucky enough to have a call from Caroline Beazley who sings in the Invictus Games choir. Thank you so much to @bbcradiodevon for having us and to @elliegregor @sportybethcf and @caroline.beazley for being part of the show, we loved every minute. Obviously a personal thanks from me to Alecia for being the most fabulous co-host, not just on our podcast @wildonespodcast but now on the radio too! ❤️ You can listen again online now 📻 🎵 🎧 🎙

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So here is a little update on Desmond and friends... these naught boys bully the horses and take their food, pushing them out of the way and refusing to let them back to their buckets. So we had a bright idea... raise the buckets so that the boys (Walter & Desmond) can't reach. Yesterday however Desmond decided that he likes a challenge and dosent like to be defeated by anything, like the rest of the family he is very determined...(see this years SAS who dares wins for further evidence 😂) So climbed up the wall (not an unusual place for him I admitedly) and leaned into the bucket...🤦‍♀️ I seem to spend my life trying to out wit the creatures and failing!!! 😂😭😬

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Today my bit of cornwall is windy it is whistling around the house and Saus is scared, her highly sensitive collie hearing knows it's really bad out there! Sometimes our mind plays tricks on us... and on Saus too... bless her.❤ F.E.A.R. False Evidence Appearing Real.

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Here is my Desmond for today sketch quickly last night... he needs a sparkle in his eye I think, he always has that... I have some news about his antics later but I have no photo to share so I will need to draw him up to no good before I can tell you 😊🐑❤

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I have to share this news... it's been a very long time coming... 'Government finally concludes that badger culling is not the solution to lowering TB in cattle' @badgertrust You can also read more about it in @thewildlifetrusts feed 🖤🦡🖤🦡🖤🦡🖤

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Here is my Desmond of the day... quick sketch with brambles 😊

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Gool Peran Lowen! Happy St Piran’s Day! "The heathen Irish tied him to a mill-stone, rolled it over the edge of a cliff into a stormy sea, which immediately became calm, and the saint floated safely over the water to land upon the sandy beach of Perranzabuloe in Cornwall. His first disciples are said to have been a badger, a fox and a bear" "He landed in Cornwall, and there established himself as a hermit. His sanctity and his austerity won for him the veneration of all around, and the gift of miracles, with which he was favoured, brought many to seek his charitable aid. He was joined at Perranzabuloe by many of his Christian converts and together they founded the Abbey of Lanpiran, with Piran as abbot. St Piran 'rediscovered' tin-smelting (tin had been smelted in Cornwall since before the Romans' arrival, but the methods had since been lost) when his black hearthstone, which was evidently a slab of tin-bearing ore, had the tin smelt out of it and rise to the top in the form of a white cross, thus the image on the flag" carving by violet pinwil in truro cathedral . . . #stpiran #stpiransday #cornishsaint

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Here I am minding my own business repairing a wall and look who crept up behind me to eat my hood!!! 🤦‍♀️ good lord Desmond! I think he has the wrong idea about food! Bless his little socks 😂🐑😍. . . . . . . #desmondthesheep #countryside #countrylife #farmlife #countryliving #joyofsheep #sheep #shetlandsheep #animalassistedtherapy #sheepofinstagram #lovesheep #naturetherapy #wellbeing #smallholding #onthefarm #desmonddiaries #desmondandfreinds #anthrozooology

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Another of my war pigeons whilst I get ready to pull my March Bird of the Month together... I should have the new one out by the end of the weekend so if you want this one be quick!. Its free of charge when you subscribe to studio insights via the link in my profile or using https://ift.tt/2OAUfYX. No catches just a monthly newsletter and a 16 page ebooklet pdf download

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Something a little different for the exhibition at @nttrelissick magnolia in oak ink 😊

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One of lovely gentle Walter too...his ears are a bit squashed in though and still the light is bad for photography!

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This one was a bit more fun...dreadful light for the photo and I need to work bigger really...these are just the beginning...maybe i could draw a Desmond a day 😂

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HELP! A little sketch of Desmond stuck in a bramble with such a sad face ...bless him ... even though I know he is out I didnt like drawing him stuck he looked so helpless ☹

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Time to make some more ink 😊

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Some of my book pages will be drawn with oak gall ink... but I am running out and will need to make more very soon! I hope to run a workshop in may using naturally sources materials... if you would like to join me you can sign up to my studio insights to be he first to hear about them.

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The beginning of a book cover for the @nttrelissick exhibition to celebrate 125 years of the @nationaltrust 😊

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Excited to get a parcel from the @gardencrowd just love their logo... you can see in my stories later what lovely things they sent me ❤

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Oh what a day... I think this photo says it all really... it's been quite mad! I have much to say but not tonight, all is well🤪 Desmond is learning new poses to keep his fans happy 😂😂😂🐑 #desmonddiaries

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Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus” “Happy St. David’s Day” My interest in St david began with the dove on his shoulder… maybe not surprisingly The most famous miracle associated with St David took place when he was preaching to a large crowd in Llanddewi Brefi. When people complained that they could not hear him, the ground on which he stood rose up to form a hill. A white dove settled on his shoulder. Legend states he was the son of Sant, King of Ceredigion and a nun called Nonnita. He was born more than 15 centuries ago on the Pembrokeshire cliffs during a ‘fierce storm’. He became a monk at a young age and founded a monastery where St David's Bishop's Palace and the Cathedral are now built. He was made an archbishop later in life and died on March 1, 589 AD when he was 100 years old.. His final words to the community of monks were: "Brothers be ye constant. The yokewhich with single mind ye have taken, bear ye to the end; and whatsoever ye have seen with me and heard, keep and fulfil." . #anthrozoology #stdavidsday

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