This week my posts have been focused on our garden. For me, there’s nothing better than it being a happy haven for wild ones, whether they’re my kids, wild birds or flowers. I might usually write about walks on nature trails and learning about wildlife and nature, but if we’re at home and it’s not pouring with rain, […]
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This week my posts will all be about my garden. We live right in the middle of the West Sussex countryside. Our house is on a hill overlooking a valley with fields surrounded by woodlands. Our garden is perfect for wild ones, whether my children, flowers or animals. So I had to celebrate my garden with a
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I spent this past weekend at the Spring Fayre at Forest Garden Shovelstrode in Sussex. As children played in the sunshine, wild flowers glowed in the woods, a terrier leapt into the pond, and visitors strolled around the stands or watched wood crafting displays, that spring feeling struck me. Not surprisingly that spring emotion is
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We moved house this week. Not far. In fact just outside the next village. There are lots of pheasants roaming near our new home but they’re not Fred. A wild pheasant we nicknamed Fred showed up in January when we rebuilt a bird feeder platform. Without fail he made an appearance every morning to nibble on
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There are quite a few farms on the country road where we live in West Sussex. For the last few weeks Luce and Theo have been peering out of the car window whenever we’ve passed a field with sheep in the hope of seeing baby lambs. Well, spring has arrived! This weekend they spotted their
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I used to be a Londoner, but what I adore about settling in the countryside is that I can just put on my wellies and take a walk on the wild side. Like yesterday morning’s encounters with wildlife in our garden or near where I live in Sussex. The sun was out so I decided to
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