This idea has been forming in my head in the past week or so, and indeed on my long walk yesterday, I began taking photographs to be incorporated in my new blog - Meadowsweet's Nature Notes After yesterday's post, and when I couldn't sleep in the night (yet again), I mulled over how there is a gap in education which used to be called 'Nature Study' when I was a child. How we had a 'Nature Table' in the corner, to which we would regularly bring things of interest - a bird's eggshell discarded from a nest; a Jay's feather; a jamjar of frogspawn; the pupae of a caterpillar or moth; a branch of sticky Horse Chestnut buds left to open in the warm; fungi in the autumn; bunches of wild flowers to identify.
Below: Jay
All this has gone; ignorance is bliss, but it comes to a pretty pass when the lecturer on a field trip at University, specifically to identify hedgerow trees and thus patterns of habitation in the past, actually had to rely on my eldest daughter to help him out as even HE couldn't identify some they were looking at.
So, BB (my pseudonym on several sites is Bovey Belle) has decided to fill the gap. Hah - if anyone ever finds their way to my new blog that is! Please come and visit, tell your friends, and their children, and get them to tell their friends.
