Nature diaries

Oh how behind I have fallen writing up my dairy notes the past week or so. I have been making daily scribbles in my journal but life ran awa

Today was a heatwave and my thermometer registered 30 degrees in Mulbarton, Norfolk. Waves of glorious perfume filled my nostrils from an unknown plant nearby as I walked, the first time I've experienced such smells in the middle of the meadow grass.

I always anticipated that the separation between my wildlife walks and my office life would remain quite separate but I've been trying to overlap the two of late. Windows open, Robins and Blackbirds calling, hot brews made from herbs from my garden and regular walks and stretches looking up into the trees.