Hayley’s Adventures in Life and Literature

[poppy]

10 hours ago, Madeleine said:

I guess this is the female equivalent of a man buying a train set for his son/grandson/nephew etc so that he can "help" the child play with it, though he ends up using the set himself!  

 

So true! 🤭

[Hayley]

On 1/2/2026 at 6:08 AM, poppy said:

I bought the Bramley Hedge book containing all the stories, theoretically for a family member, but probably more so for myself. It's not a book we ever had but I love the illustrations and I'm crocheting a blanket based on some of the colours. I've also bought a Bramley Hedge diary 😃

Yeah, I bought them "for the baby" 😂. I didn't know there was a diary! I'd love to see the blanket when it's done!

[Hayley]

On 1/2/2026 at 4:19 PM, Madeleine said:

One more, he's presumably over indulged a bit...actually this was when they were first putting up the sculptures so I guess he wasn't properly installed at that point. 

I love them all! 

[poppy]

On 1/5/2026 at 2:58 AM, Hayley said:

Yeah, I bought them "for the baby" 😂. I didn't know there was a diary! I'd love to see the blanket when it's done!

 

I follow Lucy from Attic 24 and she has designed a blanket using Bramley Hedge illustrations as her inspiration.  I'm not using this pattern and I'm using several different colours in my blanket, but thought you might like to see this 😊

 

https://attic24.co.uk/posts/2025/10/08/storyteller-blanket-inspiration/

[Madeleine]

Oh what a lovely website, I'm going to follow her on FB, I'm desperately trying to learn how to crochet and made a stripey blanket in double crochet but that's my limit!  Her colours are lovely and she's made me want to read Brambly Hedge even more,especially the winter one!  Maybe it's a nostalgia thing, as she says there's something very comforting about them, I like to think of Jill Barklem as the Essex equivalent of Beatrix Potter, and it's a shame the books aren't as widely known.

 

Good luck with the blanket, keep us informed of your progress!