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Walking, running, sketching, cycling. My book: Sketching a Year in Lakeland: . Portfolio:

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@liziwake

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9 months

Thank you so much to Dave and Inspired by Lakeland for giving me to opportunity to create this record of a year in the Lake District. It’s been so much fun! 😃 🎨

@ByLakeland

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9 months

...And we're live. @liziwake 's superb 'Sketching a year in Lakeland' is now shipping. Her illustrative shapshots of Lakeland life not only celebrate the natural beauty of hill country, but also the quiet back lanes, the bustling cafes and our communities

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8 years

Grey squirrels, on the other hand, are maniacs behind the wheel 😱 #LakeDistrict

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5 years

@wmarybeard Wessex Exam Board GCSE History Q1: To what extent did Brexit contribute to the division of the UK into feudal kingdoms? (Note: write in both sides of the slate - the supplies from North Wales have been disrupted by a border dispute)

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1 year

Canal bridges are fabulous constructions 😃

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7 months

Away from the traffic trauma it’s absolutely stunning out in the snow. This was walking home from @Rydal_Mount Xmas Fair across the park. Magical.

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4 years

More tree doodles 🌳🌲

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7 months

Anyone fancy a nighttime walk in the snow with me? Yes? Come on then 😃⛄️😃 1/

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2 years

At last! The big reveal. I’ve been working on an exciting new project and now I can share a blog post revealing what it is…

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7 months

Ambleside is gridlocked this evening. I heard a bloke offering a lorry driver a cuppa as he said they could be stuck for four hours! It was obvious from the clear tarmac patches under the cars that they’d been stuck for a long time already. Please stay safe at home ❄️

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4 years

I can’t hear the birdsong over the traffic noise. I can’t bear this. Now I know what life could & should sound like it’s so so desperately sad that we’ve got to go back to this. And eventually I will have to get in my car & be part of it 😢

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5 months

Reflections in the ice. Grasmere tarn was partially frozen with glossy ice which mirrored the fells fabulously 😍

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2 years

Some places are truly idyllic. What an unexpectedly lovely day 😊

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1 year

Ready for the printers - to be transformed into a book. Everything suddenly feels very real 😊

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7 years

The Fairfield Horseshoe from Loughrigg. Bank Holiday and hardly anyone about off the beaten track. Even on a popular low fell #NotJustLakes

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3 years

Some tracks are so inviting 😊

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7 months

Now that’s what I call a glorious sunrise 😊

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1 year

Rydal Beck rushing under the bridge and past the Grot today. The noise & power of the water was immense 😃

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8 months

Can you see it? A weasel in the garden! 😃

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2 years

Words cannot describe the beauty of these early mornings 😊❄️

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3 years

Lakeland green slate carries the landscape within 😊

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2 years

Driving back from Rheged on the A591 past Thirlmere. Lots of flooding so care needed. Wild weather this afternoon ☔️

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2 years

Mum & Dad’s winter mountaineering kit - still in good nick. There’s even a decent pair of leather tricouni-nailed books hanging up ready for use. The axes are truly things of beauty 😃

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9 months

I signed my very first book today! I’m still amazed to find myself the author/creator of a book. If I pinch myself will I wake up? 🎨😊

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3 years

Sketching again….pleased with this one 😃

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7 months

Tonight’s walk home from @Rydal_Mount Christmas Fair. Snow may have prevented some people from coming but a huge thanks to those who made it on foot. And thanks to Rydal Mount for hosting & being so much fun 😃⛄️

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7 months

Last rays of light over the Fairfield Horseshoe. I love that pink glow 😊❄️

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5 months

How can we have reached a point where people are so wealthy that they can afford to abandon kit that once we would have valued and cared for because it cost us so much to buy?

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Second tent and its contents removed from the top of #Helvellyn in 2 days! Wes☹️ #leavenotrace

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4 years

Why have I never heard of this woman? What an incredible achievement.

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Minorities in Polar Research

4 years

"At every phase in your life, look at your options. Please, do not select boring ones."-Barbara Hillary Barbara Hillary (1931-2019) was a nurse, activist, two-time cancer survivor, the first Black woman to reach the North Pole, and the first Black woman to reach both poles.

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3 years

Lichens appear to be addictive 😱

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2 years

Went for a run. With interval training. It rained. Hard. Got back. Sodden. And then the sun came out!!!!😳🙄

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2 years

Gates are so inviting. This one led to the VERY STEEP path up to Loughrigg summit 😊

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7 months

Cheshire / Derbyshire border canals & hills in grey drizzly weather. Very atmospheric.

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2 years

Twitter has been (mostly) an amazingly positive place for me. I’ve made good friends and had opportunities put my way that would never have happened without connections made here - such as the chance to create a Sketchbook of Lakeland to be published in Spring 2023 😃

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4 months

Another drawing in my small sketchbook. The inspiration was a fabulous photo shared by @michlichen . Thank you! I hope I’ve done it justice x

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2 years

What a lovely walk today. Ventured over to Haweswater and walked over the Corpse Road into Swindale then back over Gatescarth Pass gathering source material for the book. The tree planting in upper Swindale is seriously impressive! Now reading @leeinthelakes book Wild Fell 😃

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6 years

I’m thrilled to bits to have an article about sketching and walking featured in TGO online. Exciting times 😃

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6 years

🖌🎨 Digital feature: Taking a Sketchbook for a Walk by @liziwake . Ever thought about sketching your walks? Here's why you should, along with some practical tips from getting started to drawing inspiration (pun intended) from other artists.

