On being amazed
As I was scrolling through Substack this morning, a photograph of blue skies, palm trees and pyramids caught my eye. I stopped to read...
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sarahburgess5
- Oct 20
- 4 min
ParkBathe Lanarkshire
Given the amount of water lying about Lanarkshire due to the excessive rain that has battered down over the last couple of weeks, you...
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sarahburgess5
- Sep 21
- 4 min
That harvest feeling
This weekend (Saturday 23rd September) is the autumn equinox and the start of astronomical autumn. Despite the late sun and the warm...
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sarahburgess5
- Sep 8
- 3 min
Season of tiny conker collecting
What a glorious spell of weather we've been having lately. Whilst meteorological autumn started on 1st September, and although the...
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sarahburgess5
- Aug 18
- 3 min
Approach of autumn
It's that time of year that seems to be both busy and quiet simultaneously. People enjoying the last few days of the school holidays,...
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sarahburgess5
- Aug 4
- 4 min
First fruits
And so the wheel turns. This week we entered August and passed Lammas or Lughnasadh, celebrated as the time of the first harvest. ...
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sarahburgess5
- Jul 21
- 4 min
Walking for fun
Apparently not everyone likes walking. That's obvious isn't it? It just hadn't occurred to me for a while, but suddenly it was coming...
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sarahburgess5
- Jun 21
- 3 min
Solstice thoughts
I find summer solstice a little bittersweet, mainly based on a long standing family tradition of greeting it as "downhill to Christmas"...
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sarahburgess5
- Jun 9
- 2 min
Some thoughts on volunteering
Volunteers' Week 2023 has just drawn to a close so I have been thinking a lot about volunteering over the last wee while. Volunteering...
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sarahburgess5
- May 26
- 1 min
Green Health Week - a summary
And what a week it was; our best Green Health Week ever. So what did we do? We walked and we wandered. We sat still and we sat silently....
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sarahburgess5
- May 11
- 2 min
The 5 ways to wellbeing in nature
Green Health Week is upon us, running from 13th to 21st May. The astute amongst you will note that this coincides rather neatly with...
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sarahburgess5
- Apr 21
- 4 min
Here comes the sun
What a week! I wasn't expecting all this sunshine, yet it also seems somewhat overdue. While we may have missed out on Spring equinox...
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sarahburgess5
- Apr 6
- 4 min
Indoor nature
I had a revelation last weekend. You really can help people connect to nature inside, even in a windowless room. Of course, I already...
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sarahburgess5
- Mar 23
- 3 min
Blossom season
Here's the annual obligatory blue sky and blossom picture. It's that time of year again, Spring by any metric you choose, as...
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sarahburgess5
- Mar 9
- 4 min
Making the most of walking
I was lucky enough to have a day out in Stirling for work this week and what a day it was, just look at that sky and those hills. Walking...
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sarahburgess5
- Feb 24
- 3 min
Awesome bulbs!
Riding high on the great news that we're going to be able to trial prescribing nature, I accidentally got lost in social media and saw a...
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sarahburgess5
- Feb 10
- 4 min
Walking and noticing
I've been planning to write about walking this week since the last blog, but of course now that I come to actually write about it, can I...
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sarahburgess5
- Jan 26
- 4 min
Murmurations
After this morning's walk I want to confidently declare that the mornings are indeed getting lighter. Of course this is true, but also I...
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sarahburgess5
- Jan 12
- 3 min
New year, new rituals
It's shortly after 3.30 in the afternoon as I start to write this. I've just been downstairs to put the kettle on and noticed something...
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sarahburgess5
- Dec 21, 2022
- 3 min
Festive greetings
I'd just got back to my desk after a lunchtime walk, grumpy that the weather warning for snow had only resulted in dismal slush and rain...
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