This blog comes courtesy of once-Hurricane Bertha. The current spate of bad weather means that I currently can't get out onto the hills, leaving me with time to briefly reflect on some highlights of the past few months. Every ...
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A Woolly Winter Update
It's been a while since my last post - sorry! - as I've been in a special kind of ecologist's hibernation through the winter. However, spring is now well underway and I've pulled myself away from the microscopes and put the ...
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Fungi Days: Sharing, Learning.
And breathe! I wasn't sure who would come along for a woodland fungi walk on a recent chilly morning, but I was pleased to be joined by enthusiastic volunteers from the Wood for All project of Transition Stirling. The past ...
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Mushrooms and Mountains
Only during several train journeys have I been able to steal moments for drafting this blog entry, as we're well into autumn now and apprenticeship life has taken a turn for the hectic. I have been immersed in the weird world ...
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Festivals and Feeling Feral
The city was cold with sea mist (which as a non-Scot I now know to call haar) when mentor Lindsay and I left very early for Grey Mare's Tail. I was tired, having returned from a training course very late the night before - ...
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