In early spring when my usual route into the woodlands became too muddy, I headed to another part of the woods where there’s a pine plantation. The path leading up to it is lined with coppice trees whose branches bend over it so you feel like you’re in a tunnel heading to Narnia. Badger and deer trails crisscross […]
Yeah it’s bluebell time in the woods! When the ancient woodlands around the valley where we lived in southeast England turned blue, I used to take my twins Luce and Theo for walks to see the bluebells every year. Often they flower away for weeks non stop. Sometimes my kids were rather annoyed with them
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When the daisies start opening up and appearing in the grass, a lovely rite of childhood is to make crowns, necklaces and bracelets with daisy chains. After watching girls making chains of wild flowers in the playground, my daughter told me she was going to show me how to make a simple daisy chain. Of
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Since nature has waved its green magic wand across the countryside, I’ve regularly headed off with my twins Luce and Theo for walks in the woods near us. On our latest adventure, I handed them each a bag telling them we were going on a woodland scavenger hunt. Let kids choose what nature treasure to collect
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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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I’ve been rather quiet on my blog recently as I went through a hellish period called moving house. But a huge upside is that I’m now basically living in the middle of a nature reserve in the West Sussex countryside. I’m also close to the gardens of Gravetye Manor which I finally had a chance
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