Tag: Environment

• Existential Rain!

  What a thoroughly miserable day it was yesterday. Nothing was planned, besides needing a quick trip for groceries but it felt like the weather had brought my world to an unwanted stand still. Yes, that’s being a bit overdramatic lol. But can we just have our normal rain again and not this soaking, mirroring the…

  Garden Life

  22nd Nov 2022

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  Book, Climate change, Environment, Invasive species, Native species, Nature, Simon Barnes, Wallace and Grommit, Wildlife

• Reasons to be Cheerful

  Three cheers for the National Trust as they plough on ahead whilst others squabble. Especially as I can pat myself on the back for including some of the species they mention. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/03/national-trust-to-plant-1200-hectares-of-flower-filled-grassland-in-devon The opening of this introduction resonated with me so that I simply had to buy it after reading >>> ‘There is a common…

  Garden Life

  5th Nov 2022

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  Book, Conservation, Environment, National Trust, Uk, Wildlife

• Vanishing Point

  “It seems, just now, To be happening so very fast; Despite all the land left free For the first time I feel somehow That it isn’t going to last, That before I snuff it, the whole Boiling will be bricked in Except for the tourist parts— First slum of Europe: a role It won’t be…

  Garden Life

  31st Aug 2022

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  Edward Seago, Environment, Opinion, Philip Larkin, Poetry