The past six weeks have been hectic. It feels like my feet haven’t touched the ground as I interpret wee beasties for all and sundry. Each day different than the last. And you dear reader are so lucky because I am about to ...
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Getting to the Art of the Matter with Rewilding
So since May I've been involved in a fever of forums, funding and festivals, all flipping fantastic.
Rewilding in Inverclyde and Yoker
TCV's Green Gym at Coves Local Nature Reserve has begun as part of the Community ...
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Sunshine, Mud Kitchens, Bushcraft and much more!
Hello, well it has been another busy few months at the Tree Life Centre with lots of travelling! This blog will cover my antics in May and June and there has been lots going on! We have experienced some beautiful warm weather ...
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Wild Ways Well
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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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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