Luce and Theo are fraternal twins. For seven years they’ve been in each other’s footsteps. Before that we’d watch them (I was scanned every fortnight) dancing together or kicking each other. Despite constantly being a pair they are strong individuals. I took photos this month of them standing next to each other in front of a […]
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We used to share our garden with two blue jays. They would strut around our back deck and prowl from tree to tree. They didn’t always appear together although they do bond for life. They weren’t too fond of the bird feeder as it was made for birds smaller than they. What do a squirrel
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On a walk last week my daughter pointed at the sky and said, Look Mummy a plane is passing the moon. (Actually I lie – she still says Mommy after two years in the Hamptons). And I reminded her that we learnt a cool way to compare planet sizes. I also changed this month my
What is it that fascinates kids about bugs? We’ve decided to do the Grapefruit Trap experiment every season so my kids can see which creepy critters lurk in the garden over the year. A grapefruit will be the lure to bring the bugs to us – insects, spiders, centipedes, worms, slugs and all. Grapefruit trap
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In recent winter walks in Ashdown Forest the only blooms I really noticed were the yellow flowers of the common gorse. I found it near the treeline by the Goat car park (named after a pub called the Goat which once stood here…a favourite of smugglers). And the evergreen gorse shrubs added a palette of yellow
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A pair of buzzards were soaring and hunting in the fields and on the edge of the woods near us in West Sussex on New Year’s day. As they do regularly. Last summer they often had one of their young ones flying with them. I like that buzzards mate for life. In case you’re an American
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