Roeburnscar Holiday Cottage

01/06/2024

…No Words…

24/05/2024

I was asked to put together an article on my work for an environmental website called www.milanogreenforum.com and I thought I would share with you here what I’d written:- My personal art practice consists of attempts to deeply connect to natural spaces in an attempt to reveal subtle nuances, cycl...

16/05/2024

Land Art by Jon Foreman, Roeburnscar
https://www.facebook.com/SculptTheWorld/posts/pfbid02oFZGxJNyew6HHJswjjwWkKqWyQzQd3sUHBeDhEsdGvTuniVZpuuukujsD63quk3xl

Ascending Spiral, 2024

At the end of February till the beginning of March we stayed in Lancashire along with a bunch more from our Land art community. This woodland is an incredible place that Shilling works in on a regular basis, so glad that we had the opportunity to go. Thanks for showing us your creative space Richard!

05/04/2024

Plantlife’s is back, blooming better than ever! Join our No Mow May movement and liberate your lawn starting on the 1 May.In this series we join Pl...

22/12/2023

‘When something is partly under your control but isn't, then you have the same sort of relationship with it as when you have someone you love — some other person. They're partly under your control because they've agreed to live with you, go along with you and so on, but also they're not! And the measure to which they're not is the measure to which they seem really alive to you.’

05/05/2023

It’s time to Liberate Your Lawn – Plantlife’s is here!

With over 20 million gardens in the UK, even the smallest grassy patches add up to a significant proportion of our land which, if managed properly, can deliver enormous gains for nature, communities and the climate 🌍

Please share your blooming greenspaces with us by tagging us and using the Plantlife hashtag!🌻 🌱 🌷

Register your lawn and join the movement here
👉 https://bit.ly/3UWii6B

Keep an eye on our social media for a whole month of Plantlife madness!👀

05/05/2023

It's time to liberate your lawn! 🐝🌱🦋

We are giving nature a helping hand by supporting Plantlife: saving wild plants's No Mow May at our four sites across Scotland. Join us in taking part in the annual campaign, leaving your lawn mower behind this month to allow your lawn to thrive.

Richard Baines, curator at Logan Botanic Garden, explains that "not cutting your grass for one month will increase the abundance and diversity of bees which we need to pollinate and produce more flowers... Bees, moths, hedgehogs and birds need long grass to thrive."

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/44lvuG3

Benmore Botanic Garden | Dawyck Botanic Garden | Logan Botanic Garden

06/04/2023

Although I have decided that this season will be my last offering group stargazing events I have decided to launch a new on-line venture - a YouTube channel where I will be sharing information about stargazing and astrophotography. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/ Althou...

09/03/2023

https://www.fauna-flora.org/news/spotlight-on-sharks-addressing-the-plight-of-an-ocean-icon/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=e-news&utm_campaign=20230309-shark&utm_content=article

Tim has worked closely with FFI since 1999. He has edited &FFI (formerly Fauna & Flora magazine) since its inception in 2001 and is the author of With Honourable Intent - A Natural History of Fauna & Flora International, published in 2017.

08/02/2023

The bulbs are starting to show and the nights are still crisp and cool - the Planets Mars, Jupiter and Venus are gracing the evening skies, there is even a comet visible in binoculars... The Forest of Bowland AONB and the Yorkshire Dales have launched their spring stargazing festivals and I am hosti...

27/01/2023

https://raptorpersecutionuk.org/2023/01/27/hen-harrier-chicks-stamped-to-death-in-nest-how-the-shooting-industry-manipulated-the-narrative/

I’ve written many times about how the shooting industry is intent on manipulating the narrative surrounding the illegal killing of birds of prey. Whether that be by publishing blatant propaga…

27/01/2023

https://www.fauna-flora.org/countries/democratic-republic-congo/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=e-appeal&utm_campaign=20230126-okapi&utm_content=article

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the most important countries in Africa for biodiversity conservation. It has the highest number of species for almost all groups of organisms with the exception of plants, in which it is second only to South Africa.

05/06/2022

Ecosia is the search engine that plants trees: https://ecosia.co/infoWatch as tree planters from Ecosia's project in Senegal react to your video messages.By ...

22/04/2022

Plantlife’s campaign doesn’t ask you to do much. In fact, it asks you to not do anything at all… Just lock up your lawnmower on May 1st and let the wild flowers in your lawn bloom until the end of the month, providing a feast of nectar for our hungry pollinators.

18/11/2021

Not many people could claim that they have single-handedly enabled a species to survive. In the Eastern Caribbean country of Anguilla, however, one man has dedicated over 20 years to ensuring the continued existence of a critically endangered lizard.

14/09/2021

Stargazing Vouchers and Events I am delighted to announce the immediate availability of my new website where you can explore and book my stargazing and astrophotography events and claim your experience voucher if you have one. Please visit the site to find out all about the amazing opportunities sta...

13/09/2021

SHOCKING: Watch betray his own speech on climate and nature, Sir David Attenborough and us all, by approving HS2. TAKE ACTION NOW at https://St...

20/08/2021

A cornucopia of colour is a sight to bee-hold on busy roadside verges in Yorkshire, creating the perfect habitat for bees and other pollinators.

16/07/2021

In 60 action-packed minutes, this world-first live documentary will set out to discover who is polluting Britain's rivers and why nobody is stopping them. Pr...

18/05/2021

John Atkinson Grimshaw Victorian Painter
https://twitter.com/artistgrimshaw/status/1394648349773635588

“Blea tarn at first light, Langdale pikes in the distance, 1865 ”

29/03/2021

It's time to dream of your next family holiday destination, and Lancashire is the perfect place.

28/03/2021

28/03/2021

Episode 5. Bill Potter

Tom talks with Bill Potter who breeds the Greenholme ponies on Birkbeck Common.

Having been bred and reared in the harsh conditions of Shap, they are tremendously hardy and will do well in any situation. Some of the mares have never been handled and live in feral conditions, trusting to their instincts in hard weather; In a recent wildness survey, the Greenholme ponies came in the top 5% of wild equines in Europe.
https://fellpony.co.uk/podcast/2021/3/27/episode-5-bill-potter

Thanks to Bill Lloyd for technical support with this episode
Photo: Milton Howarth