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1 year

A very varied day - started out in the freezing valley bottom, climbed into the warmth of the sun, descended into the frozen shadows of another valley before emerging back into the sunlight. All of it utterly magical 😊☀️😊

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3 years

Raindrops on bluebells. Almost more lovely in the rain ☔️

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6 years

Snow! Rydal, Grasmere & the path from Loughrigg Tarn to Ambleside. Very wet snow tho, & a bit too warm to last #LakeDistrict #NotJustLakes

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3 years

My turn to be engulfed in the best conditions this place has to offer! Just look at all that mist 🥰

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3 years

Another magical morning. The sea fret had invaded the land and the fells were just islands in the mist #LakeDistrict

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2 years

Come for a walk round Coniston Water with me…🏃🏼‍♀️

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4 years

Does anyone else feel sad sometimes because the more you know the less easy it is to enjoy simple pleasures like walking without seeing all that is wrong with the world as well as its loveliness?

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2 years

Homemade soup, sourdough bread, beeswax wrapping, ‘remote’ tarn, secluded sunny rock to sit on, occasional bird calling, solitude - what could be nicer.

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6 months

Sunshine! And blue skies! So appreciated after weeks of rain. And a walk up to another of my favourite places. I’d lost the sun below the fellside by the time I reached the bridge but the bracken was glowing in the late afternoon light & the sun found me again for the descent ☀️

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7 years

A lovely light in the late afternoon over the Langdale Pikes #NotJustLakes

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2 years

A few more from Borrowdale and Watendlath 😃☀️

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3 years

Ducklings! I heard an unusual clucking noise outside the back door & opened it to find a mother & brood of ducklings heading down to the local pond. And then discovered her nest hidden above the cellar steps - had no idea until this morning that it was there 😵

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3 years

Feeling glad to be among the fells 😃

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2 years

A very long day out - walk/jog from near Threlkeld to Ambleside over Clough Head, Helvellyn & Fairfield. Definitely a big day out 😃👍

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6 months

I treated myself to a wooden box today. I love wood (the slab of yew was a Christmas present from my lovely husband, bought at the @Rydal_Mount Xmas Fair) and I just couldn’t pass by this beautiful holm oak made by a local Cumbrian crafter, Jacqueline Duffield, and not buy it 😃

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2 years

Took myself off on a sketchbook walk today over High Rigg & down to Tewit Tarn & the stone circle. It was a bit chilly for sketching so this is a fast draw of Skiddaw.

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2 years

Chilly! Minus 6C when I set out. Could have stayed out all day (but work demands I return 🙄) ❄️

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1 year

Rain, hail & then snow! And no one else about on my run up into Scandale this afternoon - weird! 🙄🏃🏼‍♀️

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1 year

Why bother pouring down the beck when you can pour alongside the wall, over the wall, down the road? I wonder what is blocking this beck higher up so that the water can’t run down the gully?

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4 years

I think this is a Magpie Inkcap #fungus . Isn’t it stunning!?

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10 months

There couldn’t be a more stunning morning for a brisk walk up to one of my favourite places. So still and peaceful. No one around except the birds. I could have sat and soaked it up forever ☀️😊

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7 years

A lot of water fell overnight. Stock Ghyll #LakeDistrictFells #Ambleside #Cumbria

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11 months

The loneliness of the long distance runner - trying to force food down when my stomach was revolting. At Ambleside.

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Road through Ambleside at 9.30am today.

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5 years

Passing through passport control for the last time as an EU citizen made me feel such a deep disbelieving sadness. How can this be happening? 😢😡

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3 years

It may have rained a little…. @Rydal_Mount @CumbriaPR @LivingTLOL @Christopher_R

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3 years

I wept. Every few feet more dead bumblebees for the full length of this hedge. Was the blackthorn sprayed with something that kills bees? Why are they dying in their hundreds? #bees #dyingbees #pesticides

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2 years

It’s so sad to see an architecturally important building falling into ruin. That roof with the interlocking slate ridge is so rare now. In Troutbeck.

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6 months

What a year it’s been! Never in a million years did I ever expect to publish a book, let alone run (?) the Lakeland 50 or rediscover a joy in cycling. So thank you 2023. Here’s to a peaceful, prosperous and healthy New Year to all of you 😃🎉

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5 months

I’ve been struggling with motivation for over a year but the recent snowfall has prompted me to start a new sketchbook & play with graphite & coloured chalk again. Pleased with this of the dark skies above the snow from yesterday 😊🎨

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2 years

A BARN OWL just flew across the garden!!!!!!!!!! So close I could see its fabulous face & wedge shaped body. So white! So silent. So unexpected! It’s vile weather out there - this was an absolute fleeting treat 😃 🦉

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3 years

My favourite bridge 🥰

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6 years

Such superb snow conditions #LakeDistrict

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My favourite place looks wonderful whatever it’s dressed in ⛄️😃

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11 months

I’m still flying! All credit to @UltrPaul for coaching me to the stage where I could complete the Lakeland 50. If you’d told me 3 years ago,when I was unable to walk 50 yards with severe back pain & leg weakness, that I’d do this I wouldn’t have thought it possible #Lakeland50

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7 years

It's been a beautiful day.

