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The Misunderstood Pirate By Francine Davies And The Ogs The Ogs are a Registered Trademark No. 2622780.  Copyright Francine Davies   There is also an audio version of this on you tube.  If you would like to listen to that please press here   The pebbles chattered as the sea rolled them in. The air...

‘Everyone wants to be remembered’ by Francine Davies © 2012 The Ogs are a registered trademark No. 2622780 There is also an audio version of this story on YouTube.  If you would like to listen please press here: https:// youtu.be/yw3CsQ9jL9U   Mammoth thought he was the first up on this fine...

[caption id="attachment_452" align="aligncenter" width="300"] "Don't Forget to Hug Trees" A painting from Francine Davies' Iceland Series. Currently on show at Crafts by the Sea, Ogmore by Sea, Vale of Glamorgan.[/caption]   Don't Forget to Hug Trees It is not unheard of in our family to hear someone say...

Celebrating the beautiful #Welsh #Landscape through #ART! This weekend has been so uplifting, inspiring and exciting and even nurturing! The #LondonWelshCentre is a particularly powerful example of #CommunityDevelopment working to foster relationships with people and using shared #Culture and #Geography to connect 'us' and 'them' all...

Letting the imagination run wild in the woods!!   On our New Year's Day Walk from Henrhyd Waterfalls to Abercraf we saw so many interesting trees both growing and fallen. Perhaps it was because it was such a mucky, muddy walk and we had to keep our...

An “Extra” “Ordinary” Year Please!   I have made a pathetic attempt to NOT paint or draw or make things or write this Christmas but the result has meant that I feel as if I have been repeatedly turned round and round in a circle and left...

The Ferns Again! One day I can be walking amongst a coppery brown #landscape on a dry, cold, windy #winter day. The next day that same route is a rich, burgundy, red brown landscape due to the simple addition of heavy rain. This rich colour really...

It's in all our Nature It is common knowledge that humans are supposedly more advanced intellectually than other species in the natural world because we have the so called advantage of rational thought.  This is then often interpreted as suggesting that we are the more sophisticated...

  #TheHermitCrab The  Sea was right out when I swam today and as I walked back to my Dryrobe, woolly hat and wellies ( I know how to power dress for the beach!) I saw for the first time in a long time a shell moving in...

The Purple SandPiper Today I met a new Bird thanks to fellow morning walkers who unlike me know what they are looking at when they see it! I am so grateful to knowledgeable folk who offer me a moment to help me see new things that I...