Katy Emma Partridge

So very happy to have spent time today watching the house martins and swifts diving, gliding, and banking as they traced patterns across the sky outside my window. Bloomin’ gorgeous. #distractions #roomwithaview

@StephenMoss_TV Thank you Stephen :)

@KatyEPartridge Looks lovely Katy - well done!

My article and illustrative collage are in September's edition of Devon Life Magazine. It's all about the delightful Tiverton Canal Company who run one of the last horse-drawn barges in the UK. Such a wonderful experience to take a trip with them. @StephenMoss_TV

@RachelBurch2 Lane near Eggworthy 👌

It’s time to choose the July picture for my 2025 calendar, all profits will go to Tavistock food bank, #Devon #Dartmoor Kings tor view View near Ingra Tor Lane near Eggworthy Which one ? Comment to vote, ❤️.

David Bowie was born #OnThisDay 1947. In 1964 he (then known as David Jones) appeared on Tonight in his role as creator of 'The Society Of The Prevention Of Cruelty To Long-Haired Men'. Oh! You pretty things.

It 's that time of year again and the fly pasts are in full swing outside my window #swifts

I'm delighted to announce that Ten Birds That Changed The World has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2023 @wainwrightprize #JCWP23 #10YearsOfWainwrightPrize Huge thanks as ever to @broodoherty @DHHlitagency @lucymcrobert1 and all at @FaberBooks 1/3

@StephenMoss_TV @wainwrightprize @BrooDoherty @DHHlitagency @LucyMcRobert1 @FaberBooks Excellent! Well done Stephen 👏👏👏

Just when you think Suella surely can’t sink any lower …. Home Office buys tents to house asylum seekers theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/j…

A VISIT HOME A right-wing acquaintance - a man I have met just once before, during lockdown - comes to visit me. He says that the problem with Rishi Sunak is that his voice is too high. He’s not convincing as a leader. I say I can imagine him in a white coat, behind the counter of a pharmacy discussing haemorrhoid creams. My friend says the politicians with deeper voices do much better. It is unfortunate for people of the left that Keir Starmer sounds robotic and mindless, as if he were reading from a menu. My friend says that men with deep voices make for the best seducers. He adds that David Beckham’s voice undermines his masculinity, which is still considerable. As I try to fall asleep later, waking up approximately every twenty minutes, wondering if the clock has stopped, I consider all of this. The actor Brian Blessed, known for his booming voice, must be quids in, a master of the universe. My family and I have been planning a brief trip home this weekend. But the clinical nurse is adamant that a physiotherapist should visit my home before I do, to ensure, as he puts it, that the place is “safe” for me and my wheelchair. I wonder if this guy really has the right to tell me where I can and can’t go, after all I am not in prison, I haven’t been kidnapped. The following morning I’m in my wheelchair and Isabella pushes me out of the hospital and across the road to the bus stop. Almost straight away a bus comes, its ramp slides out I’m shoved on. Ten minutes later I am on the Shepherd’s Bush road where Tracey and the dog Cairo meet me. This is the first time I’ve seen Cairo since my accident. He is quite big and bouncy, and I wonder if he recognises me; after all he loves everyone. Together we walk down the familiar street towards my house. It has been eight months since I’ve been here. I didn’t want to become too upset, and so I tried imagine I’d been away on a long holiday. Isabella and Tracey push me into my house and Carlo joins us. Thankfully the place is the same, except that I am at a lower angle; I can’t get an overview as I could before. The chair is uncomfortable, and I know I won’t be able to stay long before I have to go back to bed in the hospital.  I am glad Isabella has been living here, although she has allowed  the garden to become overgrown. In another life I would be out there with a machete, but she loves it this way, where she entertains foxes, birds and squirrels. We have lunch and sit together with the dog. I wish I could go upstairs and see my study again, and the bedroom, but that is impossible. We wonder what adjustments will need to be made to the house, for it to become habitable again by me. On Sunday Isabella and Kier push me to the Thames, near Hammersmith Bridge, and we walk along the riverside path, up to the back of the River Cafe. I’ve lived in this area, around West Kensington and Barons Court, since I was a student in 1976 and have cycled this way scores of times. Kier says he remembers long rides with me as a kid, and Isabella and I used to walk the dog along the river path. The dog was more of a menace then, and loved to take a dive into the Thames, and it was always a lot of trouble to persuade him to come out, covered in thick mud. In fact he was a menace all round. One time, while charging across Ravenscourt park, he tore a woman’s hijab from her head and ran off with it in his teeth; another time he stole a blind man’s cane. He still steals the balls of other dogs and can cause mayhem during picnic season. I’ve started to have very long, lurid and convoluted dreams. They are like novellas. A friend suggests this may be a side effect of the antidepressants I’m taking. The other night I woke up in a cold sweat yelling my head off, dreaming I was being swallowed by a snake, and a worried nurse came into my room and started asking me questions which would assure her that I hadn’t lost my mind: where was I? What was my name? and who was the Prime Minister?

A #jerseytigermoth visited my house today, flashing its luscious orange underwings as it went on its way

@CaroGilesWrites Happy Birthday Caro 🎉🥳🎂🎁🎈🎊😘

It’s my birthday and I keep thinking how much has changed in the last few years. I’m the same woman but different. Different family set-up, different name, different job, different dreams. It’s taken a while to reframe the dreams but I’m getting there ✨🌙✨

We will be doing a very limited special edition signed by Michael prob 100 copies. Watch this space....

@NearbyWild @Naturalcalendar @patrick_barkham @bigmeadowsearch Very helpful pictures thank you!

@KatyEPartridge @Naturalcalendar @patrick_barkham @bigmeadowsearch Definitely a Meadow Brown. Here's a Small Heath which is a smaller butterfly than a Meadow Brown and has distinctive white patterning on the lower wing.

Can anyone help me with this id please? Dozens on heathland at Wellington Monument, Somerset today - barely settled, wings always closed … @naturalcalendar ⁦@patrick_barkham⁩ @bigmeadowsearch #meadowbrown or #smallheath

@elgeeko1506 @Naturalcalendar @patrick_barkham @bigmeadowsearch Thanks Vanessa 😊

@KatyEPartridge @Naturalcalendar @patrick_barkham @bigmeadowsearch Size is key - but definitely a Meadow Brown 💚

@bigmeadowsearch @Naturalcalendar @patrick_barkham Thank you for your help!

@KatyEPartridge @Naturalcalendar @patrick_barkham Looks like Meadow Brown to me and probably a male as there isn’t much contrast on the underside

@Tazzyb @Naturalcalendar @patrick_barkham @bigmeadowsearch Thank you so much for this

If you’re anywhere near Balranald today and love nature, this is in the ‘unmissable’ category. 🌿✍️

@darkangelraine @amy_historia @HachetteKids This looks amazing 🖤

Can I just say how THRILLED I am that @amy_historia’s Storyland is getting a children’s edition? I got lost in so many of the wonderful myths and legends in the adult edition so I’m so pleased that another generation will get a chance to be enthralled as well! 😁 @HachetteKids

@CathCourtenay @StephenMoss_TV Thank you so much Catherine

@KatyEPartridge @StephenMoss_TV It is a lovely piece of writing Katy and the added bonus of a beautiful collage. Thank you!

Enjoying July’s issue of Devon Life with my morning coffee and sooooo pleased to find there my own article and collage featuring the charms of Budleigh Salterton. British seaside at it’s best. @devonlifemag @cathcourtenay ⁦@StephenMoss_TV⁩