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This week it's time for another guest blog. Next time you are out for a walk in your local park, stop for a moment and look closely at...

As you're probably aware, May is all about walking - walk this May, if you will. You'll probably also not be that surprised to discover...

Trees are so important for our wildlife – they offer food, shelter and a whole lot more. But how do we find out which animals have been...

This week I have spent a lot of time thinking about trees. When we started thinking about a month long nature noticing project, I needed...

Can you believe it's May on Sunday? Undoubtedly one of my favourite times of year, although I strongly suspect I say that about every...

For Christmas I received a lovely book Nature Writing for Every Day of the Year, and every evening I read the day's entry, and then I...

Over on the dreaded social media, a quote that I had forgotten about leapt out at me: Life is simply a mix of mayhem and magnolias, so...

Inspired by the podcast I mentioned last week I've been keeping an eye on the cherry trees and their swelling buds, and as you can see...

I went south for a few days, and when I returned, Spring had sprung. Last week my morning walk was very much still at dawn, this week,...

I've said it before and I'll say it again, experiencing awe is good for you. This week I attended the first session in a new course...

I seem to have spent much of the last 24 hours looking at the sky. I'm not really sure that changeable covers it, but yesterday in a...

In my head this is a neat collection of thoughts and experiences that I have had over the last week. In reality I am not a "neat...

No prizes for my photography but I was so excited to see the first daffodils blooming earlier this week, that despite it being still...

I've been looking forward to writing today's blog for a while, but then I almost mistimed it; February has crept up on me; only a chance...

This week I attended the Winter Mindset workshop that I mentioned just before Christmas, put on by the Continuing Studies department at...

Happy New Year! Perhaps it's my age but whenever anyone references Blue Monday, I immediately start singing the New Order song, rather...

This week we remain in Scandinavia, in spirit at least. Meet Dave, he's a Tomte, if you're in Sweden, a Tontuu in Finland and a Nisse in...

No, I've not just let the cat run across my keyboard. Friluftsliv is a Norwegian word that I have just learned this morning, and now...

Usually my inspiration for writing these blogs comes when I am outside walking. It's not peculiar to me of course, plenty of creative...

Next Wednesday is the first day December and the start of meteorological winter. Before that, we've got the first storm of the 21/22...