For some time I’ve been passing an opening in a hedge line and seeing a set of gates which are never open. I thought it was access to some private property. Chris who has written a blog for me on this site was adventurous and recently said he’d been and…
A short Dose of Nature!
On March 19th I wrote a throw away comment on a very short post which was a poem. The post mentioned Dose of Nature. This is a relatively new charity which I have become a guide for. You can find out more about the charity here: https://www.doseofnature.org.uk/ This charity was…
Can nature connection support people with disordered eating?
This is not a post by me but one that came through on my feed which people might find helpful. It’s from Finding Nature a project set up by Professor Miles Richardson and it’s a guest blog about a research project on whether nature connection can support people with disordered…
Caught in espionage out in the wilds
It was a drab end of winter day. I decided to go on one of my forays out into the borderlands of Surrey and Hampshire. The Basingstoke Canal called me as often it would back in my early twenties. Around that time, I also fished those waters not with great…
Enjoying growth by watching trees
Here’s a short video of something that caught my attention this morning biking back home taking the long way, from dropping my van at the garage.
Lesson from a tree
I was walking down to church the other Sunday evening. I noticed a tree in the corner of the grounds belonging to the flats by the long alley way on the Worplesdon road. I recalled not seeing one for quite some time (since the event I’ve seen two in a…
The walk that became something else
“Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes”. Elizabeth Scott Browning On an early morning walk recently I headed towards Whitmoor Common. The sky was clear blue, the light was bright and the dew was glinting in the sunshine. Noisy young…