My favourite wildlife haven is Britannia Conservation Area here in Ottawa Ontario Canada. I do most of my hiking and photography at this area and it has been the inspiration for much of my writing.
Thanks for the prompt. I’d not heard of that initiative. I’ve written on the Valentine’s theme this week, but about sustainability and the eye watering sums spent on this one day. Not very planet friendly!
Any reason you’ve seriously held back to your blog rather than here? I always enjoy your writing, Juliet.
I back on to Coul links here and we’re waiting for the Government verdict about whether the the and golf course goes ahead. Not sure now what more we can do. Much of the village supports the development as they think it will bring jobs, but it’s low paid seasonal work and will do nothing to keep young people in the area as they can’t afford housing. Nature always gets pitted against development. We need much better holistic policies.
Thanks for your comment! I'm holding on to my original blog partly because it's older and more established and I have readers there who wouldn't follow me here, but also because that has always been a place for short blog posts and reviews and on Substack I've been aiming for longer pieces of writing, which wouldn't feel at home on my original blog. I think more than anything I've realised that I don't have enough ideas for the kinds of things that I want to write here, to commit to my original idea of a weekly post. But I'm not giving up and sometimes it might be weekly...
I agree with you about Coul Links, that's been such a long running campaign hasn't it? We definitely need better holistic policies and developers need to be more honest about the extent of the benefits of a proposed development and definitely nature needs to be valued more.
My favourite wildlife haven is Britannia Conservation Area here in Ottawa Ontario Canada. I do most of my hiking and photography at this area and it has been the inspiration for much of my writing.
Your photos of that area always look beautiful, it does seem to be a wonderful place for wildlife
Thanks for the prompt. I’d not heard of that initiative. I’ve written on the Valentine’s theme this week, but about sustainability and the eye watering sums spent on this one day. Not very planet friendly!
Any reason you’ve seriously held back to your blog rather than here? I always enjoy your writing, Juliet.
I back on to Coul links here and we’re waiting for the Government verdict about whether the the and golf course goes ahead. Not sure now what more we can do. Much of the village supports the development as they think it will bring jobs, but it’s low paid seasonal work and will do nothing to keep young people in the area as they can’t afford housing. Nature always gets pitted against development. We need much better holistic policies.
Thanks for your comment! I'm holding on to my original blog partly because it's older and more established and I have readers there who wouldn't follow me here, but also because that has always been a place for short blog posts and reviews and on Substack I've been aiming for longer pieces of writing, which wouldn't feel at home on my original blog. I think more than anything I've realised that I don't have enough ideas for the kinds of things that I want to write here, to commit to my original idea of a weekly post. But I'm not giving up and sometimes it might be weekly...
I agree with you about Coul Links, that's been such a long running campaign hasn't it? We definitely need better holistic policies and developers need to be more honest about the extent of the benefits of a proposed development and definitely nature needs to be valued more.