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I was sent this like to the Isle of May National Nature Reserve blog this week where one of their ecent volunteers is talking about her experience. I will put a permenent link to the blog (there are some good posts there) but in the mean time have a read and let me know if any of you are inspired to give it a go.

http://isleofmaynnr.blogspot.com

Oh and you don'y have to go that far (although it is very nice)  there are NNRs right…

A few weeks back my husband was chatting to a guy who said they picked apples in an old orchard near my office. Ian asked me about this and I had to admit I had no idea. So we decided to investigate with the help of a bit of aerial photography (thank you Google), found a couple of points we thought it could be and yesterday lunchtime a friend and I went to investigate.

It turns out the orchard belonged to an disused asylum (which I did know was there!) along with wilded vegetable and…

This weekend I went biking around Culbin Forest, in between Nairn and Forres. I had a great time as did my dog Dave.

We biked for almost 3 hours and he ran the whoe thing with us, only knocking Fi off her bike once.

The weather was mixed which was why we choose Culbin above walking on the West Coast, but in the trees it was great. The colours of the mosses and lichens was amazing, the dunes and salt…

Last weekend I finally got my new allotment.

Inverness had a definate lack of plots (pretty much none) so a group of interested individuals got together and put alot of work in to secure a site, get funding and set up fencing etc and this weeked it all came together and we now have an allotment site.

After years of only dipping my feet in growing a few veggies in pots my 15 by 10 m plot looks a little intimidating but there is already a community growing up around it. Sheds are…

As those of you who occasionally read my messages will know, I love the Spring and this year I am particularly excited, could be the early winter or fact that February promised us Spring was on the way.

Well I am undefeated by the weathers determination to spoil my excitement!! What

I may have stayed in all weekend (except for some fairly unenethusiastic dog walking - Sorry Dave) but I have been inspired by spring, not cleaning (Ian knows better than to expect that!), but the…