Terri Windling

This needs to be done because Sylvia Townsend Warner deserves all the remembering we can manage

Photograph: The River Teign, swollen with winter rain, as it flows from the high hills of the moor past our small rural village. (Devon, UK)

Good morning from Dartmoor, Charles. I hope you have a good week too.

Photograph: our young brown spaniel at the edge of a Dartmoor woodland.

Dartmoor Lottie says good morning to Bluemoose Lottie.

Photograph: A two-page spread from A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale, depicting Sneezle (a young root faery) on the left, and a woodland faery he encounters on the right.

The art in the book is by Wendy Froud, best known as a puppet designer for films including The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and Star Wars (for which she created Yoda). The faeries in the book are three-dimensional creations, photographed in settings designed by Wendy with Brian Froud. Truly magical.

Photograph: Our Sprocker Spaniel, Lottie, with a copy of A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale: the story of a young Dartmoor faery named Sneezle Boggs.

You can bid on this book from anywhere in the world; I'm happy to mail it out to the winner. (My own Sprocker, Lottie, is not included!) The funds raised by this auction will assist dogs in need of rehoming and/or medical care. For more info: sprockerassist.org. Please share to spread the word.

Photograph: Lottie, our own Sprocker Spaniel, with a copy of A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale. The art is by Wendy Froud, best known for her work as a puppet designer for The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, various Muppet movies, etc., as well as the creator of Yoda for Star Wars. Proceeds from this auction will help the good word of Sprocker Assist & Rescue. You can bid from anywhere in the world; we're happy to mail the signed book anywhere.

The Sprocker Spaniel Assist & Rescue's fund-raising auction is now live. I've donated a 1st edition copy of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S FAERY TALE: a children's book by me (story), Wendy Froud (art), & Brian Froud (design), signed by all three of us. www.jumblebee.co.uk/sprockerassi... (Lot #73)

Stained glass artwork featuring a running hare facing right in a crescent frame with floral border

English stained glass artist Tamsin Abbott, who is inspired by folklore and nature #WomensArt
#March1st #Spring

A fox with his nose in a daffodil and eyes closed bilssfully.

It's March 1st! Dydd gwyl Dewi Sant hapus -- Happy St David's Day to everyone, enjoy this fox enjoying a daffodil.

The furry Slovenian monsters who chase winter away [FREE TO READ] Every year, the weird, Womble-like ‘kurents’ gather in a medieval town in northeast Slovenia for one of the world’s most flamboyant carnivals

I can never recommend ignoring the news but maybe read this first as.ft.com/r/d2b6ae74-d...

I heard that Rosie was found and got home safely, but I don't have any more of her story than that.

Photograph of sign: MISSING OWL. Rose is a very young barn oe who has been missing since Wednesday afternoon. She has been spotted in Chagford and if you see her please call Martin at Heritage Falconry South West.

This sign was in one of our village shop windows some years ago. I snapped a photo of it, because there's a whole story in this picture....

Please stay safe, Gili.

Aw, thank you for your kind words, Joe. 🙂

The Essential Patricia A. McKillip by Patricia A. McKillip In “What Inspires Me,” Patricia A. McKillip’s WisCon 2004 Guest of Honor speech, and penultimate entry in The Essential Patricia A. McKillip, the award-winning fantasy writer said: “What I set out …

Here's an excellent, in-depth review of Tachyon's lastest collection of Patricia A. McKillip's short fiction. She is a writer whose entire body of work I consider essential reading -- but this volume is a good place to start if you don't know her work already. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Silence Like Scouring Sand One of America’s quietest places, and the valiant effort to keep it that way

From the archive, Kathleen Dean Moore goes on a hunt for something close to extinction: silence.

Master Class: Fairytales as Inspiration with Edward Carey — The Shipman Agency 1 Session: Sunday, March 8 11:00am-2:00pm ET Edward Carey How to reignite your imagination, sharpen your fiction, and give yourself permission to be braver and stranger in your writing through the ...

