I can't quite believe that we're already in May and Green Health Week 2024 starts this Saturday, 11th May! It only seems like yesterday...

The moon made big news this week, in North America anyway, as it took centre stage to block out the sun for a few fleeting moments. Just...

It's the time of year...this was how I planned to start the blog today as I mulled it over whilst washing the breakfast dishes. Spring...

The title of this week's blog is the final line from a poem by Pat Schneider called "The Patience of Ordinary Things" and as the wind...

It's dark, it's cold, the festivities are over and the decorations are packed away but there are still things to celebrate. People tell...

We can't believe it, we're already over halfway through our advent calendar. As this is published there is just one week to go before...

As I was scrolling through Substack this morning, a photograph of blue skies, palm trees and pyramids caught my eye. I stopped to read...

Given the amount of water lying about Lanarkshire due to the excessive rain that has battered down over the last couple of weeks, you...

This weekend (Saturday 23rd September) is the autumn equinox and the start of astronomical autumn. Despite the late sun and the warm...

What a glorious spell of weather we've been having lately. Whilst meteorological autumn started on 1st September, and although the...

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,...

And so the wheel turns. This week we entered August and passed Lammas or Lughnasadh, celebrated as the time of the first harvest. ...

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...

I find summer solstice a little bittersweet, mainly based on a long standing family tradition of greeting it as "downhill to Christmas"...

Volunteers' Week 2023 has just drawn to a close so I have been thinking a lot about volunteering over the last wee while. Volunteering...

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....

Green Health Week is upon us, running from 13th to 21st May. The astute amongst you will note that this coincides rather neatly with...

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...

I had a revelation last weekend. You really can help people connect to nature inside, even in a windowless room. Of course, I already...

Here's the annual obligatory blue sky and blossom picture. It's that time of year again, Spring by any metric you choose, as...