Puffins Galore
Finally, after wanting to go for over a year I was on the May Princess heading to the biggest puffin colony in the UK: The Isle of May. After hearing about this little island from various people who’d been, I was itching to go. I …
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Attack Of The Gulls
This is intimidating, I thought to myself as I inched forwards along the grass path amongst the abundance of gulls on this tiny island. My heart was racing. Keeping my head low and putting my hands over the crown of my head trying to protect …
Photography Feeds My Creative Practice
I’d been wanting a new camera for a while as my old compact camera, my second hand DSLR and smartphone camera haven’t been able to take the sort of photos of birds I’d envisioned. Not quite capturing the finer details for me. Not like the …
Birds Help Me To Get Unstuck
Ironically I’ve been a bit stuck with publishing my blog posts since I was on a writing retreat at the end of June. I’d been so inspired there that I was raring to go when I got home, only to find myself right back in …
10 Day Dutch Beauty Challenge
Whilst I was visiting my parents and brother in The Netherlands last month I decided to set myself another fun little challenge. If you read my blog regularly, you may remember I had set myself a challenge when I was in The Netherlands for an …
How I Came To Love Birds
I love birds. They inspire me. It wasn’t always this way though. I remember I loved animals as a child, but then somewhere along the line I lost interest in them (even though at one point I’d wanted to be a vet!), and instead turned …
The Beauty I Love Is What I Do
“Let the beauty we love be what we do” – Rumi One of the beauties I love is Nature. Birds, landscapes, plants, flowers, wildlife, everything in nature. I love being in nature, too. Last October, on our monthly mini-adventure, my lovely friend Heather and I …
A Fun Little 21 Day Challenge
A few days ago I set myself a fun little challenge to do whilst I am spending time in the Netherlands over Christmas and New Year. If you didn’t already know, I was born and brought up in the Netherlands, and my parents, who are …
Mini-Adventure: Bird Watching With My Dad
Last week I had a few days off and enjoyed Easter at my Mum and Dad’s place in The Netherlands. It’s where I was born and brought up, though my parents are English and are long-term expats there. So far, in total, I’ve lived about …
Road Trip: Scotland
I know it’s been a while since my last post – where does the time go? Unfortunately, I was poorly for a month. Immediately following that I went on a month’s travelling adventure. I am now back from road tripping around the UK: seeing friends …