Most kids love building a den, whether it be with the sofa cushions indoors and outdoors, and the more traditional rustic type with branches, sticks and twigs from trees. Indeed whatever foliage you can lay your hands on. Nothing beats that cosy toasty feeling when the making is complete and you can crawl inside. Its […]
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The Abandoned Garden
Creating a garden is a very personal and individual activity. I have often visited gardens where the person or couple are quite elderly and have wondered what will happen to that garden when they are no longer around. This week I have had the opportunity to see for myself what takes over when a garden, […]
Countryside Skills Day
Thank you Dorset Coppice Group for holding such a wonderful open day and for letting us find out about some of those really important countryside skills. From the location, a beautiful wood used to practise those coppicing skills, through the range of crafts on display to the knowledge and willingness to talk about […]
Magical Nightime Garden – Syon Park
We have just made a repeat trip to the Enchanted Woodland Garden at Syon Park, West London. We first visited this time last year and yet again it was a magical, enchanting and inspiring experience. The gardens are lit, spotlighted and hung with decorations. The organisers use the effect of changing colour, twinkling lights, […]
A Perfect Day Outdoors – Helped by a Trail with Sticks
What’s your idea of a perfect day outdoors? Often it depends on your mood, invariably the weather plays an important part and it is usually very difficult to please everybody. Well last weekend we came as close to perfect as possible. Thank you weather for performing for once. Thank you also to The National Trust […]
Share Some Local Autumn Colour
I recently sent out a newsletter featuring the Woodland Trust’s Top Ten Woods for Autumn colour. I hoped it would inspire families to get out into the woods this half term. The list certainly got me yearning for a helping of autumn colour. If I am lucky this week I may get to visit one of […]
Bluebells, Wellies and A Surprise in the Woods
Bluebell Wood One of the best things about exploring outdoors is finding the unexpected. A walk in one of our local bluebell woods was no exception. England has been rather wet this spring so the children donned on wellies and waterproofs as a matter of course. Though we were rather lucky as not only did […]
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