#30DaysWild Day 23 – Grow Wild

Have you heard about Grow Wild? The UK’s biggest ever wildflower campaign it aims to bring people together “to transform local spaces with native, pollinator-friendly wild flower and plants”. The national outreach initiative of the Royal Botanic...

#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”....