Reviving a bumblebee

Lockdown Diary for Tuesday 16th June 2020

Here's a quickie of a blog post...

Today we've helped our local tourist office by planting plants in the gardens outside the office, which is to open in mid July for two days which is a good start.  At least something is open, yet still people are wary of how things will be done when picking up leaflets and what not when you go inside.  Unfortunately, I won't be doing any shifts and with the charity shop not opening to volunteers yet I am sort of wanting to do things haha! ... We've been pleased with ourselves today, we seemed to have revived a bumblebee, after it seemed distressed. 



Until the next post... <3 Stay safe and well.

Bruce the Hedgie

George and Bruce 

The names of two of the hedgehogs that visit the Harp's and Willis' households where we live on our street.  Bruce is the largest of the two hedgehogs that our neighbour Mrs Willis weighed...  he weighs a staggering 1113 grams in weight! We both raise money and also take any injured, poorly or hedgehogs that are out in the day... to The Little Silver Hedgehog.  Emma @ https://littlesilverhedgehog.com/ rescues and nurses injured ones back to health as well as Mrs Willis being one of the foster mums being there for the hedgies getting better. Emma's facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/littlesilverhedgehog/
(Bruce in the garden)

George is a smaller hedgehog that we have found to be one of the 'lower rank' when it comes to him meeting Bruce...I've never thought hedgehogs could fight like that or be like that.  But they're interesting creatures and when they're not together interesting eaters and roamers!

Until the next post, stay safe and well during these strange times.

A late reply of an apology and also hedgehog diaries...

A busy lockdown random diary entry...

Well, ok, so I know this isn't a good enough excuse for being busy doing geocaching, walking and gardening for not doing my blog... so my apologies for that.

We've recently been looking after, or rather putting food out for the resident hedgehogs in our garden.  Along with the bee and insect hotel and reviving a bumble bee earlier today.  That and other random things... These are the geocaches (Want to know about geocaching click here!) we did nearby the nearby Terrington area geocaches and found a few but not that many which is sad... have any of you done them and can maybe help?

 (the geocaches mapped out screen shot from my mobile phone) 

Photo of woods near Stittenham, north yorkshire, very boggy wood! ... Views and all photos on this blog/vlog Copyright @ Rae Rowan Photography 

next post is the hedgehog diaries!. ...

Moorlands wildlife Reserve & Brown’s Garden Centre.

Well, lockdown has got us all stuck inside. So we decided to go and try Browns garden centre to get some bird feed, flowers and also compost. Not to mention feeding pots for the resident hedgehog 🦔 which comes every night here. Lovely place and friendly staff all doing there best and most customers keeping to the social distancing rules that were mapped out for us. 

Then we went to the Moorlands Wildlife Reserve down the road. Another beautiful spot that we haven’t been to. Didn’t realise how big it was!! Photos to follow. ☺️ Stay Safe and well. 

Mindy's Karuna Doves

Karuna Doves 🕊

My dear Kindspring.org friend after taking to social media more these days and also tech things, has been making doves, the oragami kind, which she has done for years and some time now.  She recently posted on www.kindspring.org about what Karuna means and the doves along with a poem.  Beautiful! <3 Feel free to join us all, I have just got my kindspring smile cards today that people get to leave in places (although, would people still leave paper during these strange times, on street corners and lampposts?) .  Here's the photo of the cards and little things I was sent. :)

and now this is what Mindy hereself said on the post:

Karuna is the Sanskrit word for compassion.
As the need arises, I am encouraged to fold origami doves. I have made and shared over 40,000 origami Peace Doves, with special flocks for loss, breast cancer, LGBT, etc…so, now I am making Karuna Doves.
These doves are made of bright solid colors and folded with compassionate intention.
A simple 5 petal lotus is drawn on the breast of each dove — signifying peace, love, hope, faith and healing. The message below is tucked into a wing of each dove.
If you’d like a small blessing of Karuna Doves to share, please let me know via private message. As my gift to you, there is never a charge for the doves, or for the postage.
Thank you for being the positive change we are seeing in the world, my kind friends.

We are all in this together.
It’s apparent,now more than ever,how what we door don’t doaffect each other.
Be thoughtful.Be kind.Share what you can.Encourage and support.
Keep making a positive difference.
These are the timeswe were made for.
mj
May this dove always lead you in thedirection of Peace, my friend.

Visit KindSpring.org for more inspiration.

Haverwitz walk, Earth Day and Blackbirds...

Another Day in Lockdown, in the North of England...

Well, we've been gardening, attempting to get a Tesco supermarket food delivery selection of slots and feeding the resident blackbird.  All that amongst walking, bike riding and at my 'desk' or rather my mums dining room table.  Waiting now for a slimming world dinner and veg.  Hoping that one day there will be a takeaway Chicken Korma with rice, naan bread and bombay aloo! Here's hoping that they'll let me and them have it one evening! 

These are the photos of our latest walk around our town through Haverwitz Farm, viewing the village of Crayke from the top then following Haverwitz beck to the alotments and walk 1 of the local tourist office walk leaflets.

The current excitement consists of a Argos shop, Tescos grocery shopping, (excited as we get one coming tomorrow!) picking up the mail and waiting for the milk man to arrive before wiping everything with antibacterial wipes or cleaning stuff that we can find.  We've painted the summer house (me being at my mums that is), gardened, chopped the silver birch down (which I definately protested at poor thing!).  As well as odd meetings with friends, family etc on Zoom, facebook and sometimes jitzi. 

Lets hope they find a vaccine soon and this whole pandemic ends, also hoping that the death toll for the Coronavirus (hating that more word/name more and more now as the year goes on).  Far too many people died.

Until next time, 

Blessings and stay safe and well, From Rae. x

Old Telephone kindness hits Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

With all that is happening in the world right now and with others struggling out there in a place called Muthill near Crieff in Perthshire has a old red phone box that has been turned into a "village larder" to help out anyone who might need it or who is struggling  People donate what they can then. Then people hopefully will take what they’re really running out of. Let’s hope it’s not too Much. Way to go Scotland. 👏🏻 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

📸 photo by John Fitzgerald O'Donnell on Facebook post that was shared to me by a Facebook friend.