Hobbies & Interests

LOL Sara

Apart from the energetic stuff (walking and kayaking) you are a girl after my own heart.  I have been an avid gardener for years (but then both my parents were as well).  I also try my hand at the veggies and fruit (not that any of my kids eat them but the rabbit and birds are rather fond!!).  I also like to encourage wildlife into the garden so I have bird box that has been home for the last few years to a pair of lovely little bluetits and their offspring.  Our next target is to get some hedgehogs into the garden to deal with the pesky slugs.

I have watched a programme on the hazel coppicing and a local country park occasionally has demonstrations on it during their Summer Fayre.  I have seen them make wigwams and garden tunnels from "living hazel";  it looked really great.

Josie - Community Champion

Josie,

We have the most gigantic slugs here. They ate all my butternut squash! I'm also trying to encourage some hedgehogs.

I had a grass snake in my compost bin recently (put a photo on Facebook).

Asteroids Sara - Community Champion

Hi

Have you got a verandah or a balcony, Elena?  When I lived in a flat I had a balcony and I had it filled with pots growing all kinds of things including fruit and veg!!  I also had cheese plants in the house which were taking over the place.  My mother used to say I would come home from work one day and wouldnt be able to get in the door!!

 Sara, forgot to say before, all three of my kids love kayaking.  They were taught at the Outdoor Centre where they were taken when in Primary School for a week of outdoor activity and they have loved it ever since.  We sometimes go camping and the site we go to is on the banks of the Firth of Forth and they can do kayaking there and also at Loch Lomond there is a stall set up in the Summer hiring out the kayaks and they like to go there as well.

Josie - Community Champion