Moon

Tonight before it was really dark, wandered to the top of our garden beneath the Downs because saw the moon peeping out from behind the trees and wanted to watch it sail upwards into the dark sky. Something about the early summer night with crows rising noisely from the corn fields flying home to roost […]

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Downland

Found an old book – ‘The Face of Britain’ – English Downland by H.J. Massingham written long time ago with early black and white prints. The cover of the book is torn and shows an image of a man ploughing a Downland field behind horses with seagulls wheeling in the air. There are few lines […]

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fluffy

Pancake making is one of those cooking things that scares me (that it will go wrong) – stick to the saucepan, the ceiling, the floor, the passing by cat .. so thought have a look how to make the fluffiest pancakes. But how much, is too much. City Science – Esme Trontz- Scientific American – […]

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Ecosystem Restoration

Like many torn between what love to do and what maybe need to do. Please follow link to ‘Ecosystem Restoration Playbook produced by the UN for World Environment Day. Maybe your family can find something in this, you would like to do,. Its No Mow May to encourage wildlife, many we are losing rapidly – […]

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Breathe then rebuild

This last year, feels like a tsunami has ripped through our lives, showing how fragile people and organisations really are. Always wondered why towns like Pompei spring up around volcanoes, knowing they are dormant – hoping they are extinct. If you survived everything this last year has thrown at you, breathe and then rebuild seems […]

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thoughts

Forget about social media, and everything connected – do whats right for you, your family and friends

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New Scientist

‘Spiking nuclear reactions Chernobyl near Kiev, Ukraine’ New Scientist “Ben Fogle and Joanna Lumley have visited these places with dosimeters for up to a week at a time for the World to see what can happen. Some Ukranian residents even live within the boundary zone”

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Travelling

The pink super moon woke me up last night, very large and low above the Down on its journey, partly hiding behind our fir tree. Miss travelling – been over a year since visited Europe. Thought Brexit was bad until the virus arrived. With the family grew up with mostly drove to the South of […]

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Wool

“Today, we’re surrounded by ingenious gadgets. We don’t grow the peas or raise the chicken that we serve for dinner; instead we hunt and gather in the grocery store. We shop online to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for our clothes and blankets” Helen Fisher

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