Category: nature
-
Taking the Guards Off Tree Planting
What’s happening where you live to regenerate the environmental damage we’ve inflicted? Where I live, an area with below average tree – coverage the council is planting a tree for every resident; about 700,000 trees. The plan is to reach carbon – neutrality targets by 2030. The planet is hotter than ever with an 1.2C…
-
Day – Cation 2: Urban Retreat
Who hasn’t retreated in some way over the last eighteen months in one way or another? We’ve had to retreat into our homes, gardens, home offices and green spaces in order to survive the interminable lockdowns and restrictive measures put in place by governments to contain a deadly virus. We’ve considered ourselves fortunate if we…
-
Day – Cation: Time in the here and now
With so many away currently I decided to take advantage of the stillness and see how a day – break could work for me. Shelving the ongoing search for a perfect holiday here or abroad and leaving my lap top was a happy time and there was quite some activity in the wilderness. My quest…
-
Live On Our Towers
life during lockdown
-
Crows or blackbirds: an omen or not?
I know black crows are supposed to herald bad news but I haven’t heard it about blackbirds. Good job as there’s an abundance of them at the moment where I am. The brambles have been buzzing with nests and one of the mothers in particular is so excited by her task of rearing them, constantly…
-
UK mild climate over
Change in weather looks set to continue
Charnwood News 