Monthly Archives: December 2021

The bees are searching – an illustration from Busy Bee and the Silent Spring

In Busy Bee and the Silent Spring, named after Rachel Carson’s ground breaking book, the bees of Old Oak Meadow have to try to find the source of the illness that is affecting all the creatures living there. This is the scene where Bea and four other bees go in search of what that source […]

The bee stretcher – help is at hand, an illustration from Busy Bee and the Silent Spring

Four bees carry an unwell bee back to the hive. In Busy Bee and the Silent Spring, named after Rachel Carson’s ground breaking book, the bees of Old Oak Meadow have to try to find the source of the illness that is affecting all the creatures living there. Some teachers who have reviewed the story […]

A dizzy Bee – an illustration from Busy Bee and the Silent Spring

In this illustration from Busy Bee and the Silent Spring one of the bees starts to feel very dizzy. The story is all about Bea and her friends who live in Old Oak Meadow trying to discover why all the inhabitants of the meadow are feeling unwell. This leads them to a bad farmer who […]

The surgery of Doctor Bee – an illustration from Busy Bee and the Silent Spring

This is an illustration from Busy Bee and the Silent Spring. Here, Dr Bee is seen attending to various creatures from the meadow that have started to feel unwell. It’s written for the 8-12 year old reader and features a very special bee call Bea who along with the other bees and the rest of […]

Women’s Scientist and Philosopher plain logo crew neck jumper

A crew neck jumper from our Scientist and Philosopher organic cotton range. Plain logo crew neck jumper, white lettering for darker coloured crew neck jumpers. Check out how these products are made using organic cotton. We need to live in not just a sustainable way but one that causes the least environmental loading on the […]

Love your planet – organic cotton T-shirt

This is our first Scientist and Philospher “Love your planet” design. It’s all about this limited planet we live on and what we are doing to it. Most individuals seem unaware of the collective effects of so many humans. Humanity has done incredible amounts of damage during this interglacial period ever since the species stopped, […]

Freedom of the seas design V2B – organic cotton bag

This is the second Scientist and Philosopher bag in the Freedom of the seas – Protect our oceans series. It uses a Teemill organic cotton bag so hopefully lighter environmental loading than many other materials. The seas and oceans of the world are suffering in so many ways. There’s plastic pollution and acidification. They have […]

Where’s Basil? – On the waterfront, Morges, Switzerland

Basil’s in Switzerland on the well kept waterfront of Morges on Lac Leman. Brown Bear’s Big Day Out is a story about a bear in a zoo that puts on a disguise so that he can escape and visit a funfair called Dizzyland. It’s about looking at people in depth and not being afraid because […]

Where’s Basil? – The sculpture of The Last Romantic, Mihai Eminescu, Vevey, Switzerland – Brown Bear’s Big Day Out

Basil’s in Switzerland visiting the sculpture of the Last Romantic, Mihai Eminescu. Brown Bear’s Big Day Out is a story about a bear in a zoo that puts on a disguise so that he can escape and visit a funfair called Dizzyland. It’s about looking at people in depth and not being afraid because they […]

Farmhouse arrest – an illustration from Busy Bee and the Silent Spring

In Busy Bee and the Silent Spring all the creatures of Old Oak Meadow are feeling unwell. Something must be making them sick. They discover that the problem is coming from a farm next door to the meadow. In this final illustration the bad farmer from the farm adjoining Old Oak Meadow has been arrested. […]