30 Days Wild 2021 – Day Twenty-three.

Day 23: Gaining inspiration from last year’s 30 Days Wild, Wednesdays will be RAW days, meaning Random Acts of Wildness. In this series I’ll be using The Wildlife Trusts’ 30 Days Wild app, and the 365 Days Wild book to help choose the day’s theme.

Today’s RAW is: do a litter pick.

Littering is one of my pet hates. I never knew how cluttered with rubbish my local park was until I took a bag and my litter picker. In fact I should have brought a bigger bag as the litter I picked was only a fraction that was still left. Among the rubbish there were ten masks, plastic cups and bottles, fast food wrappers and lots of crisp and sweet packets.

Litter Pick

Litter collected

Have you joined in a litter pick?

Thanks for reading, and stay wild!

Christine xx

30 Days Wild 2021 – Day Sixteen.

Day 16: Gaining inspiration from last year’s 30 Days Wild, Wednesdays will be RAW days, meaning Random Acts of Wildness. In this series I’ll be using The Wildlife Trusts’ 30 Days Wild app, and the 365 Days Wild book to help choose the day’s theme.

Today’s RAW is, explore a wild place. 

Recently I took Riley for a walk to a local cemetery, one I hadn’t visited in such a long time and yet it’s not far from home. Toxteth Park Cemetery was opened 9th June 1856 and is grade II listed. The cemetery is also a location of Commonwealth Graves with 274 service personnel interred, the majority from the First World War. We took an hour long, leisurely walk around the cemetery with mum alongside and looked at some of the headstones we passed. There were rich families from Victorian Liverpool resting alongside orphans and modern day Liverpudlians. Social history was clearly evident with inscriptions of children not living passed a year, highlighting the plight of high child mortality in Victorian Britain. There was even one grave of a man who had died in an explosion on the RMS Mauretania.

Toxteth Park Cemetery

A Cat!

Riley

Toxteth Park Cemetery

Dog roses

War Grave

 

But we were there looking for signs of wildlife. There were many bees flying between the headstones and the odd grey squirrel jumping about, but it was the bird life that was abundant. We saw wood pigeons, starlings, sparrows and a thrush. At one stage even a black backed gull wandered along the pathways. 

Have you visited an unusual spot looking for wildlife?

Thanks for reading, and stay wild!

Christine xx

30 Days Wild 2021 – Day Two.

Day 2: Gaining inspiration from last year’s 30 Days Wild, Wednesdays will be RAW days, meaning Random Acts of Wildness. In this series I’ll be using The Wildlife Trusts’ 30 Days Wild app, and the 365 Days Wild book to help choose the day’s theme.

Today’s theme is to sew wildflower seeds. In the 30 Days Wild postal pack, there was a free packet of wild flower seeds, which I shall scatter and come back to at the end of the month.

Sewing Wildflower Seeds

Below is a short video of sewing the wildflower seeds. They all came out of the packet together but I raked them around the pot and patted down the soil, then gave a generous amount of water. I wonder what will grow? Hopefully there will be borage, foxglove and yarrow among the seeds. I’ll come back to the seeds later in June.

Have you grown anything from seed?

Thanks for reading, and stay wild!

Christine xx

30 Days Wild 2020 – Day Seventeen.

Day 17: For today’s RAW or Random Act of Wildness, The Wildlife Trusts’ 30 Days Wild app has chosen: inhale a wild scent – take a few seconds to inhale a wildflower, plant or leaves.  

So, I spent a leisurely couple of minutes pottering about the yarden.

I have a few herbs growing in the yarden so I made a bee line for them. Crushing some leaves between my finger and thumb I sampled the scents of fennel, lavender, rosemary and mint. The feathery leaves of the fennel released a very potent scent. Whereas the lavender was much easier on the nose and Artie loved the mint!

What’s your favourite wild scent? Mine has to be the headyness of hawthorne flowers.

Thanks for reading, and stay wild!

Christine x

30 Days Wild 2020 – Day Three.

Day 3: Whilst planning this years 30 Days Wild I decided to name Wednesdays as RAW, meaning Random Acts of Wildness. In this series I’ll be using The Wildlife Trusts’ 30 Days Wild app, to help choose the day’s theme.

So without further ado, here’s today’s RAW: brew a leafy tea. I decided to try oregano tea as I have it growing abundantly in the yarden.

Here’s what I did: 

Oregano Tea

• I chopped a sprig of fresh oregano from the yarden, washed it and chopped the leaves into small pieces.
• I then boiled the kettle and poured a measure of one american cup of hot water.
• I poured over the chopped oregano leaves in a cup and left to seep for up to five minutes.
• I sieved as much of the oregano leaves as possible and added a drizzle of honey.
• Adding honey was much needed as the tea was strong and bitter without it.

My verdict, I think I’ll keep my oregano on top of pizzas, it wasn’t a pleasant drink. Oregano has many healing properties from easing colds to boosting the immune system and aiding in the reduction of inflammation.

Have you tried oregano tea? What is your favourite herbal tea?

Thanks for reading, and stay wild!

Christine x