What a week! I hope you have found this week as reinvigorating as I have, and we are not quite done yet. This week has helped me take a step back from the everyday mundanity that is activism and has let me see just how far the entire movement has come, and how much is … Continue reading The Wildlife Trusts Hope Week 2024: Day 7 – The Final Day!
Category: Environment
The Wildlife Trusts Hope Week 2024: Day 6 – Go for a mindful walk
My husband and I are actually very bad at this, in that we usually spend our weekends going for very long walks around our area. The bad thing, is that we rarely plan to do this and are often very unprepared - a 15km walk is very much standard for us, and then we wonder … Continue reading The Wildlife Trusts Hope Week 2024: Day 6 – Go for a mindful walk
The Wildlife Trusts Hope Week 2024: Day 5 – Share your favourite place in nature
Where do I begin? Here are a few pictures of some of my favourite places: St James Park in London - especially when you see Buckingham Palace in the background! Plus there is a ton of wildlife to see, so it makes a really lovely place to explore. One of my local running routes that … Continue reading The Wildlife Trusts Hope Week 2024: Day 5 – Share your favourite place in nature
The Wildlife Trusts Hope Week 2024: Day 4 – Find an inspiring story
Today's focus is on finding some inspiring stories about the work that people are doing within conversation or within the environmental protection movement as a whole. This is such a fun activity, and it also acts as a nice reminder that you are not alone in this fight, that there are so many people out … Continue reading The Wildlife Trusts Hope Week 2024: Day 4 – Find an inspiring story
The Wildlife Trusts Hope Week 2024: Day 3 – Make a commitment
Today's focus is on making a change in your life to benefit the planet. The Wildlife Trust has a number of really helpful ideas that you can look into on their website here. The issue I am having with today though is that I am quite limited. For starters, I already try to do a … Continue reading The Wildlife Trusts Hope Week 2024: Day 3 – Make a commitment
The Wildlife Trusts Hope Week 2024: Day 2 – Be more tree
Today is all about grounding yourself. 'Grounding' is a set of simple and practical techniques designed to reconnect you to the present moment, helping you find balance, calm, and stability when things feel hectic or stressful. These techniques can be used by anyone at any time, whether at home, work, or on the go and … Continue reading The Wildlife Trusts Hope Week 2024: Day 2 – Be more tree
The Wildlife Trust Hope Week
Given everything that has happened in the past week or so, no matter where you are in the world, things are all seeming very scary. Here in the UK, that British Winter has truly set in and has gotten to the point where sunlight is slowly becoming a thing of the past. Apparently last week, … Continue reading The Wildlife Trust Hope Week
How to help pets during firework season
It is Halloween tomorrow, and here in the UK Halloween tends to signal a roughly 2 week period where we get a lot of fireworks. In the UK, we celebrate Bonfire night - also known as Guy Fawkes Night - which traditionally involves, as you can guess, bonfires and over the last few years lots … Continue reading How to help pets during firework season
Review: The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams
Book Blurb:Looking at the headlines: the worsening climate crisis, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval. It can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed.In this urgent book, Jane Goodall, the world's most famous living naturalist, and Douglas Abrams, the bestselling co-author of The Book of Joy, explore through intimate and … Continue reading Review: The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams
Floof Friday
The squirrels that live in the green space outside of my home are currently gorging themselves on the amount of food currently available. In winter, there are a few kind neighbours that appear to leave out extra food for the wildlife, but in summer people also begin to leave out more bird feeders and have … Continue reading Floof Friday
Taylor Talks Vegan 