Over the May bank holiday weekend we went champing, which gave us a great opportunity to visit nature reserves close to where we were staying and get out on the River Stour in a canoe.
Month: May 2016
A Weekend Champing
“Champing? What on earth is that?”, I hear you ask. Champing is the combination of the words church and camping. We spent the weekend at All Saints Church in the tiny village of West Stourmouth, a little way outside Canterbury. The Church was beautiful, Saxon in origin with a small, but beautiful graveyard, the stones home to lichens and mosses, flowers bursting through and butterflies fluttering above
30 days wild 2016
Last year I took part in 30 days wild during June and I’ll be doing the same this year. This is a campaign run by the Wildlife Trusts to encourage everyone to get out and enjoy the “wild”. They have 101 ideas for random acts of wildness on their website, to inspire and even …
Raising a family in the garden
This year we've been keeping a record of the birds visiting our garden on a daily basis. During the winter we had a flock of long tailed tits visit, along with a goldcrest. We've had a sparrowhawk land on the fence and red kites, buzzards and a kestrel are regularly seen overhead. We also have …
