Earth Day

Earth Day was created in 1970. A day for appreciating nature, and looking at ways to save our planet. This year's theme is Plastics. I try to avoid plastic as much as possible and to recycle everything that I can. I'm sure I could do more. It's alarming how much micro plastic we are all ingesting regularly, and sending down our drains when we wash our clothes.

Earth Day also teaches us about sharing resources, like food. A friend of mine helped set up a community orchard in Hastings, near to the Church in the wood, and Trees for Cities have planted trees in Bexhill, alongside our local environmental groups, in grass verges and on open land like Bexhill Down. I'm so lucky to be able to walk in Highwoods with Charlie. The tree photos below show the back and front of a tree which has split and rotted in the middle but is somehow still standing!

The garden at Nab Cottage is a lovely, peaceful place to witness nature. Just this evening I saw 6 starlings pulling worms out of the lawn. I guess that wasn't so peaceful for the worms! There are so many bees out at the moment, mostly bumble bees. The fruit trees are in blossom. Every bit of the garden needs work and I get out there when I can. Yesterday I cut back a whole lot of brambles from behind a shed which I hadn't got to for over a year. It looks like they had started invading the apple store so I will have to check the inside of that. It is satisfying getting little bits of the garden sorted but there is never enough time for everything I want to do.