Showing posts with label Seeing otters in Gloucestershire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seeing otters in Gloucestershire. Show all posts

Monday, 15 November 2021

The 2nd edition of 'Funnily Enough'

 



Thirty years after keeping her original diary, Sophie has brought out a second edition of 'Funnily Enough', adding a few illustrations from a sketchbook kept the year before.

A flower is a flower but it was uncanny how many of the sketches threw light on themes within the book. Sophie was always yearning to travel more widely and explore southern Africa.

She had been falling asleep with the light on, even when she was working in London.

It's all too easy to overlook the important things in life or spend enough time with your family.

The sad thing was that she never realised how seriously she was being courted by eligible young men.


Distractions came in many shapes and sizes.


Urgent tasks superseded the importance of spending time with people.


and then she went down with Asian 'flu, which hung around for a long, long time.


But her friends never gave up on her.


She never stopped sketching, 


often drawing the otters,


And the good Lord gave her peace.


If you already have an ebook copy of 'Funnily Enough', you should be able to re-download this second edition free of charge. You can see inside the first few pages on the Amazon site here.

The new edition of the paperback is available from Amazon for £7.99










Saturday, 29 July 2017

The Diary of a Tame Otter


Daphne Neville, who is protrayed in 'Funnily Enough', is still working as a conservationist. You can hear her speak about otters and meet her hand-reared Asian short-clawed otter Rudi this summer. They will be appearing at various country shows, talking to farmers and land owners about how it is possible to encourage otters to return to rural watercourses and chatting to families about the thirteen different species of otters to be found worldwide.

Come to meet Rudi-the-Otter at:

Thursday 3rd August at the Honiton Agricultural Show in East Devon

Thursday 24th August at the Melplash Show near Bridport in South Devon

Saturday 26th-28th August at the Aylsham Show in Norfolk

Sunday 10th September at Frampton Country Fair in south Gloucestershire

Sat 16th and Sun 17th September at the Royal County of Berkshire Show near Newbury

26th Spetember to 1st October at Countryside Learning at Lee Valley in north London.

You can read about the adventures of Daphne's tame otters in her memoir 'Bee a particular Otter' available on Amazon