I met Jane Fryer the local artist today to look at her illustrations for my new story currently called “Pig the Legend”. There are great and have captured the characters well, you never know I might put one in a future blog to whet your appetite! Still not sure about the title so watch this space! Jane did the illustrations for “Don’t Look At Me Like That”.

I promised you news of a Frampton visitor. Below is a picture I took on my phone of the Great White Egret in one of our village ponds. For those of you who are not sure about Egrets-the Little Egret is the one most of us will see across the country. They starting arriving into Britain about 30 or 40 years ago . Cattle Egrets common in Africa have started to breed in the South West – there are currently a few around the WWT in Slimbridge. Great Whites are now turning up in the South West I have seen four in the area over the last year. So for one to turn up on a village pond of all places is quite something! Apologies for picture quality but it was taken on my phone while sitting on my bike!