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💜🎙💜 NEWS – HOW Many Spines Do Hedgehogs Have???
I can’t believe it’s the third month already. It’s starting to feel like Spring, March 1st is always a sort of watershed for me, I feel energised and upbeat, the dark months of Winter are drawing to an end and with it a lot of our animals will be coming out of hibernation, especially bats, dormice and hedgehogs. More on hedgehogs later, but I love to try and promote how we can all recycle more and this week, we have a great video giving you ideas for 20 projects you can get your teeth into for recycling.
There’s some really great ideas in the video, I especially like some of the gift bags and clever use of newspapers and those tea light holders are something else. I bet they smell gorgeous. Have a watch and you try anything snap a picture and share it with us on our Facebook page
Now back to those hedgehogs, hopefully, if they’ve survived the Winter, they should be making an appearance around now. They are in such small numbers in this country now, we need to look after as much as we can. Here are 5 super cool facts about hedgehogs. So HOW many spines do hedgehogs have??
Of course, the humble daffodil will be starting to make its presence known in our gardens and waysides this month. They are one of my favourite flowers, I absolutely adore all Spring flowers, especially hyacinths, but daffodils never fail to cheer me up. Just a small bunch of them in the house lifts my spirits immensely.
So, on our recycling theme, our craft video this week is all about making daffodils from egg cartons. Mother’s Day Card??? Perhaps?
You can catch that video on Friday this week on the website and also on our Facebook page. We should have quite a few here at Prickly Hedge, they’ve already started to push up from the ground giving us that much-needed promise of Spring. #fridaycraftmorning
Don’t forget that on our website, you’ll also find a round up of environmental news on our How To’s page, https://www.pricklyhedge.com/right-sidebar/
I hope you have a great week and until next time, stay safe, stay well and keep recycling and helping to keep our planet healthy.
Lots of love from Yvonne, Bubble and #TEAMPricklyHedge
💜🎙💜 NEWS – BREAKING NEWS – Slugs have GREEN blood!
Hello there everyone from a sunny, but cold Prickly Hedge! Remember last week, when I said there were signs of Spring? Hmm, well I was wrong. I’ve felt like I was living in a deep freeze this week and I’ve most definitely frequented by fleecy pj’s this week. I’ve spent most of the week in my polar fleece ones. I don’t sleep in them, just wear them during the day to keep warm! So inside it’s been toasty and warm and I haven’t ventured out at all.
Nature still has a habit of making its presence known though and along with the lovely robins, we should start seeing more of the blackbirds and blue tits. The blue tits are the cutest little birds, they feed on the cotoneaster berries under our lounge window – conversely – the blackbirds gorge themselves on the berries, but they have been noticeable by their absence this year, sadly.
One for the boys now, or maybe the tomboy girls; they were something I’ve never really taken to but, hey, each to their own. Snails! The bane of gardener’s lives. Want to know more about them? Slugs and snails are from two different families, even though they belong to the same Phylum (Mollusca) and Class (Gastropoda).
“Slugs and snails are very important. They provide food for all sorts of mammals, birds, slow worms, earthworms, insects and they are part of the natural balance. Upset that balance by removing them and we can do a lot of harm. Thrushes in particular thrive on them!
Here are some of the weird and wonderful reasons we love slugs and snails.”
Check out the article here https://www.bbcwildlife.org.uk/gardeners-guide-slugs-snails – I’ll let you into a little secret – slug blood is green! It is! Wow, I didn’t know that. I think you might change your mind about slugs and snails after reading this, I know I did. We NEED slugs and snails, they provide food for our endangered hedgehogs. We start killing one thing in the chain and others suffer. Like the beautiful mistle thrushes from last week, they thrive on them too. This is why we have to be sooo careful with what we use for pest control in our gardens.
There’ll also be a video later in the week all about slugs and snails, here’s your advance link for that
And a little Snail song for a bit of light relief. Those eyes, they’re just TOOO cute!
And on Friday 19th, there’ll be a craft video on how to make your very own paper snail – all you’ll need is a piece of green paper and a piece of coloured paper, orange, blue, red, whatever colour you decide you want your snail to be. So get those ready for Friday Craft Morning along with some scissors and glue and get crafting with your little ones. You’ll need:
- 1 pc Green A4 Paper
- 1 pc Coloured A4 Paper
- Coloured pencils
- Scissors
- Glue/Pritt Stick
#fridaycraftmorning
What to look out for this week?
Keep an eye out for house sparrows – if you see them congregate, perhaps you have a bird table or you put some birdseed out for them, write down the number of sparrows you see this week. Let us know in the comments. They have been in decline in the UK recently, but we’ve seen a few more around this last year (and no, not because we’ve had more time in lockdown – lol).
Anyway, have a great week. Stay safe, stay well, stay home if you can and we’ll see you next week.