52 Weeks Wild #38

A collection of my wild moments from the past week...

The week began with Wildlings again and it was such a calm, pleasant morning. It started with mist, then the sun came out and there wasn't even a hint of a breeze (which was a bit odd up here!). 18 toddlers came out to play and as well as the usual activities (hammocks, mud kitchen, den building, bug hunting and such we had some water and mud painting and made chocolate bread on the fire.

The bread recipe at this session was slightly different to any bread I've ever done before with the Wildlife Trusts and it was so good!  We folded in a couple of chocolate buttons too.

This week we have, of course, transitioned into Autumn with the equinox on Friday. The past week has had a very autumnal feel to it around here, a few cold and foggy mornings, spider webs everywhere, inversions... 

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I'll end with this photo of a water lily in bloom in the garden pond this week.

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52 Weeks Wild #37

A collection of my wild moments from the past week...

As I've mentioned here already, I spent Monday morning outdoors, getting wet and windswept at a Wildlings session with a group of toddlers. There are more photos in my previous post but here's a few from the morning...

Aside from Monday, I've not spent any real time outdoors, just had little moments again...

Garden spider

A ladybird between showers

I was in Matlock Bath last night and this cricket appeared in front of me on the ground from somewhere. She's the first cricket I've ever seen in Derbyshire. It was a busy evening so I picked her up to take her somewhere safer and then a mum spotted me and I ended up showing her children before I relocated it :)

How was your week?

Wet and Windy Wildlings

I had a lovely morning yesterday, spending the morning at Home, running the second Wildlings session at The Roaches... it was so windy and the heavy showers just kept on coming, but I still had a great morning outdoors! Amazingly, we had 14 children join us, aged between 6 months and 4 years old, who trekked up the hill in the pouring rain to come and play!

We had a mud kitchen, bug hunting, scavenger hunts, colouring and journey sticks plus toasting marshmallows over the fire and a story and a snack to finish.

I'm always happy outdoors and it was nice to be able to do some term time wildplay. I love the autumnal colours taking over the landscape now. The only downside was having to rush off, soaked through to the skin, to change by the car (in the rain!) and get over to school in time to set up for my phonics lesson! Nobody at school seemed to notice my worse than usual bedraggled-ness so I got away with looking like I'd been dragged in through the hedge too! Monday mornings are so much better for a bit of wild time :)

52 Weeks Wild #36

A collection of my wild moments from the past week...

The first week back at school after the summer holiday... it was a tough week - working extra because it was the first week of term, tradesmen at the house to deal with, car into garage for a couple of days... so much to do I didn't spend any time outdoors and thought I wouldn't have anything for this week's post, but looking at my photos from this week I didn't do as badly as I thought.

All these photos were taken because I had to take a photo each day for my 365 project. I always turn to nature, to outdoors, for 365 but my project this week has shown me that no matter how busy life is, I can always take a moment to notice nature.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday (a noon fly)

Sunday

52 Weeks Wild #35

A collection of my wild moments from the past week...

The last week of the school holidays :(

I had hoped for a bit of time off, some good time outdoors, ending the holidays feeling relaxed and organised... things didn't go to plan and the past week has been busy with a lot happening and a few things not working out causing a lot of stress and annoyance..

I did catch a sunset as I finished at the house one evening...

and enjoyed the morning mists at home.

Another sunset finish at the house, watching swallows and house martins before washing up the paint brushes.