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#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 learnt courtesy...
#30DaysWild Day 17 – The sun has got its hat on!
I'm going to say it. After all of last year's #30DaysWild and the beginning of this one spent moaning about the rain... oh, my isn't it too hot! Turns out whatever my mixed nationality background, I'm very British when it comes to the weather. Today was the first...
#30DaysWild Day 15 – The Snail and the Whale
We're big Julia Donaldson fans in the Malpi household and The Snail and the Whale, originally recommended by my aunt, is one of our favourite titles. It certainly fuels my wanderlust to visit wild places "Of shimmering ice and coral caves, And shooting stars and...
Will you be Inspired on Saturday?
The enthusiasm a county writers and illustrators group has for a long-standing literary award has led to them not only shadowing the 80th anniversary of the CLIP/Carnegie award but also prompting the return of a city festival. Lincolnshire's Society for Children’s...
#30DaysWild Day Five – Everybunny Dance!
Today is the start of National Bookstart Week and with 2017's theme being Let's Explore Outdoors! it complements #30DaysWild really helpfully! I picked up a copy of this year's chosen book, Everybunny Dance! by Ellie Sandall when visiting Lincoln Toy Library last week...
We all went on a Gruffalo hunt – #30DaysWild Day Three
Day three of 2017's #30DaysWild saw us achieve something I intended to do last year but didn't manage to in all 30 days - take part in a specially organised #30DaysWild event. Mini Explorers takes place at Boultham Park in Lincoln on the first Saturday of every month...
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#30DaysWild Day 4 – #LincsHour
This evening our county's weekly Twitter hour saw our discussion focus on this week's World Environment Day (June 5th) and World Oceans Day (June 8th) and it's #PassOnPlastic campaign. Clearly the environment is a subject that many #LincsHour (Mondays 8pm-9pm)...
#30DaysWild Day 3 – Sunflowers
Earlier in the week we visited The Willows near Glentham to pick up some sunflower seeds. The garden centre was giving them out to competitive families vying to grow the tallest flower as part of National Children's Garden Week (May 26th - June 3rd, 2018). Today we...
#30DaysWild Day 2 – Whisby Nature Park
From courting as teenagers to taking our mini ones to run off some of their seemingly endless energy, Whisby Nature Park has been one of our favourite places to visit for many years. Managed by Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, the park was created by quarrying for sand...
#30DaysWild Day 1 – Vegetable planting
This is the third year I've taken part in the Wildlife Trusts 30 Days Wild initiative but yet again June has crept up all too quickly on me and my best laid plans haven't even actually been laid so I'm taking the call to enact a month of "Random Acts of Wildness" at...
The destination for your imagination this July
Newark Book Festival 2018
Celebrating 40 years of adventurous fun
Belton House adventure playground