Gan canny

Tom Pattinson… is up and at ‘em in the garden and taking care as he brings us a very important ‘gan canny’ message.

 There’s great excitement on the Aln estuary and coast where Tom Cadwallender is watching the spring gatherings of birds… 

 And we’ll be hearing from Butterfly Conservation and their findings on how well or not so well different types of butterflies are doing across the UK… and they’ve got some great advice on how to help butterflies. 

 Plus some top tips for the garden from Tom P… 

All coming up… on the Nature Garden Podcast….

Chapters

• 0:00 Intro and theme tune: Princess of the Ocean feat. Steve Deegan, Carl Cape and Jamie Robb
• 3:15 Gan canny: safe gardening #1
• 9:18 Spring birding with Tom C
• 21:23 Gan canny: safe gardening #2
• 27:15 Butterfly conservation: Richard Fox
• 31:51 Jobs for the week with Tom P
• 37:21 Outro

Transcript

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…  

Tom Pattinson…is up and at ‘em in the garden and taking care as he brings us a very important ‘gan canny’ message.

There’s great excitement on the Aln estuary and coast where Tom Cadwallender is watching the spring gatherings of birds… 

And we’ll be hearing from Butterfly Conservation and their findings on how well or not so well different types of butterflies are doing across the UK… and they’ve got some great advice on how to help butterflies.  

Plus some top tips for the garden from Tom P…

All coming up… on the Nature Garden Podcast….

00:00:00: Intro and Theme tune: Princess of the Ocean by Carl Cape Band featuring Steve Deegan, Carl Cape and Jamie Robb (fiddle).

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Carl Stiansen: We have a saying here in the north of England: ‘gan canny’ which means a variety of things: goodbye and be well, take it easy, take care… depends on the context and tone. Well, here’s Tom Pattinson with some excellent ‘gan canny and take it steady’ advice on gardening and why it’s really important to keep safety to the fore… 

Tom Pattinson: audio

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Carl Stiansen:  Spring is such an exciting time in nature and birder, Tom Cadwallender, from the British Trust for Ornithology has been down on the shoreline observing the springtime comings and goings…

Tom Cadwallender: audio

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Carl Stiansen: Tom Pattinson is getting busy in the garden this week in-between the showers and putting his best foot forward in appropriate attire… and this vital advice can prevent accidents at home in the garden or in the allotment…  

Tom Pattinson: audio

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The charity, Butterfly Conservation, protectors and advocates for all things butterfly and moth-related, have just announced the results of a very important survey of butterflies. Here to tell us more is the head of science at Butterfly Conservation, Richard Fox… so… ‘hello’ Richard and a very warm welcome to the show…  

Richard Fox, Butterfly Conservation: audio 

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Carl Stiansen:  To the lovely singing of wor blackbird… here’s Tom with some things to be getting on with in the garden…

Tom Pattinson: audio: 

Carl Stiansen:  Outro:  You’ve been listening to gardener, Tom Pattinson; birder, Tom Cadwallender from the British Trust for Ornithology… 

And a big thank you to Richard Fox from Butterfly Conservation and you find out more about how to help butterflies at their website: wild-spaces.co.uk, that’s wild ‘hyphen’ spaces.co.uk

We’ll be back with more nature, gardening and heritage reports and views from Northumberland and beyond in a couple of weeks. And, don’t forget, you can listen back to all of our previous programmes via@ the Nature Garden Podcast…

I’m Carl Stiansen… thanks for listening and enjoy your gardening and time outdoors with nature, bye for now…. And, oh yes, gan canny marras!