Image from canva.com Well hello everyone! We have nearly made it to the end of 2020. What a year?! This year was meant to be the year I ticked off so many things on my ever growing to do list. Sadly, like many others, I didn't get all of them done. But I didn't expect [...]
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Merry Christmas Everyone!
Image from canva.com MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!! I hope you are all well and are taking care of yourself. This is possibly one of the strangest Christmases we'll ever have (hopefully anyway). Whatever you may be doing, cherish the little things and look forward to brighter days ahead. Thank you for all of your support so far [...]
Charlotte’s Ramblings.
Hello everyone. Sorry for the silence; I have had a busy week with work and university, but I am starting to wind down for Christmas - finally! What a tumultuous week it has been?! I am thinking of you all at this awful time with the most recent announcement from the PM. Christmas won't be [...]
Easy Nature Crafts – Number 3 – Popcorn Garland for Birds.
Hello, I'm back with another super quick and simple craft idea, that is plastic free and also provides food for the birds. Of course, using popcorn as Christmas decoration isn't anything new, it has been done for decades. Whilst it may not be the shiniest or the glitziest, it is very effective and it has [...]
Poetry Mondays – The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy.
The Darkling Thrush I leant upon a coppice gate,When Frost was spectre-gray,And Winter’s dregs made desolateThe weakening eye of day.The tangled bine-stems scored the skyLike strings of broken lyres,And all mankind that haunted nighHad sought their household fires. The land’s sharp features seemed to meThe Century’s corpse outleant,Its crypt the cloudy canopy,The wind [...]
Easy Nature Crafts – Number 2 – Make your own Ice Lantern!
Hello everyone! How are you doing? And how are you doing really? As we continue to dance under the Covid cloud, I hope this will provide a little moment of distraction and escapism. It is literally a little light of hope. I first saw this when I was little. It was in a little Christmas [...]
Poetry Mondays – Thankful by Mandy Cidlik.
As it is Thanksgiving this week, I thought I would pick a poem centred around this. Be kind, always. Thankful No ghosts or goblins and trick-or-treats, No candy or flowers for your sweets. No gifts to buy or presents to give, Just be THANKFUL for the life that you live. [...]
Poetry Mondays – Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams.
Winter Trees. All the complicated details of the attiring and the disattiring are completed! A liquid moon moves gently among the long branches. Thus having prepared their buds against a sure winter the wise trees stand sleeping in the cold. William Carlos Williams
Easy, Autumnal, Nature Crafts – Number 1
Hello everyone! I thought I would save some of the crafts for half term to last throughout Lockdown 2.0! I came across Mud and Bloom on Instagram, and I was so impressed - please check them out! Mud and Bloom boxes are a monthly subscription delivering seasonal nature and gardening crafts and activities to your [...]
Poetry Mondays – There’s Nothing Like The Sun by Edward Thomas.
There's Nothing Like the Sun. There's nothing like the sun as the year dies, Kind as it can be, this world being made so, To stones and men and beasts and birds and flies, To all things that it touches except snow, Whether on mountains side or street of town. The south wall warms me: [...]
Foxglove and Bee 