by admin | Jun 19, 2017 | #30DaysWild, Science
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...
by admin | Jun 18, 2017 | #30DaysWild
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”....
by admin | Jun 18, 2017 | Days Out
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....
by admin | Jun 17, 2017 | #30DaysWild, Books, Days Out
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...
by admin | Jun 16, 2017 | #30DaysWild
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...
by admin | Jun 15, 2017 | #30DaysWild, Books
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...
by admin | Jun 14, 2017 | #30DaysWild
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...
by admin | Jun 13, 2017 | Books, Days Out
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...
by admin | Jun 13, 2017 | #30DaysWild
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...
by admin | Jun 12, 2017 | #30DaysWild
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...
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