Hello everyone! We got a little rain which brightened up everything outdoors!! We’re still a long way from being out of this drought, but there’s always the chance we’ll pick up some extra rain in the remaining weeks of June, before we enter the summer months ahead. This post is to confirm that we are […]
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If she were alive today, Efua Sutherland would be chalking up her 94th birthday. For the good folks at the Mmofra Foundation it is a day, an anniversary, a life to celebrate. Sutherland was a truly remarkable woman. In 1950s Accra, Ghana she was a beacon of light extolling the benefits of play and helping […]
via Playing it Forward by Honouring the Past in Accra — PlayGroundology
The Beers and Brewing: Norfolk’s Rural Pubs exhibition features some wonderful photographs sourced from Picture Norfolk. Picture Norfolk is a wonderful online database created and run by Norfolk Library & Information Service. Picture Norfolk is features over 20,000 local photographs and includes images from Local Studies Libraries, Norfolk Museums Service, Norfolk Record Office and many private collections. Search […]
Abi Duffy – Conservation Trainee One of the sounds of summer is the recognisable buzzing of busy bees. Bees are a beautiful symbol of British summertime, but much more importantly are one of the best performing pollinators vital for pollinating plants and crops across the world. Bee facts: Of the 270 species of bee to […]
via Evaluating bees — The official blog for the North York Moors National Park
How can Green Roofs improve biodiversity? The level of biodiversity on a green roof will be dependant on a number of factors including the type of green roof installed.In the past green roofs were designed with mainly engineering concerns at the top of the list such as storm water retention, energy consumption and overall building…
via How can Green Roofs improve biodiversity? — Specifier Review
No, not trying to click bait you. The spinny-thing-of-death was in fact a thing back in the heyday of the Dennis the Menace Playground in Monterey, California. There were no mortal injuries but this ‘helicopter’ would certainly be deemed a hazard in many jurisdictions today. It looks innocuous enough in still photos but watch the […]
via What’s in a Name or The Spinny-Thing-of-Death — PlayGroundology
I often publish posts about summer days out in winter to help us warm up so as we are in the middle of an exceptionally hot period of weather I shall do the opposite and publish this post I wrote in the winter in the hope it may cool us down! There were two main […]
via Snowdrops and Creative Pruning – Ivy Croft Garden — greenbenchramblings
Gardeners look at things maybe morning AND evening because that’s what gardeners do. I’ve grown impatient with those people that tell me they just don’t have a green thumb. I lay a steely eye on them and tell them to…Green thumbs are cultivated, not conferred originally appeared on Garden Rant on June 29, 2018.
via Green thumbs are cultivated, not conferred — Garden Rant
Happy Canada Day Hope you enjoy this slice of Play Canadiana as we celebrate our birthday from coast to coast to coast. Excerpted and abridged from CanadaPlays. National Treasures First up, let’s share a couple of national treasures with you. From her home in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia on Canada’s east coast, Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam creates […]
Right on the Lagos harbor there’s an old shack that houses a restaurant called A Barrigada (a full belly). It is a simple place that serves grilled fish, cataplanas and other seafood delights. Outside the restaurant, you see the fish nets and octopus traps used by some of the fishermen that supply the restaurant. The […]
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