Nature’s day. Today was the day the dog and I agreed that the grass was too long, too wet, too full of thistles and nettles. We went the long way round to the field. Detour an annual inevitability, we are already dancing with traffic at the edge of the road, defeated by blind lunges into […]
Swallows – 100 words
Swallows. The pause year, when this was building site, they spat mud bricks under timber eaves and peacefully shat down unfinished walls. I moved in when they went to Africa – a cuckoo. In spring bird brains programmed to return. And return. Thwarted by slippery cladding: returned unnested, they found another perfect niche. A niche […]
Kisses – 104 words
Kisses are strange. I don’t mean the open-mouth eat-you-up heart-pounding type. No, that’s normal for a human animal going about its reproduction, but all the others, the mwa mwa cat’s arse puckered lip variety that are weird. I didn’t kiss my brand-new babies, I nuzzled and sniffed them, filling my soul with the smell and […]
How to Raise an Environmentally Conscious Child
Learning about climate change and the environment has never been as important as it is now with this year said to be the point that either makes or breaks our future. We have teamed up with an independent school in Kent to share a few ways that you can raise an environmentally conscious child. Caring […]
