Who knows – Julia Pietrucha

Order Order – Questions to Secretary of State of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

On the hotest day since records began, i was crawling around London on M25 from our home on fairly long journey across England. When i set off about 7am the temperature in my car was a reasonable 22 degrees but in two hours climbed to 32 and most of journey home an extrordinary 39 degrees. […]

Storks

The German Stork route or Deutsche Storchenstrasse is also a scenic route through north Germany. The route travels around Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, and Lower Saxony centering around the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Elbe River Landscape. Another interesting link if you like Storks – is the Stork village in Bergenhusen where you may catch them […]

Extreemily stinky Comfrey Liquid Fertiliser

Light

Happiest outside and to be honest, as our garden is a little overgrown, face down – pulling weeds or clipping hedges or bushes into different shapes. One bush resembles a very large chicken and another until we cut it back, the lock ness monster. Most of our vegetables are growing well – experimenting with growing […]

One Republic – Counting Stars

no words

Vrmm Vrmm

Don’t look back in anger – Oasis

White Horses

After the big day

Beethoven – Silence

4 Non Blondes

T Rex

Always

Scottish Rural Network

Put up this link ro Scottish Rural Network so can find my way back to it , thought other people might be interested who are longing for wilder way of living and maybe wondering how they can make it work. Found its bigger than just Scotland – a link on the site to storytelling in […]

Baby bird

There is a family of blackbirds living in a honeysuckle bush on the back of our house. This is the first time they have nested there perhaps because this bush has become a little overgrown. The parents swoop in and out of the nest with a wiggly worm and call to each other when they […]

After the rain

Storks

Storks and baby storks – When they are big & strong enough in August or early September – the baby storks fly away to overwinter as far as South Africa or India, unlikely they return to their original nest but come back to the same area in April. Storks have a long life.

Beware sleeping gas gang in France on roadside rest areas known as Aires de Service

We travelled to France for a few days recently and not being able to find somewhere to sleep one night, pulled over on a roadside layby in northern France called an ‘Aire de Service’ where truckers also hold up before they make the crossing home on the A16 (Calais-Dunkirk) motorway. Very late and soon asleep […]