Month: May 2016

  • Let’s Go Fly a Kite

    Someone had mentioned on Twitter that a Red Kite had been spotted a few miles from here several days ago. I don’t know much about Kites, but the local Buzzards seems to have a wide ranging territory, so I’d hoped to take a walk in that general direction at some point, to see if I could…

  • The Sacred Truth fresh face mask

    The Sacred Truth fresh face mask

    Did you know that if you take in 5 empty (and clean!) full-size black Lush pots into a Lush store, you can exchange them for a free fresh face mask? Yes, you read that right – free! Considering that the fresh face masks usually cost £6.75, that’s a very generous gift just for taking back the…

  • 30 Days Wild – 4th May

    Walking from the city centre, you pass a lot of busy roads with the inevitable traffic jams. But hidden away in a side road, you can find some fantastically bright tree blossom. This particular tree caught the sunlight as we walked past, and as it’s on a particularly steep hill, it was a good excuse to stop and admire the tree blossom…