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Monthly Archives: July 2017
Postscript
As a postscript to my last post, I was recently reading about the cities of the world with the most trees. There’s a very cool-looking website put together by MIT called Treepedia where they are charting the green canopy of … Continue reading
Posted in Making changes, Wildlife
Tagged Access to Nature, green canopy, green spaces, MIT, Treepedia, Vancouver
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Beating the Bounds – again!
I have been back walking my loops of the parish boundary (read why here and here). The other evening I rejoined the boundary at the medieval stone cross on the old road to Plymouth. The surface of the road has … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged animal cell, beating the bounds, biology, children, Dan Richards, Devon Wildlife Trust, Dove Grey Reader, education, enclosure act, exeter, golgi apparatus, green circle, green space, Hannah Foley, holloway, illustration, illustrator, John Clare, kids, Local Nature Reserve, lysosomes, natural history, nature, nucleus, orange, red, ribosomes, ridgeway, Robert MacFarlane, rough endoplasmic reticulum, science, smooth endoplasmic reticulum, Stanley Donwood, walking, yellow, yellow ants
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Grounded
We found this poor chap in our garden yesterday! He must have been brought down by the storm. He’s a Jersey Tiger moth which is a rare day-flying moth. Sadly it’s just a bit rarer now. Little Owl carefully placed … Continue reading
After the Storm
Yesterday an enormous storm rolled in and blew the power at Radio Devon. The kids and I watched in awe from the window as rain pounded the garden. Counting the seconds between lightening strike and thunder clap, the storm stalked … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged After the Storm, badges, biology, black out, blue, brook lamprey, brown, Brown trout, Brownies, chalk stream, children, damselfly, devon, education, end of term, families, fine-lined pea mussel, fish, green, Hannah Foley, health visitor, hollyhocks, illustration, illustrator, kids, lesser water parsnip, natural history, non-fiction, paediatrician, Percy the Park Keeper, radio devon, reports, Salmon, sports day, stick collection, storm, stream water crowfoot, summer holidays, teachers, UK, walking, water river stream, water starwort, water vole, watercress, white-clawed crayfish, wildlife
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Mad hattiness
Wren and Finch are big fans of carbohydrates. They would live entirely on bread, potatoes and pasta if they could. Finch’s potato passion reached new heights with this season’s jersey royals so he was utterly disgusted when we made a … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged amphibians, baby, biology, carbohydrates, children, dancing, education, europe, flower pots, frog, garden, Hannah Foley, hat, illustration, illustrator, jersey royals, kids, lost property, natural history, nature, park, potato salad, potatoes, salamander, school run, toad, wildlife
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July Flowers
July is the prime time for British wildflowers. It is the longest section in Margaret Erskine Wilson’s book Wildflowers of Britain Month by Month. Down by the river new flowers are taking centre stage: up steps yarrow, meadowsweet and dittander. … Continue reading