#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”....

Half-sized knights are riding into Show

If you’re planning to do the Lincoln Knights trail on Wednesday, June 21st and Thursday, June 22nd then you’re going to come up one short unless you head a couple of miles north of the city and walk through the gates of the Lincolnshire Showground....

#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...

#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...

#30DaysWild Day 14 – Let’s talk about litter

Last year I was particularly impressed by several #30DayWilders who wrote on the Facebook group about doing litter picks with their children as one of their acts of wildness. It’s something I would like to do with the minis when they are older too. At the moment...

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...

#30DaysWild Day 13 – Caterpillars

Another day of rain so bedtime story time rescued our #30DayWild efforts. Christopher’s Caterpillars follows our guinea pig hero as he makes pets of the caterpillars that are nibbling his dandelion seedlings. When the caterpillars mysteriously disappear from...

#30DaysWild Day 12 – Park life

Today was a day of two parks. Our local park was deserted for most of our lunchtime play session which was presided over by a classic dramatic wide Lincolnshire sky with rolling fluffy clouds alternating with a few slightly greyer ones (which were probably one of the...