ADVENTURES OF THE #TinyExplorer

"I spy coltsfoot, bursts of sunshine from the disturbed ground. White-tailed bumblebees drink and collect hungrily. Dandelions and their allies...

"In the Spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt." MARGARET ATWOOD Allotments are the ultimate way to live the Good Life, bypa...

"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...

“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 ...

"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 ...

"Teaching children about the natural world should be one of the most important events in their lives." 

THOMAS BERRY

“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...

"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...

“The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather int...

 “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...

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.

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...