ADVENTURES OF THE #TinyExplorer
UNDERSTANDING NATURE | BIG GARDEN BIRDWATCH
January 28, 2021
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
JOSEPH ADDISON
Th...
UNDERSTANDING NATURE | TREES & LEAVES
October 16, 2020
“As we move away from Slieve Muck, I can feel my feet treading more lightly and my heart rate start to slow - my anxiety about school flowing into ...
UNDERSTANDING NATURE | GREAT OAKS FROM LITTLE ACORNS GROW
September 25, 2020
"Great Oaks from Little Acorns Grow"
Getting kids excited, involved and engaged with nature is at the very heart of what we hope to achieve as ...
UNDERSTANDING NATURE | A LITTLE DIRT NEVER HURT
August 21, 2020
"Teaching children about the natural world should be one of the most important events in their lives."
THOMAS BERRY
UNDERSTANDING NATURE | WORLD OCEAN DAY & FIVE CHANGES FOR GOOD
June 8, 2020
“The emphasis is on all of us to consider how we can refine our lives to better protect our planet; whether it be single use plastic, our buying ha...
UNDERSTANDING NATURE | GARDEN BIRDS
April 7, 2020
"In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence."
ROBERT LYND
The beauty of the moment we find ourselves in currently is th...
UNDERSTANDING NATURE | COASTAL LIFE
March 25, 2020
“The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather int...
UNDERSTANDING NATURE | INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN DAY
December 8, 2019
“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we coul...
RNLI | INSPIRED BY OUR OCEAN HEROES
October 11, 2019
The RNLI, a truly heroic charity manned by volunteers, steeped in British seafaring traditions of selfless duty to protect those in peril on the sea and coastlines of Britain.
UNDERSTANDING NATURE | URCHINS OF THE OCEAN
August 30, 2019
I would like to introduce this blog with the disclaimer that I am in no way a marine biologist. With the attention span of a particularly erratic...
UNDERSTANDING NATURE | THE POWER OF THE OCEAN
June 28, 2019
"I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel’s kick an...
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