It is June and we are now past midsummer. The days are warm and balmy and the nights are fragrant and refreshing. Hedgerows are alive with bees, butterflies and other insects busy about their business and newly fledged birds pester their parents for food. Elderflower is a staple of the British country hedgerow, and is [...]
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2000 Visitors!
https://videopress.com/v/oQzEFxVF?autoPlay=true&loop=true&preloadContent=metadata Thank you so much for 2000 visitors. I am so chuffed that you like this little corner of the internet. I know I have been quiet for a few weeks, there has been A LOT going on, but it is all exciting stuff. Thank you for staying with me and I hope you continue [...]
A Spring Afternoon Walk.
Apple Blossom. Hurrah! We are officially in Spring, and nature has decided it is too. Maybe not the weather, but you can't have everything! Last week, I went for a lovely walk. It was a fabulous way of blowing away the cobwebs. I visited the local bluebell wood and it was gorgeous. The leaves in [...]
The Starling; A Master Mimicker and Murmuration Extraordinaire.
The Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is a bird that is often overlooked as it chatters away on TV aerials and rooftops. I thought they would be common as muck right? Turns out I was wrong. The Starling is currently on the 'Red List' in the UK, which means that their numbers are a cause of concern. [...]
Poetry Mondays; Life Can Be The Sunshine by Erin Hanson
https://videopress.com/v/Yc4m2hes?autoPlay=true&controls=false&loop=true Life can be the Sunshine. Life can be the sunshine, On peaceful days with bright blue skies, Or life can be the raindrops, That fall like tears squeezed from you eyes, Life can be the heaven, That you'll only reach through hell, Since you won't know that you're happy, If you've not been sad [...]
Spring Forward!
In case you haven't heard - the clocks have gone forward 1 hour. That means lighter days ahead (literally and hopefully figuratively). To me, this is fabulous news. Longer evenings make me feel like I can be more productive - I will be less likely to want to curl up and call it a day [...]
Lacking Motivation.
Hello all, how are we doing? Hope you are all ok. I suppose it was inevitable after a busy few weeks, but my levels of motivation have plummeted. With devastating news on the telly recently, and it still being rather cold, I fell like all of my energy has been zapped. It happens to all [...]
Charlotte’s Ramblings – A Much Needed Walk.
Hello all, Hope you are ok! Today I thought I would share with you, a lovely short walk I made right on my doorstep. What was meant to be a quick trip to the Coop turned into a much needed escape into mother nature for about an hour. The snow was beginning to thaw, and [...]
Poetry Mondays – A Poem for Tea.
Something a little different this week. Just add cake! A Poem for Tea. When the world is all at odds, and the mind is all at sea.Then cease the useless tedium, and brew a cup of tea.There is magic in its fragrance, there is solace in its taste.And the laden moments vanish, somehow into [...]
Poetry Mondays – To Daffodils by Robert Herrick
To Daffodils Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attain’d his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the evensong; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as [...]
