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Helen Day

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When I think of artist Rowland Hilder’s work I think of winter scenes of rural Kent.
But I also love his London landscapes

A bright moonlight night at Tower Bridge rendered sparingly in a soft purple palette.
The River Thames is busy with activity and Tower Bridge is open to let a ship pass under

December 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM

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Helen Day

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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 5
‘Snowstorm in a Pennine Valley’
Artist: SR Badmin

Aerial view looking down on a river running through a village. The focal point of the picture is a pink-painted inn on a stone arch bridge in a valley covered with snow.

December 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM

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Helen Day

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Everyday Ladybird things, (1954)
The unheated bathroom
Artist: H Woolley

A filled bath tub in a tiled bathroom. The bath has a green tinge to the water and a yellow rubber duck floats on top.

December 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM

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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 6
‘Lane in Winter’
Artist: Rowland Hilder

The early winter light over snow has created and almost apricot coloured sky. The country Lane is probably in Kent and we see a small farm yard with oast houses

December 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM

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Helen Day

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‘Evergreen’
Plants and how they Grow (1965)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt

A collection of different evergreen plants set in a snowy background against a yellow sky

December 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM

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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
Window 7
‘Frost’
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

A view over a ploughed field towards an ancient barn topped with snow.
There is a hard hoar frost tracing cobwebs and making the going hard for the corvids in the field

December 7, 2025 at 8:26 AM

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Helen Day

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The reluctant shopper, 1952

Artist: A Macgregor
(Jonathan’s Shopping Day)

A rather cartoon-like illustration of a sad looking rabbit wrapped up warmly in red raincoat and scarf huddled under an umbrella against the snow.
He is holding a big yellow shopping basket

December 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM

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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 8
‘Winter Farmyard’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt

On a snowy day, a small figure with his dog shines a torch as he walks past a snow-topped barn.
This barn has strong echoes of ‘the repair shop’

December 8, 2025 at 8:06 AM

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Helen Day

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He’s not the best-known Ladybird artist, but I do love Roger Hall’s depiction of Matilda escaping the siege of Oxford through the snow

On a snowy winters night, Matilda, in long white robes, looks back over the frozen River Thames towards the fire burning on the opposite bank

December 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM

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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 9
‘Evening Snow’
Artist: SR Badmin

A view over a rural scene dotted with winter trees, as the early winter evening casts a grey sky orange yellow, illuminating hard frozen ploughed fields

December 9, 2025 at 8:19 AM

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Mum's new dressing-table (1959) and mid-century design

The Party, 1960
Artist: Harry Wingfield

A small child admires her new party dress in the mirror of a chic late 50s dressing table

December 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM

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Helen Day

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This year, there’s a new activity associated with my calendar.
Each time I post an advent pic by Lampitt or Badmin you have to check the replies. Award yourself a point everytime someone mentions/references Bruegel. Good luck🙂

December 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM

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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 10
Artist: Ronald Lampitt

A family of five goes for a walk high up on the snowy Downs.
Dad is pulling a sledge and the family salute another family sliding down on a sledge, pursued by a dog

December 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM

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“The north wind doth blow”

Artist: Frank Hampson (1966)

A view down from high up in a wooden barn shows us a robin tucked up for warmth.
The view down onto the snowy street reveals a stage coach struggling through the snow pushed by its would-be occupants towards a village

December 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM

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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 11
‘Mam Tor’
Artist: SR Badmin

Finally-detailed, mixed-media illustration looking down into a valley under light snow and a blue sky

December 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM

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Pudding basin hair-cut and
snake belt.
‘Peter’, 1974
Artist: Harry Wingfield

An illustration of the 1970s version of the character Peter from the ‘Key words to Reading scheme’ wearing a striped T-shirt, jeans and, unlike his cricket-favouring predecessor, holding a football

December 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM

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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 12
‘December’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt

A view from inside a house looking out into a suburban garden in the snow.
The cheerful window ledge with Christmas cactus and cyclamen contrasts with the chilly scene outside, including birds at a bird table

December 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM

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‘The Shepherd’
The Story of the Motor Car, 1962
Artist: Robert Ayton

A farmer rescues a lamb from deep, drifting snow, aided by his border collie.
He heads back to his trusty Mark One Land Rover

December 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM

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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar
Window 13
‘Winter Lane’
Artist: SR Badmin

On a bright but sunny day, a snow-filled lane leads down towards a distant pond surrounded by rolling hills and winter trees

December 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM

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derek guy

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If you want to do something like this, why not buy a $150k home in a small town in Italy, France, Spain, or Mexico, instead of having nine people share one bathroom after they eat at a restaurant called "Stinky's?"

Someone on twitter writes: "You could move to Aplington, Iowa and get a job at the post office making $25 an hour to start, meet a nice girl at the First Reformed Church and take her on a date to Stinky's Bar and Grill, and get married and raise up seven children in this house but you will not do it." There's a screenshot of a Zillow listing showing a rundown 8 bedroom, 1 bathroom home for $95,000.

December 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM

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derek guy

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A tailor once told me what he paid for a two story home in Palermo and it was shockingly low. You still get to be near great food, culture, and (if you care about this sort of thing like me) bespoke tailors. Certain areas are even walkable.

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