Mindfulness

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been completely fed-up with the rain recently. Two solid days of dark, wet, miserable weather! I think it was made worse by a few weeks of showers… Heavy, persistent showers… Just when you thought they’d stopped… you’d hang your washing out.. only to run back out ten minutes […]

While I practice mindfulness on a daily basis, the month of May has become synonymous with mindfulness… Mindful in May was started by Elise Bialylew, an Australian doctor trained in psychiatry… It’s now the world’s largest online mindfulness fundraising campaign. So although you can practice mindfulness anywhere, at any time, if you haven’t tried it

A couple of hours after I posted last week’s blog about forests’ symbiotic relationships… We arrived at the Truffle Discovery Centre, just north of Stanthorpe. After a fascinating talk and sublime tasting session… we were reading more information boards when I came across exactly the same concept… Truffles are the edible fruiting bodies of mycorrhiza

A friend recently shared an article about Suzanne Simard, a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. Simard, as part of her doctorate thesis, demonstrated that some trees, which often grow together in the wild, trade nutrients. Essentially her research challenged the notion that scientists have traditionally held, that forests

I love how nature can be completely bonkers! Some time ago Michael and I were out and about in the car when we saw some Sulphur-crested Cockatoos in distress. It seemed they’d got tangled up in some cables hanging over the road. They were dangling from their feet, flapping their wings furiously and making one