It’s snowdrop season! From January to March – depending on regions and the weather – carpets of snowdrops in woodlands, meadows and gardens signal the end of winter and the promise of spring. Now I might be enthusiastic about walks where I can admire these harbingers of spring but I want my kids – nine […]
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My eight-year-old daughter no longer wanted her doll’s house but refused to give it away. She then came up with the brilliant idea that it would be perfect as a bug hotel with a new basement flat for hedgehogs. Even for a doll’s house bug hotel ‘location, location, location’ is important. We needed somewhere that the
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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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A fun way for kids to play with mud and clay are to mix seed bombs. The seed bombs are a mix of compost, clay and seeds which will grow into wildflowers that are friendly to bees, birds, bugs and butterflies. My children learnt how to make wildflower seed bombs when we went to a botanical
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One of the most stunning spring sights in Britain is woods filled with bluebells. Already now in March, if you take a walk in any of the ancient woodlands or parks, you can see their green shoots everywhere. Oh so soon these woods will be shimmering with violet blue flowers to make our hearts sing! My
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