In this episode…
A little bit of wintertime reflection and a chance to look ahead as January begins… bringing time, hopefully, after the festive celebrations to think about adventures, plans and dreams….
We bring you some thoughts on the year ahead and the one gone from the two Toms: Tom Cadwallender and Tom Pattinson…
Plus some top tips for the garden from Tom P…
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00:00:00: Intro and Theme tune: Princess of the Ocean by Carl Cape Band featuring Steve Deegan, Carl Cape and Jamie Robb (fiddle).
Intro: Carl: audio:
Hello and welcome to the Nature Garden Podcast, with me, Carl Stiansen, and the Weekending Show Team from Lionheart Radio.
Thanks for joining us on a canny wee wander down the garden path and country lane… with the birds and the bees, and the flowers and trees… and it’s a chance to hear some great stories from the past and present…
In this episode…
A little bit of wintertime reflection and a chance to look ahead as January begins… bringing time, hopefully, after the festive celebrations to think about adventures, plans and dreams….
We bring you some thoughts on the year ahead and the one gone from the two Toms: Tom Cadwallender and Tom Pattinson…
Plus some top tips for the garden from Tom P…
All coming up… on the Nature Garden Podcast….
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Carl Stiansen: audio: January has a lot to offer as the New year starts… it’s a time to reboot, to take stock and consider alternatives. We might want to plan new things we’d like to do or see… to grow something or go somewhere different, or just lie low, and enjoy the quiet. Here’s Tom Pattinson with some thoughts on the gardening year.
Tom Pattinson: audio
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Carl Stiansen: audio: From little acorns, mighty oak trees grow… and Tom Pattinson is adopting that bit of Geoffrey Chaucer wisdom and planning some things to begin in January and February…
Tom Pattinson: audio
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Carl Stiansen: audio: Now in the world of birds, there have been quite a few surprises this year in our gardens and fields… and along the shoreline… and here’s Tom Cadwallender, from the British Trust for Ornithology, with some highlights from the year gone and his thoughts on the seasons ahead…
Tom Cadwallender: audio
Carl Stiansen: audio: And…to the sound of wor blackbird… Here’s Tom with some things to be getting on with in the garden…
Tom Pattinson: audio:
Carl: outro: You’ve been listening to gardener, Tom Pattinson; birder, Tom Cadwallender from the British Trust for Ornithology… And a muckle big thanks to Steve Lowe from the Cresswell Pele Tower and Northumberland Rivers Trust for all his marvellous reports this year, and also to John and Dean from the Alnwick Poison Garden for their Tales from the Hovel series.
We’re taking our usual winter break for a few weeks and we’ll be back in March for more nature, gardening and heritage reports and views from Northumberland and beyond. Don’t forget, you can listen back to all of our previous programmes via the Nature Garden Podcast… that’s the Nature Garden Podcast…
I’m Carl Stiansen… thanks for listening and enjoy your gardening and time outdoors with nature, bye for now.
Outro music: Carl & the Carl Cape Band: Auld Lang Syne.