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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘Life in the Corn’ (Shell Guide, 1956) Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton

The unlikely quantity of flora and fauna crammed into this picture of a gap in a cornfield is the inevitable consequence of an identification guide captured in one image. Rabbits, game birds, moles etc rub shoulders amid a festival of wildflowers.

DawnWitneyWriter @dawnwitneywriter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Finished reading Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen. I've seen all the films & TV adaptations but with the possible exception of the 1995 BBC mini-series, they none of them do this book justice. It's hard to imagine Ms Austen struggling to find a publisher. If I had to leave a review it would be 5*

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DawnWitneyWriter @dawnwitneywriter.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Before sunrise I had this adventure. Some tit on the allotments shut a Tit in the toilet overnight! 🤣🤣🤣 He was very grateful to be released

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DawnWitneyWriter @dawnwitneywriter.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

If you like your heroes strong and silent, letting actions speak louder than words then Raven Purfoy is your man! If we're lucky, the author might smile on us and show us his face from a drawing she commissioned 🤞

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DawnWitneyWriter @dawnwitneywriter.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Enjoying a bickie break on the #allotment Took him awhile to give me 'sit' and then facing the wrong way 🤣

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Ladybird Book of Trees, 1963 Walnut and Dogwood Artist: SR Badmin

The walnut tree is in the foreground of this illustration, which focuses on the thick trunk and gnarly bark. The dogwood is in the background in a meadow behind a five bar gate leading to distant hills

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DawnWitneyWriter @dawnwitneywriter.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Not sure Johnny approved of the 2:45am alarm, but worth it to see the Buck Moon in one direction and the sun rising in the other #allotmentlife

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

‘The witch’s garden’ (Rapunzel, 1968) Artist: Eric Winter

A beautifully tended garden with mature, densely planted flower beds around a neatly mown lawn in mid-summer.

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DawnWitneyWriter @dawnwitneywriter.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Set alarm for 3am to get to allotment early. Breakfast break watching the sunrise

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

And so begins another week to fill with meaningful activity 😊 Artist: Harry Wingfield

A mother is using her initiative to entertain a toddler. The child has a home-made washing line and the mother holds a bowl of empty pea pods which the child is, with great concentration, hanging on the line.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Robin’ Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton Song Birds, 1974

In the foreground, a robin puts his head back to sing, perched on a garden wall. Behind the wall is a large lawn, trees, gardens and some large, comfortable- looking houses

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

The height of refinement, 1977. (And apparently still on sale today) ‘Cooking’, 1977

Photograph showing a child using a hand whisk to whisk up something in a bowl while another child looks on. A box of dream topping stands proudly on the worktop

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Experiments with ‘Invisible Ink’ Martin Aitchison (1967)

An illustration in four panels showing, in the first panel, a girl reading a ladybird book to find out how to make invisible ink. In the next panel she makes it and then writes something and finally, with a friend, she tries to read it.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

1970s picnic Artist: RobertAyton (Talkabout Holidays, 1977)

A family of four are picnicking in 1970s style, in pretty countryside next to their Ford Anglia, with a picnic blanket, thermos flask of tea and (probably) egg and cress sandwiches

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things. The best seat on the bus (1964) Artist: Harry Wingfield

Two children sit at the top of a double decker bus.
They are in the very front seat and the boy is pointing to something outside the window straight ahead

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Ladybird book pictures on request. ‘Elf-made shoes’ The Elves and the Shoemaker Artist: Robert Lumley

An elderly shoemaker looks at a pair of pretty pink boots that have arrived ready-made on his workbench, and he scratches his head in bafflement

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Other work by the Ladybird artists. ‘A lane in midsummer’ (1945) Artist: SR Badmin

A finally detailed mixed media illustration of a country lane.
A mother and two young girls are intensely focused on foraging and picking flowers from the impressively varied hedgerow.
In the foreground, the sprinkling of red poppers may hint at the date of the picture

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

The modern world in old Ladybird books. Eating on trains, 1974. Artist: Frank Humphris

In a dining car on a train, a smartly dressed couple make their selection from the tray held by a liveried waiter with very sharp parting

