#30DaysWild Day 21 – A retreat into fiction

Today was predominated by attending a school selection appeal for our eldest and then me rather maturely sulking about the situation. At the exact time I could have done with the medicinal properties of losing yourself in the wild I chose to hide away inside instead....

#30DaysWild Day 20 – Colour

One of the best things about #30DaysWild is that it literally encourages you to take time to stop and smell the roses and it makes me much more observant of my immediate environment than I normally am when just getting from A to B. Britmums, “Britain’s...

#30DaysWild Day 19 – It’s just too hot!

When the sun makes the slides in the park too hot to use it’s just not fun anymore. So, as out outdoor efforts were curtailed today, here are some facts about the Sun (which I keep reminding myself that all life on earth is dependent on) that I’ve just...

#30DaysWild Day 18 – Thirst quenching

A very cute photo of a hedgehog popped up on my Facebook timeline earlier today. Posted by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society it urged its readers to “Please please pop bowl/s of water out for hedgehogs (and other wildlife) in this blistering heat”....

#30DaysWild Day 16 – Just outside your back door

We often acknowledge how lucky we are to have a fairly large back garden relative to the area we live in as we live on a corner but we often forget that we’re very privileged to have a garden at all as many families don’t. And we should definitely make...