Archives for posts with tag: nature

A beautiful tree with round fruit on. I’m not sure what it is but it looked lovely against the blue sky.

Reading the end of my book at my desk when I should have been working.

Egg fried rice and Eton mess at Jen and Fiona’s new place.

Eurostar straight through to Amsterdam.

Botanical garden.

Finally sorted out all my photos and deleted LOADS and found some real gems.

Extra volunteer day with staff and no Syd or Louisa. We got loads done and it was nice to chat to Alison.

A Louisa hug as I left.

Louisa’s Wetlands.

I saw the fox twice.

Talking about mental health in the MHA meeting.

Sitting out in the sun for a respite from my screen.

Sitting in the sun at lunchtime and feeling it warm my legs.

Syd’s backstories for the park people.

Autumn colours.

Walking the Wetlands with Jen.

Hearing Rizzo called out on the radios.

The snake eyes.

A successful Islam and nature walk. And so happy the sun came out for it.

The draft excluding snake I’ve made for Jen and Fiona. I love its little eyes.

Figs.

The garden centre.

Remembering things I didn’t realise I’d forgotten, chatting to Caroline in the van.

Sally, on Teams.

Kew Gardens

Jen

Sexy badger

Allison and Sylvia.

Putting the vulva booklet into canva.

A big beautiful daisy.

Someone I don’t know bought one of my bowls.

Chocolate and sofa and a cat nearby.

My massive courgette plants.

Highgate woods.

Carrot cake and a coffee.

Bake Off.

The beautiful colours of the almost turning trees on the wall around Arundel.

Seeing a hot air balloon in the distance on the train back and remembering when dad and I cycled to SM to see the balloons when I was a kid.

Dinner with Jonny, bitching about the world.

Show and tell at the monthly walk. It was another lovely walk.

High Steaks – she mentioned me and I’m on the back of her leaflet which is bonkers!

Spending time with Rosie

Ranking swear words with the volunteers.

Watching butterflies dance together.

Talking about periods and vulvas for a students project.

Realising I was identifying trees on my walk to work after starting the course yesterday.

Going the scenic route to the food bank and getting to stroke a study old dog.

Food bank was really fun tonight. Nice people, great cakes and I know what I’m doing. It just felt fun and easy.

The squirrel at lunch.

Elvie is actually quite cute.

Garlicy, cheesy, courgette rice. With freshly picked courgettes.

A herd of deer.

Woodlands and a stream. Obviously I put my hands in it.

The bizarrely huge landscape of corn fields. It felt almost Mongolian.

A long doughnut.

Korean tofu curry.

Spitalfields city farm. They are growing so much veg and the animals were cute too. It’s changed so much since I worked there.

Chucking the squirrel a tomato at lunchtime.

The cute boy and his very neat colouring in.

Meeting Wendy. She’s funny.

The two new sunflowers growing where the old sunflower got ripped off.

Taking a moment to sit and listen to the birds this morning.

Getting a gynae appointment for tomorrow.

Making a delicious dinner that was a bit different and healthy.

Picking the dried Honesty. It’s so pretty. And it’s nice to walk the streets with a big bunch of flowers.

The smell of the earth after it rained.

A quiet walk in Epping Forest, just me and the trees.

Listening to the rustles in the dry grass.

That first taste of korma. I’ve not had it in so long and the coconut taste is delicious.

The heron at Camley Street.

Shopping in Waitrose.

Chatting to Louise and Alison more

A ridiculous but tasty dinner.

Louise was back for volunteer day. I really like her.

I got to pick blackberries from the secret place I’ve never been to before.

Seeing a slow worm for the first time, as I walked to work.

Watching the fledglings flying with their parents.

Picking tomatoes, courgettes and blackberries from work to eat. #wholesome

Watching three white butterflies dance together at lunch.

Cooler weather.

A raspberry and pistachio bun at the food bank.

Waking up and seeing my new wall hanging. And Sally seemed genuinely impressed.

A morning outside repotting plants, planting out garlic and sweeping.

Leaving therapy feeling lighter than I went in.

The butterfly walk and seeing people so excited by spotting them.

Listening to A British Scandal.

Seeing my living room tidy and hoovered.

Dinner with Rosie.

Planting out the sunflowers.

Starting to organise the stationery cupboard