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2 years

Squeezing through ‘Fat Man’s Agony’ below Side Pike - had to take off my rucksack to get through. What a lovely day to be out & about 😃☀️

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6 years

High Pike & Scandale. These conditions are fantastic #LakeDistrict

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6 years

The Struggle at Kirkstone Pass - children sledging. There was an abandoned car lower down blocking the road yet still there were people trying to drive up the road - even a Luton van!

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4 years

Not the most exciting of photos but they represent a wonderful ‘event’ - running a ‘not Parkrun’ with friends along the shores of Windermere. What a great way to start the day 😃🏃🏼‍♀️

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2 years

Wet, windy & misty over Wansfell this afternoon 😃

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4 years

Snow!!!!! Fairfield and its outliers draped in a light veil of white this morning after a clear moonlit night. Stunning 😃

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2 years

‘Air trees’ growing from the root ball of a fallen tree. Birch saplings - I wonder how long they will survive on their airy perch…

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2 years

I’m not quite as gung-ho as I used to be on frosty descents. Took me double the time to descend this compared with two years ago in perfect dry summer conditions. Lovely tho 😊

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6 years

Disappearing gates & stiles #LakeDistrict

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2 years

Another taster from the book project. As well as a visual and written journal of a year in Lakeland there will also be a series of ‘treble page spreads’ with a fold out sections with a theme. The theme of this one is…bridges @ByLakeland Does anyone recognise the bridge?

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4 years

A STOAT HAS JUST TAKEN A BABY RABBIT FROM THE BURROW IN OUR FRONT GARDEN!!!!!!! It ran off down the gravel path with it & into a neighbour’s hedge!!!!!!!! I didn’t know we had a local stoat!!!!! (This needs capitals & !!!!!!!!!!!) I’m SOOOOoooo excited 😆 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

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3 years

Twenty five miles of walking on the Wolds Way! If you’d asked me a couple of days ago if I could have done that I’d have shaken my head sadly 😅

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4 years

What an amazing day to climb Cadair Idris for the first time. Superb conditions, if a tad breezy 😃

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4 years

Doodling trees 🌳 #Sketching

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2 years

A few from a walk in Borrowdale in the sunshine ☀️

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3 years

Another piece inspired by @JoBeal4 ’s online Art Journaling course. I’ve really enjoyed this as preparation for a new project (exciting times) I’ve got bubbling away. This took quite a long time to create but I’m keen to take the ideas out on a sketchbook walk…😃🎨

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4 years

Time to write again. A personal response to this strange few months ⁦ @LivingTLOL ⁩ ⁦ @MeganRural ⁩ ⁦ @KatePounds ⁩ ⁦ @nicolawriting ⁩ ⁦ @onLoughrigg ⁩ ⁦ @alex_roddie ⁩

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‘You don’t know what you’ve lost till it’s gone’ – Lockdown Diaries

“Well you don’t know, do you?” “It’s in Leeds and Bradford now” “They should keep those cruise ships down there. They shouldn’t let them back up here” “You have to do that hand washing – all …

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1 year

Seems like chatting to folk has given me a bit of motivation to start painting again - that and the signs of spring 😃☀️🎨

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1 year

A ribbon of gold and steel. What a fabulous day ☀️😃

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7 months

Ambleside this morning as I walked over to @Rydal_Mount for the Christmas Fair which continues today for those who can get here fair ⛄️🎄😂

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1 year

I sometimes wonder if I’ve disappeared from Twitter - there’s so little interaction these days. Maybe it’s just me? 🧐

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1 year

Nearly there! Every season in the bag. Now there’s just the cover to complete…watch this space for the publication date. Exciting! 😃

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10 months

What a fabulous day for a walk over Loughrigg. Perfect weather, perfect temperature. Colder in the valley than the fells this morning. Felt like autumn is on its way (& Wol in his treehouse too 😃 🦉)

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4 years

This is learned behaviour. It needs to be unlearned. Football grounds, festivals, nightclubs etc can do this by stating that no one leaves the ground/site/building until all waste is in bins provided. Treating fans/revellers as children by clearing up after them needs to stop.

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4 years

Really? Beaches, cities, celebrations. What the fuck is going on?

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It really is beautiful 😍

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A Work in Progress! Getting started on an exciting new project - I’ll tell you more in the New Year…😃👍

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Sugarloaf Mountain #Wales dressed in winter. It's as cold as it looks!

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Hard at work on a grey day. The book will have fold out pages dedicated to a single theme - can you guess the theme for this spread? #sketchbook

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Rather a nice sunset over Fairfield tonight 😃🔥

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