The wonderful Edward Carey is teaching a class on fairy tales as inspiration. Inspired by the one he used to teach at UT Austin's MFA. Perfect if you're not going to AWP or if you'll be home in time that Sunday March 8th. www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/mast...

An illustration of a man out walking his dog in countryside. The man & his chum walk along a track which cuts through flat farmland, ahead a clutch of trees with nests in the bare branches, corvids scattered across the grey and gloomy sky. A small patch of brighter sky in the lower right of the Illustration making a silhouette of the man and his dog. Black pen and black printing ink in a crosshatch technique, the ink rolled across the paper giving tones of grey for the sky. Small areas of blue grey watercolour behind the trees. Gloomy and atmospheric. It looks cold and wintry.

Original unpublished artwork for The Woman in Black.

£115 plus P&P

21.2 x 30cm

Email: nicktankardart@gmail.com

A black pen (in a crosshatch technique) and black ink (applied with a roller) illustration on off white paper of a man out walking in the countryside with his dog. Muddy tracks in fields lead towards a leafless tree in a hillside, the man and his dog pal in silhouette against a cloudy white sky. The branches of the tree hang over the landscape against a gloomy grey backdrop, crows in flight making their way home to roost. A cold and wintry scene, it makes you want to be indoors with a nice cup of tea.

Original unpublished artwork for The Woman in Black.

£100 plus P&P

21.2 x 30cm

Email: nicktankardart@gmail.com

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Jenny Bloomfield from The Chase. Frances Lincoln 5 Feb. Cumulative story of dogs chasing a ball through streets, parks & buildings, picking up objects on the way. Free and energetic but exact depiction of all the dogs @quartokids.bsky.social @jennybloomfield.bsky.social

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay. Spread by Ruth Brown from her gorgeous new picturebook Tick-Tock Around the Clock: A day in the life of a cat. Stunning draughtsmanship in a wonderfully detailed handmade scene of the cat going out into the garden, with squirrels, birds, mouse, dog. Scallywag Press 3 March.

I've already bought my membership!

Ancient by Luke Barley review – the secret history of Britain’s woodlands A former ranger tells the story of how the UK’s forests intimately shaped – and were shaped by – its people

Another one for my Reading List: 'Ancient: Reviving the Woods That Made Britain' by Luke Barley
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

I'm not planning any trips to the US under the current administration but I'm happy to support the WFC with a virtual membership. I'm still disappointed that I missed WFC in the UK last autumn due to illness. Joining online for this one is a safer bet, although I'll miss seeing colleagues in person.

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, sleeping with a smelly old t-shirt while missing the owner of that shirt. Heart-melting.

My husband is coming home tonight after two weeks away (he's been teaching puppetry in London), and that's going to make our dog Lottie INCREDIBLY happy. She's been dragging a ratty old t-shirt of his everywhere, cuddling it in her sleep. I can't wait to see her face when he walks in the door....

Photograph: Lottie, our young brown spaniel, dozing on the sofa early this morning. My husband is away from home and she's missing him. She's been carrying his brown t-shirt around with her all week, sleeping close to it while he's away.

Good morning from us!

Photograph: Lottie, the demon pup, at 10 weeks old. (She's now 3 years old and a complete delight.)

Good luck! We barely surived the puppy stage with Lottie; she was either fully On and causing chaos (all the hours that she was awake) or fully Off (asleep), with no settings in between. She eventually settled down and it was all worth it, but I'll never underestimate the work of raising pups again!

No, I'm sorry for tucking that information away! Sending you much love from misty Dartmoor this morning.

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, with her orange rubber ball.

That's so sweet. And so polite! We have a specific playtime for Lottie, or else she'd be asking us all the time. As playtime approaches, she brings the ball over and stares at us intently, just so we won't forget.

The info is in the photograph caption. 🙂

Photograph: Remedios Varo (1908-1953) and Leonora Carrington (1917-2011): Surrealist artists, close friends, and magic workers.

These extradorinary women could teach us a thing or two about magic.