Category Archives: Nature & Wildlife

Overweight Ducks and The Beautiful Norfolk Broads

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

It’s a funny old world that we live in. Bombarded as we are about the merits of eating healthily and maintaining a healthy weight, yada yada yada, I could not believe my eyes when I read an article recently in … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood Memories, Family Life, Nature & Wildlife, Norfolk Broads | Tagged Childhood memories, Ducks, Family Life, Holidays, Lily Pads, Nature Conservation, Norfolk Broads, Otters, Sailing, The Norfolk Broads Wildlife Trust, Vacations | 16 Comments

Happiness is A Full Water-Butt and A Garden Full of Butterflies and Bees!

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

Today, I have been getting on really well with all my various writing projects faffing and not getting much of anything done, although I did go into town today and, after living here for 5 years, I have, at long … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood Memories, Current Affairs, Garden Snippets, Musings, Nature & Wildlife, Photos | Tagged Bees, Books, Buddleia, Butterflies, Butterfly Bush, Children, garden, Library, Photos of Butterflies, Rainwater, Reading, Summer, Water Butt, wildlife | 14 Comments

Ladybird, Ladybird, Fly Away Home…

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

Well, it had to come to an end sometime. After more than two weeks of uninterrupted sunshine and soaring temperatures here in the UK, with yesterday being the hottest, and stickiest day yet, the heat wave has broken. We are … Continue reading →

Posted in Childhood Memories, Current Affairs, Family Life, Garden Snippets, My California, Nature & Wildlife | Tagged British Summer, California, England, Garden Centres, Gardening, Gardens, Greenfly, Heatwave, Ladybird, Ladybug, Met Office, nature, Roses, Thunderstorms, West Country | 11 Comments

Summer, Spamgate & What Not To Do For A Tick Bite

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

What on earth does summer, ‘Spamgate’ and a very nasty tick bite have to do with each other? It’s just the way my mind works, either that or the sun is getting to me, but with all this talk about … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Current Affairs, Family Life, Musings, Nature & Wildlife | Tagged Akismet, Blogging, Boats, Comment Spam, Fellow Bloggers, garden, Humour, Lyme disease, Nature Reserves, Summer, thank you, The Norfolk Broads, Tick Bite | 13 Comments

The Nerve-Wracking Risk of Sharing Our Writing

Posted on July 6, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

I am way out of my comfort zone. Until I started this blog I had never shared any of my writing publicly, in any shape or form. In reading other blogs I know that I am not the only one … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Family Life, Grief, Musings, Nature & Wildlife, Photos, Poems, Writing | Tagged Blogging, Family Life, Friendship, hope, Jesus, pain, Photos of Wildlife & Nature, Poetry, Rainbow, risk, sorrow, Sunset, The Norfolk Broads, writing | 8 Comments

Time for the Rose

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

The Met Office has recently announced that here in the UK we have just had the coldest spring in 50 years. Well, I don’t think it took a formal announcement to make that clear and we will certainly all be … Continue reading →

Posted in Family Life, Garden Snippets, Musings, Nature & Wildlife | Tagged British Weather, English Gardens, Gardening, hope, joy, Musings, New Life, Patience, Photos of Roses, Rambling Rose, Rewards, Spring, Sunshine, Time | 15 Comments

Birds of a Feather & All That

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

As much as I love birds, particularly my Sweet Robin (yes, I am still completely obsessed with him), I prefer them as wildlife, outside, not inside as pets. This is primarily because I have a real phobia of anything that … Continue reading →

Posted in Birds of a Feather, Family Life, Nature & Wildlife, Sweet Robin | Tagged Alfred Hitchock, bird food, birds, cats, Family Life, Humour, Pets, Phobias, robins, starlings, story telling, The Birds, White Cockatiels, zebra finches | 8 Comments

This Green & Pleasant Land

Posted on May 31, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

So then, a reprieve. A walk in this beautiful country of mine, this land of soft, spring rain and green, patchwork fields. I take a deep breath and I walk on… And did those feet in ancient time. Walk upon … Continue reading →

Posted in Musings, Nature & Wildlife, Photos | Tagged Beauty, English Countryside, Green Pastures, Musings, nature, Photos of English Countryside, Poem, Psalms, rain, Walking | 10 Comments

My Alcoholic Dad Gave Me Something

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

As a young girl I loved going for walks in the woods with my dad and my younger brother. It was ritual which started like this: On Saturday mornings, my dad would make a ‘fry up’ which consisted of everything … Continue reading →

Posted in Alcoholism, Childhood Memories, Family Life, My Dad's Alcoholic Prison, Nature & Wildlife, Writing | Tagged Alcoholism, Childhood memories, Children, fathers, Mystery, nature, Red Fox, story telling, Walking in the woods, Writing Competition | 11 Comments

What Has Your Blog Done For You?

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Sherri Matthews

Four months have gone by since I started this blog and after some (healthy, I hope!) introspection, I find that I am asking myself one question: “Why did I start this blog in the first place?”. Why indeed? Back in … Continue reading →