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A train to meet – 100 words

February 19, 2023 By Ellen

A train to meet The road into town is a gift of misty valleys, glinting lakes and ‘Look, there, over the station!’ ‘What? Oh, yes’ Clouds of dark swirl together, apart, together twisting grey to darkest black shape of a cobra, shape of a heart a murmuration a boomerang of birds. ‘What kind? Where do […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, creative writing, Cumbria, murmuration, nature, poem, starlings

Nature’s Day – 100 words

May 16, 2022 By Ellen

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 […]

Filed Under: review Tagged With: 100 words, dog, May, nature, spring

Swallows – 100 words

April 27, 2022 By Ellen

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 […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, birds, creative writing, nature, nesting, swallows

Kisses – 104 words

January 4, 2022 By Ellen

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 […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, creative writing, kisses, learned behaviour, manners, nature

How to Raise an Environmentally Conscious Child

January 4, 2022 By Ellen

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 […]

Filed Under: review Tagged With: animals., eco, environmental, green, hikes, nature

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