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Other work by the Ladybird artists. County Wicklow, Ireland Railway poster. Artist: Ronald Lampitt

A view down into a densely wooded valley surrounded by rolling hills in many contrasting shades of green.
The focal point is a bridge over the river leading to a small church and a cluster of houses

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘The Swallows’ Rendezvous’ (1937) Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

An engraving or scraperboard illustration of a swallow with open wings just landing on a telegraph wire, where other birds are beginning to collect

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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Reading the electric meter ‘Public Services: Electricity’, 1967 Artist: John Berry

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

When it all went wrong for the ‘Gingerbread Boy’ (1966) Artist: Robert Lumley

At the edge of a river, a fox tosses the gingerbread boy up in the air and then opens his mouth, ready to snap

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Ladybird books in the spotlight. ‘Garden Flowers’ (1960) Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton

The front cover of the book, showing the title over an arrangement of lupins, wallflowers, nigella, and other summer border plants

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DawnWitneyWriter @dawnwitneywriter.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

#rain on a leaf, flowers and the web-spinning caterpillars are emerging #norfolkcountryside We had early morning rain!

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Pictures that explain things Nuts, bolts and screws Artist: Gerald Witcomb (Metalwork, 1973)

A diagram showing and naming a range of different types of bolts, nuts and screws

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

‘Evening light’ The Farm, 1958 Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Under a mackerel sky, two birds fly above a small farm yard. In the foreground, we see the long shadows cast by the evening light.

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DawnWitneyWriter @dawnwitneywriter.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

One of the things I love about #writing is spending hours crafting your opening sentences. Then you leave the manuscript alone for a few (8) weeks, and when you read them again you see all the words that don't add anything and can be deleted!

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DawnWitneyWriter @dawnwitneywriter.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

My gorgeous #amaryllis is flowering for the first time in 10 years. Bought as a Xmas gift by my late sister-in-law, it stopped flowering and began making bulbs. Two of them have flowered together. What a wonderful way to #remember her

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

One of my treasures: Original artwork from ‘The Party’, (1960) Artist: Harry Wingfield

A framed picture of some children at the end of a party.
Boy and girl in smart coats leave the party as adults come to collect the children

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Other work by the Ladybird artists. ‘The walled garden’ May, 1958 Artist: Ronald Lampitt

A serene illustration taken from a 1958 calendar showing a lady in a yellow dress going to water the planters and beds of an extremely colourful and well-organised garden

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

The modern world in old Ladybird books. The radio ham (1968) Artist: Robert Ayton

The radio enthusiast, in dark trousers and a white shirt, with a neat side parting in his dark hair is engaging enthusiastically over the airways. He is surrounded by the boxes, panels and buttons of his hobby.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Buttercup, Meadow Cranesbill, White Dead Nettle ‘Wild Flowers’ (1957) Artists: EdithHilder Rowland Hilder

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘St Michael’s Mount’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt

Colourful and slightly stylised view looking down on the Mount, surrounded by sunlit water.
Illustration comes from a railway poster produced by the artist in the 1960s

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I’d almost forgotten about those packets of “gummed coloured shapes”. (1963) The next best thing if you didn’t have Fuzzy Felt (From Treasure Magazine)

A feature from the magazine for young children suggesting ways that the shaped paper pieces could be put together to make simple designs in bold primary colours

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Pictures that explain things. ‘Classical mime in ballet’ Artist: Martin Aitchison

An illustration showing a ballerina demonstrating 12 different mime poses and the emotion they represent

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield 'Keys' (Second Picture Book, 1970)

A photo realistic illustration of five metal keys of different shapes. Four of them are on a keyring and one is loose.

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Rosie Fiore @rosiefiore.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

‘Horse chestnut’ Trees (1963) Artist: SR Badmin

Mixed media, finally detailed illustration of a horse chestnut tree standing in the grounds of a large house. In the foreground we see the leaf and flower of the tree

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Here in Ladybird Land there’s a bit of conflict brewing between those who feel it’s ‘May Day’ and those who feel it’s ’Star Wars Day’ Artist: John Kenney