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Welcome to Day 7 of the @4WillsPub “THANK YOU, HOSTS!” Blog Tour for #RRBCAuthor @JanSikes3 #RRBC #RWISA

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15 July 2020 – Spring and Summer Garden Glimpses – Wonderful Wednesday

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1 July 2020 – My Spring and Summer Garden Glimpses – Wonderful Wednesday

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My Review – This Last Chance by @dlfinnauthor

May 8, 2020July 27, 2020 Maretha at Fauna Park Tales

RAVE REVIEWS BOOK CLUB’S “SPOTLIGHT” Author May 2020 Blog Tour

April 1, 2020June 15, 2020 Maretha at Fauna Park Tales

“Whispers of the Past” Blog Tour – @RobertaEaton17 @4WillsPub

March 24, 2020 Maretha at Fauna Park Tales

My Review – The Memory – by @judithbarrow77 – #NewRelease

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My Review – “Strange HWY: SHORT STORIES” – @BeemWeeks

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My Review – “The LoveLock” – @EichinChang-Lim

5 August – Summer Garden Glimpses – Wonderful Wednesday – #FaunaParkTales

Welcome to another WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY Summer Garden Glimpse! Here in Lancashire we are still hoping, but mostly dreaming of summer, so today I’d like to tell you a bit about a sunflower which came up where I did not expect to find any – inside a special agapanthus planter. Now, agapanthus are a bit tricky […]

29 July – Spring and Garden Glimpses – Wonderful Wednesday #FaunaParkTales

Who could have foreseen that July in Lancashire could turn out as wet as it did, especially after we experienced a warm and amazing spring? This WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY post is the last one in July, supposedly one of our “summer” months in the northwest of England. However, before I become too morbid about our lack […]

22 July 2020 – Spring and Summer Garden Glimpses – Wonderful Wednesday #FaunaParkTales

Welcome to WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY Garden Glimpses. Today, I would like to tell you a little about foxgloves, fantastic plants to enhance the looks of a herbaceous border. Their botanical name is Digitalis purpurea. I’m sure you’ll recognise the word, ‘digitalis’ which has to do with a certain heart medicine – Digoxin – extracted from the […]

Maretha at Fauna Park Tales

Maretha is a South African Italian, born in a small town called Montagu. She grew up in nearby Worcester in the Western Cape – a town reminiscent of living in Switzerland among the snow-capped mountains. Worcester had a small library. Young Maretha’s visits were limited to three times a week, because the librarian told her, “You spend too much time with your nose in a book and neglect your school work.” Nothing much has changed, because she's still a confirmed bookworm who constantly strives to raise more bookworms who enjoy reading, not just as a pleasant past-time, but as an excellent tool to be used when grown-up. Before immigrating to the UK to settle in Lancashire, Maretha worked as a librarian in a private school in Botswana, where one of her tasks was to encourage children to enjoy reading. That was a labour of love for this bookworm, providing valuable help in carving her own career as a children's author/illustrator. It brought her face to face with the literary industry’s toughest critics – children and preteens. She saw that many students also enjoyed reading about birds and animals, their care, habitats and general well-being, especially when a few added catchy rhymes here and there made reading sessions interesting and alive. In 2012 her job was localised and as things often happen, this unforeseen occurrence led to a new chapter in her life. To remain motivated, she wrote down everything she could remember about her family's pets – their little habits and characteristics. For example, the character of the working-dog hero in Fauna Park Tales is based on the different traits of every single dog her family ever owned. Researching habits, habitats and interesting titbits about martial eagles and eagle owls, as well as many smaller birds such as crimson-breasted shrikes and hoopoes,made it easier to illustrate them and tell a believable story. Her illustrations appear throughout Fauna Park Tales. Maretha Botha admits to being a chocoholic and unreformed coffee addict, a keen gardener and bird watcher, who likes to walk on the moors where the stiff breeze coming in from the sea, quickly clears her head, making way for more inspiration.

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15 July 2020 – Spring and Summer Garden Glimpses – Wonderful Wednesday #FaunaParkTales

Welcome to more WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY garden glimpses. This week I would like to showcase some of our remarkable roses which managed to bloom spectacularly, and I daresay miraculously, despite the torrents of rain we have had during the first two weeks of July. There are Climbers, Ramblers, Patio Climbers, Shrub Roses, Modern Shrub Roses – […]

8 July 2020 – Spring and Summer Garden Glimpses – Wonderful Wednesday #FaunaParkTales

WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY – a perfect time to sit back and think about all that which makes gardening such a pleasure – besides writing or reading a good book, of course! BLUEBELLS During Spring in the Northern Hemisphere, carpets of enchanting, sweeps of blue erupt from sleep during April and May. These fairy flowers can be […]