We Love Outdoor Play
Play England have launched a fantastic ‘Love Outdoor Play’ campaign for Valentines Day. Basically if you love outdoor play – like we do – send your MP or Councillor a Valentines card asking them to love outdoor play too –… Read More
I have a secret – I am officially a criminal.
It’s true; I regularly break the law…most weekends in fact. Before you get images of shop-lifting, drug-taking or property destruction…it’s a far more ‘middle-classed’ version of illegal.
I am a guerrilla gardener!
Most weekends my husband and I walk our… Read More
We need to talk about … the weather.
We need to talk about … the weather.
Well of course we do, we’re British and if we didn’t, we might have to talk about our feelings and then the whole carefully crafted edifice might fall apart. But my fundamentally… Read More
It’s a Dog’s Life!
It’s a Dog’s Life!
No – really it is. I have just had the pleasure of spending three unscheduled days off with only my pooches for company and therefore feel entirely qualified to confess that, should this reincarnation thing be… Read More
Am I Annoying Myself with My Antisocial Behaviour or Not?
‘What’s the difference between a weed and wild flower?’ This is a question that came our way during our marathon wildflower seed bomb making sessions at BBC Gardeners World Live. Now I’m sure there is a really scientific answer that… Read More
What Have We Been Up To?
Apologies we’ve been a bit inactive on the blog front recently, however we’ve seen an unprecedented – well for the want of a better phrase ‘period of madness’. Although it is generally always busy up at LT Towers, the last… Read More
The Joys of Spring
I’m not being seasonalist but I’m mighty glad spring is here! My colleagues in finance and development may disagree as they toil relentlessly against the madness that is the end of the financial year. However, as for me, I’m a… Read More
Tis not like it was in My Day!
In my recent rant in response to the Play England findings that children aren’t playing outside anymore, I made the assertion that the crux… Read More
Cotton Wool Children Don’t Play Outside : The might if they had somewhere to play
Wrapping Our Children in Cotton Wool is stopping them enjoying outdoor play, an article in today’s Daily Mail reports, highlighting some depressing statistics from Play England http://mrkt.ms/wgtQ6L
Here’s some of the highlights (well lowlights):-
“children are less than a… Read More
New years resolutions? Pah. Quit while you’re ahead.
I tried out a few new years resolutions in the first two weeks of January, and pleasingly quickly found that none of them really fit the bill: after three days of obsessive eating, no-meat-no-wheat was axed after a trip to… Read More
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