by admin | Jun 29, 2017 | #30DaysWild
Another rainy day and one I was quite happy to hide indoors from if my two year old hadn’t insisted on leaving the house. If we hadn’t have gone out I would have missed the wonderful service she was given in a clothes shop even though all the shoes she...
by admin | Jun 28, 2017 | #30DaysWild
#30DaysWilders looking for inspiration for their daily act of wildness need look no further than their phones. Download the 30 Days Wild app, tap the screen and read on. Today I was given “Celebrate the humble stick: Pooh stick, lightsaber, wand? Think of 100...
by admin | Jun 27, 2017 | Books, Days Out
The biggest ever Newark Book Festival promises to transform the Nottinghamshire town into a land of adventure and heroes during the event’s weekend of July 15th and 16th. Back for its third year, more than 100 authors, artists, entertainers, wordsmiths and...
by admin | Jun 27, 2017 | #30DaysWild, Books
Tonight’s storytime was I’m Not Cute! by Jonathan Allen. Baby owl takes a walk through the forest and encounters other woodland animals who all think he’s cute and fluffy. Baby owl disagrees. Vehemently. He thinks he’s a “huge and scary...
by admin | Jun 26, 2017 | #30DaysWild
With a planned day out to an under 10s theme park, I wasn’t sure what form today’s #30DaysWild would take. Fortunately Luke had it covered immediately. As soon as he made it downstairs he wanted to make a bee out of a bottle. Apparently Mister Maker would...
by admin | Jun 25, 2017 | #30DaysWild
A Flower of Kent apple tree which produces cooking apples earned itself a page in science history rather than a recipe book when one of its ripe green fruits dropped to the ground in front of a young mathematician, astronomer and physicist. Since known as the...
by admin | Jun 24, 2017 | #30DaysWild
We had nothing properly planned for most of today so it was particularly lovely that a last minute decision to attend a school fete also brought about the serendipitous discovery that the school in question had a wildflower area of its own. How fabulous is that? Luke...
by admin | Jun 23, 2017 | #30DaysWild
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...
by admin | Jun 22, 2017 | #30DaysWild
A day out at the Lincolnshire Show afforded the chance to not only meet a range of farmyard animals, take in the fresh air across the Showground’s 200+ acres and explore the celebration of the rural side of our county but it also gave me the opportunity to meet...
by admin | Jun 21, 2017 | #30DaysWild
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....
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