Last chance for early bird tickets (£35) this weekend!

3 week creative writing course focused on nature writing discussing some of my favourite writers and themes 🧙‍♀️🦔🦊🍄

Everyone welcome 🏳️‍⚧️

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Women+ Writing Nature 🧙‍♀️
With Kirsty Fox 🦊
Online creative writing course
3 weeks
From Sunday 2nd November
10.30-12.30 GMT
All genders welcome provided you're comfortable reading women's writing and up for dismantling the patriarchy 🌿🍄🦋
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Women+ Writing Nature
Online creative writing workshop, 3 weeks starting Sun 2nd Nov, 10.30am GMT
With Kirsty Fox (me!)
Early bird price £35
All genders welcome 🏳️‍⚧️

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In the latest episode of Hope in the Rising Tide, I chat to James Canton about his new book 'Renaturing' and the difference between large scale rewilding and what us little guys can do.

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Episode 8 of Hope in the Rising Tide podcast is now live.
Small ways to wild the world - an interview with James Canton about his new book Renaturing.
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Back in the studio editing the next podcast today. I had an excellent chat with James Canton last week about his book 'Renaturing' and how this differs from large scale rewilding.

Can't wait to share it with you 🌱🦔🦋

#hopeintherisingtidepod

Changeable weather. The turn of the year 🍂🌦

I put a note out for the postie and this gorgeous Herald Moth decided it was a great place nap 😴 🧡

PhD helper 🐱 positioning herself just where my elbow needs to be in order to write.

Currently writing about extinction (grim), more specifically how ill-equipped we are to handle the thought of it.

First bloomings at the wild allotment. Coltsfoot and red deadnettle have been emerging from crevices all over the place. The snakeshead fritillary in my bog garden is making its debut.

Also there's a neglected baby hedge which I think is olive - this gets overgrown by nettles in summer.

If you need a little hope boost, Episode 6 is now live. Booming Bitterns and the reedbed habitat that supports them with Joseph Klein from RSPB Leighton Moss.

Link in bio or go to hopeintherisingtide.substack.com
(We are also on S p o t i f y)

#HopeInTheRisingTide
#naturepodcast

🌼☀️🐛 Gorgeous day at the allotment. Made a start on a willow arch. Currently it's old/dead whips but I'm going to add some young ones too, so it becomes a living arch.

#allotment460
#wildlifegardening

So my PhD project Memoir of the Tides is progressing well. I'm not spending as much time on the seashore as I'd like but as with beachcombing, if I was there I'd be constantly going on side-quests when I spot the next shiny thing (pebble, fossil, shell).
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Planted some wild honeysuckle at the allotment today. Hoping it will grow up over the "dead hedge" which I made for frens 🦔🐸🪲🕷🐦

Bonus picture of moss seed heads waiting to spore.

#wildgardening #deadhedge

Episode 5 of Hope in the Rising Tide is now live. Many thanks to @ljbees.bsky.social for sharing their expertise on all things bugs & crawlies 🐌🐛🐝🕷🦋

E5 Turn your fear into fascination: Myth-busting our creepy-crawly friends

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Song thrush giving it large 🔊🔊🐦

Pleasant morning at the allotment/wild garden. Sunny & breezy and not too nippy. Tons to do clearing brambles, making new beds, layering cardboard to suppress weeds.

Seems appropriate both for my friend's toilet wall and folks scrolling their social media.

If in doubt, touch moss. This one little thing cheered me briefly on an otherwise sad day.