[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-crazy-sunbeams-rainbows-an-stuff-on-the-moor":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"So many of my trips for work the past couple years have started with \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddington_Bear\">this bear\u003C/a>. Whenever I visit him at Paddington station, he asks if I've brought him marmalade, and sometimes I remember. This time I brought him Nutella, which he thought wasn't too bad, although we made the jar look like it hadn't been opened so I could give it to the Reeve family, with whom I was going to stay.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_oct11_24-127158dfc1.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI was going out to Dartmoor to visit the writer and illustrator \u003Ca href=\"http://www.philipreeve.blogspot.com/\">Philip Reeve\u003C/a> to work on a couple secret projects we have tucked up our sleeves. I brought all this work to do on the train, but by the time I got to about Bath, I just wanted the train to arrive. My new phone lets me send text messages – \u003Ci>with photos(!)\u003C/i> – so I started texting pictures of a very bored cat.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_oct11_28-0413ce9ced.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOne of the best parts of the journey is when the train goes right by the sea in Dawlish. I took this using an app called Instagram and thought it looked very artsy-fartsy.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_oct11_26-2c761d230d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd hurrah, the train finally arrived. The rain was tipping down on the moor, so I didn't do any landscape sketches right away, but I did it the warm kitchen and make drawings of everyone in the family. Here's Sarah, who's a great photographer, surrounded by gadgetry.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sarah_reeve-4fc221cfbf.gif\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/philip_reeve-1-6474e92017.gif\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sam_reeve-320c0ac8f8.gif\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for lots more pics under the cut!-->\\r\nOne of the first things I saw outdoors was a very wet and muddy alpaca named Alfie (or is it Iggie? I get them mixed up). He looks like he only has one ear in this photo.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_oct11_07-bc52792d5f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nSam and I drew a comics jam and called it \u003Ci>Ferrari Spider\u003C/i>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/ferrari_spider1-98dea67c14.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/ferrari_spider2-5f7a06546f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nEven though it was technically a work visit, we did go out the next day for a lovely walk on the moor.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_oct11_01-3dee533a54.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe clouds around the tors were very dramatic.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_oct11_13-74e729f518.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_oct11_05-0bb1001466.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_oct11_03-60094ceb75.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nPlaying around with my camera phone again. Here's a big, snotty highland coo. I love how this photo looks like it could've been taken anytime in the last 50 years. I tweeted it and Hayley Campbell at Gosh! Comics tweeted back: \u003Ci>HIGHLAND COO! My Dad's favourite poem goes like this: \"I saw a coo upon the hill, it's no there noo -- it's shifted.\"\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_oct11_27-9cefa59a43.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWe got well rained on, but we all had good jackets and boots, so it just made everything look more dramatic. I love the way this photo captures the light on the wet tussocks. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_oct11_21-6a670a144c.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_oct11_29-7756d7670b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOkay, by this point the light display was just getting a little surreal...\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_oct11_23-2ec12ac48a.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nSome lovely old standing stones. My studio mate Gary just saw them and got excited. Gary: \u003Ci>Cool! How old are those stones?\u003C/i> Me: \u003Ci>Very old!\u003C/i> Gary: \u003Ci>Thanks for that.\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_oct11_17-68674346aa.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThis old stone bridge looks like something out of \u003Ci>Lord of the Rings\u003C/i>. That's Frodo the poodle sniffing around.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_oct11_18-cf00be0182.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWhile we were having lunch, Sam had a bit of time to plough a few furrows. You can see a drawing Philip made over on his \u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.tumblr.com/\">Dartmoor sketch blog\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_oct11_30-30e4315b20.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_oct11_31-043b5fdc04.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_oct11_06-611aca2927.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_oct11_15-1876d226c1.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_oct11_12-c80aee72a2.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_oct11_11-8e8215b313.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThanks for a lovely visit, Sarah, Philip and Sam!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartmoor_oct11_08-25cc2a7a28.jpg\">","2011-10-28T12:09:00.000Z","crazy-sunbeams-rainbows-an-stuff-on-the-moor",[],"crazy sunbeams, rainbows an' stuff on the moor",1776628720891]