I’ve recently been making gifts for friends rather than buying. My presents have included homemade chocolate truffles and bottles of sloe gin, wild plum gin and blackberry vodka. But I’ve also been collecting herbs, flowers and plants from my garden due to the book Gifts from the Garden by Debora Robertson. The author is a food […]
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One frosty morning this week the sun was just beginning to rise over the hill in our valley. All was quiet upstairs but outside everything was stirring. As I focused on the trail into the woods, a deer suddenly came into view. And then it leapt across the field. A pheasant purposefully sauntered across the crispy
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Boulders and small sandstone cliffs lined the path with majestic trees clinging to them like warrior riders. Luce and Theo pretended that they were explorers in a time warp as they climbed and traversed the sandrock outcrops. We were following the Rock Walk which winds for over a kilometre along the edge of Bloomer Valley
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As readers know I’m very keen on children noticing and appreciating nature. As we have so many wild birds where we live in rural West Sussex, I’m continually thinking of ways to make bird watching fun for them – like designing this Lego bird feeder. So I came up with a plan for them to
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Let me give you the scenario why I was desperate for a quiet walk in a beautiful garden. It’s half term break so on Tuesday I took my twins to a park where they continually screamed in delight as they scrambled along shaking planks linking treetops. Every time they went down the zip wire at Go
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Last winter I found a cluster of oak galls on a tree in the Ashdown Forest as well as on the ground underneath. They were brown, hard and each had a small exit hole in them. I collected some of them and stored them at home in a sealed container. I first thought they were
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