Pond skimming

My Nature nymph is loving her new surroundings and the chance to go pond skipping at Dunwich was irresistible tucked in among the beautiful purple heather and the bright yellow gorse flower bushes we across a pond with a pond skipping experts from the national trust.

Grabbing her trusty net to hand Sophie got on with scooping through the mud, water and reeds to see what she could catch.   

With her own finders tray she was whooping with delight when her net brought up beastie after beastie, all the time asking OOH whats this and look at this one.

She was so thrilled to catch all sorts of things from newts to dragonfly lava, below are some of her bugs she caught, she is so hooked on pond skimming that she has asked daddy to build her a pond in the back garden.

Dunwich also has a really large nature reserve just check out this wonderful heather growing there 

Autumn Crown

 Every year we love to go out and explore the change in season from summer to autumn. As we  say goodbye of warm heady days of fragrant flowers these change to the dry seed heads ready for a new year and the crisp nippy air lets us know that soon we will be snuggled up in front of the fire. We watch as each day leave change from green to brown and hedgerows burst forth with burnt orange foliage and bright reds berries.

One thing we love to do is collect nature treasure we find on our walks and in autumn turn these into autumn crowns.

 Sophie is such a nymph of the woods she loves all thing nature and is not afraid to pick up a toad or a daddy long legs to have a closer look and wont fear tromping through the undergrowth wadding past nettle and thistle to see what is growing.

Here is some of the treasure she found we especially love the acorn burst out of what looked like another seed case.

 When we got home Sophie helped as we plated up 3 strands of willow and she used the plated holes to tuck her nature treasures into to make her autumn crown.

Gone Crabbing

Its been a month since i have written anything and it feels like 6, life has been really hectic with our big relocate.  We have been out exploring our new surroundings and have had a lot of fun exploring a new beach every single weekend and each one very different, i really love the countryside beautiful landscapes and the light seems different here more crystal clear, everything is more relaxed, calm and the aspirational life we were looking for.

One of our jaunts was out to Walberswick a quaint and beautiful little village next to the sea with a large river that runs down to the coast, of course the perfect place for a harbor with lots of little fishing boats that you can buy fresh fish from.

What i love about the culture round here is everyone seems to have there own little shops outside their houses and boats selling anything from flowers and veg to unwanted things to home made goodies,  we found this little stall selling little badges, how cool.

One thing Walberwick is infamous for is crabbing.  We now have our own crabbing kit and love crabbing as it is loads of fun, we caught loads of crabs big and small.  Sophie seemed to have the perfect knack and caught the most.  Ella who couldn't catch any crabs was still intrigued by the buckets of squiggling crabs.

After tempting the crustaceans out of the river with slabs of bacon i showed Sophie how to get up close to the crabby kind, she didn't need to be asked twice and loved holding the crabs.  However daddy was petrified and refuse to hold one Ha Ha !  of course we had to tip out the crabs and watch them scuttle off back down to the river.