Category: gardening
Posted on May 10, 2018
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Posted on April 20, 2018
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He says Chemical Fresh My eyes widen What a term A germ Of genius Genuine wonder At spring’s youth We blunder Through each day Crazy and way Out of line But smell that Chemical wonder Tear me asunder With laughter Tears And pollen.
Category: childhood, gardening, Nature, poetry, seasons, Uncategorized, writingTags: childhood, children, GloPoWriMo, GloPoWriMo 2018, kids, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo 2018, nature, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poets, spring, writing
Posted on August 28, 2017
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Yes, it’s a blatant take on GoT’s signature slogan, but the drama of winter is a way off (we hope) and I’m loving browsing Pinterest and Tumblr and seeing how excited folks are getting about fall, Halloween and Samhain. The primary colour is orange,…
Category: childhood, gardening, Nature, parenting, seasons, UncategorizedTags: autumn, blackberries, blogs, Brambles, childhood, fall, food, foraging, fruit, fungi, halloween, monday, monday blogs, monday Motivation, mondayblogs, nature, November, orange, outdoors, pagan, parenting, samhain, summer, writing
Posted on July 19, 2017
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I’m writing about Self Heal, prunella vulgaris, for next month’s Pagan Pages. I’m lucky enough to have some of the herb crawling over my lawn, and was even luckier to get this lovely visitor when I popped out to get some photos:
Category: gardening, Nature, observation, seasons, Uncategorized, writingTags: bee, bees, gardens, herbalism, herbs, insects, nature, outdoors, photography, plants, Self Heal, wildlife, wildlife photography, writing
Posted on July 3, 2017
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Meet Big Jim the chilli! That’s the actual name of this variety. I haven’t tried the peppers yet as this is the first. They smell sweet as opposed to fiery, but taste will tell! I haven’t grown too many plants this year what with…
Category: cooking, gardening, Nature, seasons, Uncategorized, writingTags: big jim, chilli, chillies, gardening, monday blogs, monday Motivation, mondayblogs, nature, pepper, peppers, plants
Posted on June 26, 2017
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This beautiful boy just hopped casually into the garden, flopped down, spread his wings and luxuriated in the sun. Why wouldn’t you?
Category: gardening, Nature, writingTags: animals, birds, blackbird, blackbirds, garden, gardening, monday blogs, mondayblogs, nature, outdoors, summer, sun, sun worship, sunbathing
Posted on June 20, 2017
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As this was growing, prior to flowering, it looked exactly like a gladioli. Not so much now it has flowered! I love having mystery plants move into my garden. We had some cyclamen pop up from nowhere last year. Magical!
Posted on January 31, 2017
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I was looking back through some old posts and was delighted with the flowers and offerings I photographed in 2014, so here they are again. How will you be celebrating the coming spring?
Category: followers, gardening, Nature, observation, pagan, seasons, society, UncategorizedTags: flowers, Imbolc, imbolg, nature, Oimelc, pagan, photography, religion, seasons, spirituality, spring, springtime, tumblr, worship
Posted on January 13, 2017
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Here is my ‘To Read’ or ‘To Read Again’ list for 2017. A Mystic Guide to Cleansing and Clearing by David Salisbury. I’ve read this already but am looking forward to revisiting some of the chapters when I have a bit of a clear out…
Category: childhood, education, gardening, history, mythology, Nature, pagan, prose, seasons, Uncategorized, Witchcraft, writingTags: birds, books, Celtic, David Salisbury, Elen Sentier, folklore, Friday, friday reads, fridayreads, herbalism, herbs, Irish, Legend, magic, magick, Mandrake, merlin, Morgan Daimler, mythology, Neil gaiman, Niall mac Coitir, norse, norse mythology, occult, pagan, paganism, parenting, plants, Reads, roald dahl, terry pratchett, Wolfsbane
Posted on December 3, 2016
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We took a 4 pint plastic milk jug, cut a little ‘door’ near the base, covered it in the net from some onions so the food wouldn’t fall straight through, and used Gorilla tape to cover sharp edges and stiffen the plastic. We’ve hung…
Category: education, gardening, Nature, seasons, Uncategorized, writingTags: animals, bird feeder, birds, crafting, crafts, handicrafts, homemade, nature, outdoors, winter
Posted on March 18, 2016
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That’s the silver birch in my new back garden, and that’s a string of fat balls hanging off the stump of a recently pruned branch. You see, I moved recently, and it was incredibly stressful. I’m still in a mind-numbing dispute with my…
Category: gardening, mental health, Nature, observation, pagan, seasons, Uncategorized, writingTags: bird food, birds, friday reads, fridayreads, gardening, mental health, nature, outdoors, stress, therapy, wildlife
Posted on August 28, 2015
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My friend took me for a walk around New Galloway, and amongst the brambles and cow parsley we found beautiful meadowsweet, also known as mead wort or Queen of the Meadow. Although a useful herb, especially to a home brewer like myself,…
Category: cooking, gardening, Nature, observation, seasons, UncategorizedTags: herbal, herbs, mead wort, meadowsweet, nature, walking
