Image from Ivy and Rigg Northumberland. Fast fashion has become a phrase that is used all over the shop. And for good reason - fast fashion is responsible for around 10% of global gas emissions. It seems no surprise then, that more and more of us are looking to small, local companies who provide fantastic [...]
Tag: Connect to Nature
Long time no speak…
Hello!!! How are you my lovely people. I am so sorry for the silence, I have been sooo busy recently and my laptop also died which was a stress I really didn't need on top of everything else. I hope you are all doing well? I have some posts in the pipeline, and I have [...]
Championing Nature Education – Little Robin Education.
Image from Little Robin Education. It is probably no surprise to you how important I believe nature education to be. Thankfully, I am not alone in this belief. Since starting my Instagram and blog, I have come across many fabulous people and small businesses dedicated to making a difference and to inspire young minds to [...]
Hello – I’m back!
Hello everyone! Long time no speak! I have had a very busy few weeks and I have not had the time to sit down and write a post. And let me tell you, I have missed it. I have been very much aware that by not posting regularly, my little space on the internet will [...]
Elderflower Cordial
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 [...]
Wild Garlic Pesto.
Image from BBC Good Food. After my recent post, I thought I would share the recipe I used to make pesto from the wild garlic that I foraged a couple of weeks a go. Wild garlic is pretty versatile and you can make, garlic butter, pasta, pesto etc. If you are unsure what Wild Garlic [...]
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 [...]
Did you do the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch?
Image from RSPB Last weekend was the UK's largest citizen science project - the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch. For the 42nd time, thousands of brits up and down the country took up their binoculars, put the kettle on and spent 1 hour identifying and counting all the species of birds in their chosen area, be [...]
Poetry Mondays – The Brook by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
The Brook. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sallyAnd sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges,By twenty thorpes, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. Till last by Philip's farm I flow To [...]
Poetry Mondays – ‘Hope’ by Emily Dickinson.
Image from canva.com Hope. “Hope” is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all And sweetest in the Gale is heard And sore must be the storm That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm I’ve [...]
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