Another interesting post about one of the slightly less obvious animals by Auntie Jane 🙂 While I was scouting for Michael Le-May’s astounding photo of a Green Woodpecker trying to shake off a weasel mid-flight when I had woodpeckers on the brain, I spotted this amazing footage of another weasel bird encounter. These tiny predators, […]
6 Ways to Teach Kids About Nature (when you don’t have a clue!)
Crickets chirping, owls hooting, hyenas cackling and lions roaring. Mixed with the sound of a crackling, popping campfire, the smell of wood burning and a million stars clearly visible up above. Pure bliss found only in Africa. I hold my hands up and say that for learning about the wonders of nature while experiencing them […]
UK Woodpeckers & why they don’t get brain damage
Thanks Auntie Jane for this interesting post about woodpeckers – a bird I have to admit to never giving much thought to before! (edited from original post) Woodpeckers in the UK do exist, however it is really unsusal to see them, especially in Urban Environments. I’ve probably seen four or five in the half century plus […]
18 months on & the plot was lost!
It’s been hard to know how to focus this website and ‘non- profit organisation’ in memory of Gumby. It’s only been 18 months today since he was so suddenly taken from us and in some ways it’s no time at all but in others it feels like so much longer. While I cannot say that […]
Plastic free experiment #2 Off to a very slow start
Hello hello! Ok so living plastic free is REALLY tough! I cannot believe how much plastic there is absolutely EVERYWHERE! And I am so much more reliant on it than I even suspected I was. I really thought after my first post about this that it would be easy to go shopping and reduce the […]
How to turn camping with kids into a weeks worth of cheap & easy holiday entertainment
Summer holidays…..hands up whose excited? Hands up whose feeling slightly hysterical at the fact that we’re one week down, 5 more to go?! While it’s great to spend more time with the kids, holidays do seem to make the whole experience so much more intense. Do you feel that there’s a certain expectation and pressure […]
Trash Talk Thursday (1)
In response to my post about SUP’s and wondering if it is possible to live plastic free, our mum has written something about her thoughts and experiences from the early days of recycling in South Africa. The ‘Conserve Our Resources’ path started for me in South Africa back in 2003 or thereabouts. Until then there was […]
How To Make A Daisy Chain
I don’t remember learning how to make a daisy chain when I was a kid. I think I was quite old but I love the idea of making them now. So much so, that today when I took my 3-year-old out for a walk, it was me getting all excited to make one but when it […]
Living Life Plastic Free Experiment (1)
As I was pondering in Is it possible to live plastic free? I am up for the challenge of trying to reduce the amount of single use plastics we use as a family. I’ll be starting my Living Life Plastic Free experiment from today. I say experiment because I know it’s going to be tough and there […]
Waz – SUP? Is it possible to live Plastic Free?
SUP’s…. Otherwise known as single use plastics. Have you ANY idea how much these are used in your every day life? Do you even know what they are? I have to admit, before this week I had never heard the term. Just think about it for a minute. What are some of the activities you might do […]