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🌿MY first full day at home with my girls – loving the sunshine and garden crafts.  FINALLY did our hapa zome printing – just need some old flowers (though not dried out), old white cloth and a mallet of sorts, mind your fingers! PLACE the flowers on half a square of material, fold over and bosh out your pattern …. very therapeutic 😊💐💐🌿🌿

💐 What to do with old flowers …. potions, fairy doll dressing, hapa zome printing? 💐

💚WE are in worrying times at the moment with lots of changes to process.  THERE is a lot of information out there and LOTS of suggestions as to what to do with YOUR time will be made.  I will post some ideas on here and the Facebook group page Nature Noodles which can be done in the garden.  These are ONLY suggestions … there is NO pressure, NO expectations and NO end goal. I would only ask that you take care and be kind to yourself💚

🌿HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 2019 was the end of the Sustrans Greener Greenways initiative BUT the work is there for ALL to see and enjoy: the hedging, hazel circle, bat hotel 🦇 and painted tool container along the Brampton Valley Way.  WE have enjoyed bat & ecology walks n talks, planted trees & wildflowers and been very grateful for the help given in the form of work at the site (the CHAIR!) and support for the Greener Greenways event (Noodlefest!) to turn the site into an area which families enjoy visiting and playing in and take an active interest in the nature on our doorstep.  Many thanks to Sustrans – Sim & David – and we wish them all the best in their new adventures and to everyone who has been involved.💚🌿🌿

🌿🌿NOW the site is drying out and we having a break so I can do some SERIOUS planning BUT 2020 will have more exciting adventures planned and I will post on here as soon as I can make it all official …. IN the meantime have LOTS of fun outdoors adventures!💚🌿🌿

🌿🌿🦊THERE is no Friday Foxes 🦊 session running today NOT because it is raining BUT because the site is so flooded as to make it unusable 🌿🦊

🌿🌿WISHING everyone a lovely festive holiday, whatever you do and however you celebrate.  There will be no sessions running for the first part of the year to give the site a chance to dry out …. BUT there is lots being planned with new adventures and sites planned💚🌿🌿

🌿A SUPER flooded site again for the Friday Foxes 🦊 this afternoon …. we had the chance to look for puddles (not hard!), make dens, have a story, feed the wildlife and wax leaves …  🍁  🍃 🍂 🦊🌿🌿

🌿LOVELY sessions this week with Nature Noodles and the Friday Foxes 🦊 MAKING natural decorations and decorating an Elder tree, using tools and waxing leaves 🍁.  Coming TOGETHER for some hide n seek and den building with hot chocolate “THIS is the LIFE”💚 and then the sun came out after the rain and we enjoyed our fire and some fun with some tinsel tree decorating 🎄🌿🌿

🌿I stayed and watched the embers burn down as the sun set …. enjoying some nurture time for me 💚🌿🌿

🌿Many thanks not ONLY to Sustrans for my lovely thoughtful award BUT to EVERYONE who has been involved in ANY way, shape or form whether it is from volunteering to help clear the site, litter pick, attend Sustrans workdays and of course if you have got OUT there by attending any of the sessions.  Special thanks, as ever, go to Pat for her support 😊🌿🌿

🌿🌿THIS project has always been VERY personal for me and I am very grateful to have had this opportunity to meet everyone who has been involved 💚🌿🌿

🦊A lovely bright Friday Foxes session today looking at the fungi 🍄, cutting some willow and making crowns 💚🦊.  We had some Robins follow us around all session and one little guy stayed with me until the end …. 🐦

🌿Thank you for coming & have a lovely weekend 😊🌿🌿

🌿🌿THANKS to the Woodland Trust for their FAB tree pack … TREE planting & fungi spotting time today 🍄🍄🌳🌳💚🌿🌿

🌿 🐉 LOVE this from today … along with exploring & splashing, hiding & seeking, some collecting and craft making with a last minute splash around 😊🌿🌿