Regular readers may be forgiven for thinking that my job in Cumbernauld mainly involves wandering around its green spaces in the sunshine, going on training courses, smelling poo, chatting with bumblebees and identifying ...
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Archives for 2016
A Very Central Scotland Spring
Hi everyone from gloomy Shotts, where June feels like November (minus the darkness and the snow, so not very much like November at all). It's hard to believe it now that the skies are back to their usual grey, but we just had ...
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May’s been pretty aMAYzing
Ok so my puns haven’t been all that amazing recently, but my adventures with TCV certainly have! I mentioned in the last blog that I was preparing to run my first ever event. As part of Falkirk Nature Festival I was asked to ...
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Bug-ingham palace and other puns
at naturefest
As a massive yellow orb came out from behind the clouds and mysteriously heated everything up this month, my traineeship also heated up (metaphorically speaking, (could you imagine the traineeship actually ...
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Blog 2.0 Now with added Bluebells
First of all, this blog is a slightly belated one, so my apologies, but it’s just been so busy! I’ve been keeping a little tally and so far I’ve attended 40 events and spoken to over 3100 people. That’s a lot of talking – ...
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All work and no play – not a chance
Holidaying around Hawick
So to avoid being in Tim's bad books I took a weeks holiday in May and as luck would have it one of the best weather wise. Even on holiday though, a Natural Network Trainee is always on the look ...
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Exchanging Green Ideas
One of my first tasks as a trainee was to organise a FEVA event - that's a Forum for Environmental Volunteering Activities - half a day full of local speakers and workshops to share ideas around promoting green health in ...
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Blog 1
Hi, My name is Matt, and I’m a TCV Natural Networks trainee based in Kent down in the South East of England.
This is my first blog as a natural networks trainee, actually it’s my first blog ever… so I shall begin at the ...
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My weirdly spiritual encounter with a wall, and a caddis fly
A few weeks ago, I would never have thought that I would ever be excited about walls, or proud of a wall for that matter! But this month I signed up to one of TCV’s courses in Drystone Walling, or dry stone dyking as it’s ...
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VAT’s The Way I Like It
As well as awash with showers, April's been filled with events, training opportunities and rewilding.
Initially though the month started with a community consultation led by Urban Roots on ideas for the Broomloan Road ...
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