To celebrate Children’s Book week, here I give a run down of my favourite 5 children’s books of all time, and the meaning you can find in them. The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1969) The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a 1969 children’s picture book, designed, illustrated, and...
The golden glow of carved pumpkin faces, ghoulish costumes aplenty and trick and treaters knocking at the door. Halloween is almost here again. But where did it originate? Halloween is a shortened form of All Hallows’ Eve, an occasion observed on October 31, the...
John Keats was an English Romantic poet and author of three poems considered to be among among the finest in the English language. Keats was the eldest of four children, being born on 31 October 1795 in London to parents Frances Jennings Keats and Thomas Keats. Keats...
Celebrating The UK’s Allotments With an estimated 1 in 8 of the UK population having no access to a garden, allotments provide a wonderful way to connect with nature and grow fruit, flowers and vegetables in a community space shared with others. So valued are they,...
All Parks Great And Small There are estimated to be more than 27,000 parks and green spaces across the UK. These areas of natural beauty are diverse and range from larger national parks with many facilities and amenities to smaller neighbourhood and local parks. The...
