This Veggie Life

Rewilding Britain with Beavers

Recently Michael Gove attended an event in Gloucestershire to release beavers back into the wild as part of a project to rewild Britain. A male and a female Eurasian beaver, a species hunted to extin…

Bird photography: a heron in the setting sun

Acorns

First acorns of the year!

Pensthorpe – July 2018

A few photos from a recent trip to Pensthorpe in Norfolk. It was a beautiful day though windy with the storms that finally broke the heatwave. So many flowers in bloom in the Millennium Garden.

Lush shampoo bars - first impressions

Like practically everyone, I've been trying to reduce my plastic usage. Although I've always recycled since I was responsible for my own waste disposal, there's a lot of stuff I never considered, and…

Flower friday: ox eye daisies!

Have some joy this friday

Sweet peas

The bees are loving the sweet peas! 🐝 🌸

Bearded Tits

Bearded tits have always been a difficult bird for me to photograph – they’re just so quick and I rarely get to see them. There is an aviary at Pensthorpe in Norfolk that houses some bearded tits, wh…

New Plants for the Collection

So my cat sadly destroyed a little copper plant pot I had and also damaged the maidenhair fern it housed. My calathea has also been suffering - it's lost all stability, so it needs some R & R tim…

Bluebells at Blickling

Hello! I've had a few months off from Steeming due to holidays and overtime. But I'm back with a post about bluebells! --------- Every May comes the annual trip to the woods at the Blickling estate i…