Posted on June 11, 2022
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Litter Free Leeds is hoping to turn the city purple this weekend – with purple bags filled with litter, all picked up by volunteers wanting to make a difference in their community. I wanted to join in so I got in touch with my… Continue Reading “Leeds Goes Purple”
Posted on June 28, 2018
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Summer walks with the children.
Category: childhood, Nature, UncategorizedTags: children, hiking, insects, ladybirds, nature, nature photography, outdoors, parenting, photography, seasons, summer, walking, wildlife
Posted on April 28, 2018
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Waiting by the ocean Waiting by the shore Clouds are hanging, cloaking Sunlight, grey and raw. Beach lies glinting wetly Tide breaks like a sigh Pebbles crackling, crunching ‘Neath the slate tile sky Winkles, whelks and starfish Rays and sprays and gulls Bladderwrack and… Continue Reading “Take me to the Ocean”
Category: Nature, observation, pagan, poetry, seasons, Uncategorized, writingTags: beach, GloPoWriMo, GloPoWriMo 2018, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo 2018, nature, ocean, outdoors, pagan, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poets, sea, seaside, seasons, shore, spring, wildlife, writing, yorkshire
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 June 23, 2017
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Category: Nature, pagan, UncategorizedTags: cooking, food, insects, ladybird, midsummer, nature, nature photography, outdoors, pagan, photography, ragwort, salsify, Solstice, summer, summer solstice, tagine, wildlife, wildlife photography
Posted on October 24, 2016
by mabhsavage
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Re-sharing for #mondayblogs as we’ve been feeding the birds more and more recently, now it’s becoming colder. We’ve also inadvertently been feeding the squirrels too. Read the original post here.
Category: Nature, Uncategorized, writingTags: birds, garden, gardening, monday blogs, mondayblogs, nature, outdoors, squirrels, wildlife, wildlife garden
Posted on March 18, 2016
by mabhsavage
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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… Continue Reading “Feeding the Birds”
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 June 14, 2014
by mabhsavage
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Sweating stress from a heavy day at the office, as I walk into my garden there is that immediate relief of being enclosed by one’s hearth and home. My little boy is away at his father’s tonight, so there is an itchy emptiness, but… Continue Reading “Friday 13th, Lucky for Some”
Category: pagan, parenting, prose, seasons, Uncategorized, writingTags: brigid, celt, Celtic, celts, friday 13th, full moon, morrigan, nature, pagan, paganism, spirituality, wildlife
Posted on August 4, 2013
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Lammas was a two day affair this year; the first day spent in heat and happiness traipsing through the wilderness with my little boy. We found cherries, blushing in the bright sun, and berries black and glossy like tiny dark eyes. After the heavy… Continue Reading “Lammas”
Category: UncategorizedTags: balance, gods, harvest, harvest festival, lammas, Lugh, lughnasa, lughnasadh, lughnasagh, pagan, photography, wheel of the year, wildlife