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Rosie Meddon
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Author of historical sagas, lover of the countryside, often to be found on my North Devon allotment.
The first book in my new WW2 trilogy, Julia’s War, is published by Penguin Michael Joseph.
Find out more at rosiemeddon.com
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Fresh but invigorating on the North Devon coast this morning.
A view across a rocky shoreline, containing an oblong seawater bathing pool, and on over a wide sweep of sand to the white-capped surf of the falling tide. An almost completely clear wintry blue sky is above. A view out over a shoreline, part damp sand, part rocky, to the breaking waves, with pale grey cloud on the horizon and aircraft con trails across the clear blue above.
December 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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The garden weather station is reporting 10C outside but there’s a stiff easterly wind making it feel considerably cooler.
The dawn sky was very colourful.
A high bank of heavy grey-purple cloud over a break just above the horizon, lit up orange just ahead of the dawn. At the bottom edge of the frame is a silhouette of rooftops and winter-bare trees.
December 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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We have a forecast for hazy skies and breezier conditions later. I think this cloud, arriving from the west, would support that.
Dark trees silhouetted against a bank of high pale pink wispy cloud with pale blue dawn sky behind.
December 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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A brief pastel coloured dawn ahead of sunrise at 08.12 this morning.
Just eight days now until the shortest day.
The sky to the east at dawn. A clear pale blue sky with a soft yellowish orange band at the horizon, behind a line of trees silhouetted black.
December 13, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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The redcurrant bushes on the allotment are getting a bit ahead of themselves.
Good to have been able to do some weeding and tidying up on three mornings this week.
Close up photo of green buds on brown twigs of a redcurrant bush against a grassy green background.
December 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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This morning gibbous moon, showing 64% of her face.
Tomorrow, the third quarter phase begins.
#moon
The bright waning gibbous (almost half) moon against a dark early morning sky.
December 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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In the last few days, at 03.30, somewhere close to my bedroom window, a robin has decided to ditch his melancholy autumn lament and break into his spring serenade. As we’re still 16 days from the winter solstice, he clearly understands the benefits of being an ‘early bird’.
A robin perched among laurel leaves
December 5, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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There’s rain on the horizon.
A view out to sea with messy waves, a mixture of high streaky white clouds above and dark rain clouds on the horizon.
December 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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One stage at a time, the May 2026 release of Isabel’s War - part two of my Fairlight trilogy - draws closer. For the first time today, I work on it on paper.
Let the proofread begin!
#amwriting #amediting #historicalfiction 📚
The paper manuscript of a novel, entitled Isabel’s War, on a desk.
December 2, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Busy on the beach this morning. Wonderful weather for a walk.
A wide expanse of dry sand ahead of the rising tide. A partly blue, partly cloudy sky, and surf breaking to the left. Tiny figures of people walking, lots with their dogs.
November 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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We were so lucky with the weather for our trip to RHS Rosemoor Glow last night - unexpectedly mild, dry and calm.
Some lovely colours beautifully accentuating the fine and statuesque trees.
A rainbow effect of illuminated trees against the night sky, seen across an open area of grass. A field of coloured pyramid lanterns backed by illuminated trees against the night sky. Bare birch trees illuminated jade green, alongside ornamental vertical lights, all reflected in the water of the lake. The bridge over the stream garden, illuminated purple, with the surrounding trees and shrubs lit up in various bold colours.
November 29, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Very messy surf conditions on the North Devon coast this morning.
November 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Not what yesterday’s forecast suggested: clear sky and hard frost.
A pre sunrise dawn sky: silhouetted line of trees in the foreground; low band of orangey-yellow sky immediately above; pale blue heavens with traces of purple-grey clouds in the upper half.
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Waxing crescent moon - at the moment the sun set.
23.1% illuminated this evening.
A pale finger nail crescent moon against a uniformly soft blue evening sky at sunset.
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Clear enough this morning to see Lundy on the horizon.
Staring out over a calm sea to the low mass of Lundy on the horizon, beneath a crisp wintry blue sky with the odd wisp of cloud.
November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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-2C and a hard frost in North Devon thus morning.
On the plus side, we have a glorious crisp day ahead.
An unbroken dawn sky, fading through pale orange immediately behind the tree line up through gold to deep blue.
November 21, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Cold and showery start in North Devon this morning.
A mainly cloudy sky with patches of pink , gold and pale blue among the grey. A silhouetted tree line is in the foreground.
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Lovely and fresh on the North Devon coast today but also rather chilly.
A vast expanse of golden brown sand with a narrow strip of mid blue sea visible beneath a bright blue sky with a strip of puffy white clouds. Looking along a wide sandy beach towards low hills on the far side of the two rivers estuary. The sky is pale blue with fluffy grey tinged white clouds.
November 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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The last 8%: our waning crescent moon this morning, with Spica to the left of it in this picture.
A black night sky, around 06.30 GMT, showing the waning crescent moon and the tiny white dot of Spica, in the constellation of Virgo, to the left of it.
November 17, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Just before 10am at Westward Ho! this morning. Although it escaped the worst of Storm Claudia, tons of pots from the top of the pebble ridge have been carried over the top onto the footpath.
November 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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A very bold rainbow just now.
The brightly coloured arc of a rainbow, meeting the ground at the right hand side, against a cloudy grey sky with a line of trees in the foreground.
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Still some autumn colour at RHS Rosemoor yesterday.
November 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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A day of rain is forecast for North Devon today and so this moment of colour just before sunrise might be all we see apart from grey.
A pale patch of pink, just above the horizon, in an otherwise cloudy grey sky. A low line of trees is silhouetted in the foreground.
November 9, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Acer palmatum Osakazuki just after a shower of rain at RHS Rosemoor this morning.
A dark horizontal twig with blood red palm-shaped leaves glistening with damp after the rain, against a background of autumnal shades of amber and green foliage.
November 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Be-dew-elled flower head of Verbena bonariensis this morning.
It’s such a great plant, outlasting almost all of the other late summer perennials.
A branched cluster of tiny lilac-coloured flowers at the top of a long thin grey-green stem against a dark background. Some of the individual florets bear a bead of dew, picked out by low sunlight.
November 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM