Habi-Sabi

22/04/2026

This post from is chiming with us today - follow us for more on how to make safe gateways 🦔🦔🦔

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Hello, I’m a hedgehog, and if you keep shutting me out of your garden, I’m going to go extinct. I’m already on the IUCN Red List (GB) as vulnerable. It might sound dramatic, but for those of us navigating the modern world, the fences you build are walls we simply cannot climb. We aren’t looking to take over; we’re just small travellers on a nightly quest for food and a safe place to rest our weary heads. When every garden is sealed shut, our world shrinks, our food disappears, and our families are torn apart by barriers we don’t understand.

​I promise I’m a neighbour worth having. I’ll spend my nights quietly patrolling your flowerbeds, acting as your natural pest control. I don’t ask for much—just a tiny gap at the bottom of a fence, a “hedgehog highway,” so I can pass through safely without having to risk the dangerous, busy roads that claim so many of my friends.

​Please, take a moment to look at your garden through my eyes. A little corner of wildflowers, a shallow dish of water, or even just a small hole in the fence can be the difference between a future for my kind and a world where we only exist in picture books. I want to keep snuffling through the leaves and waking up to the smell of your garden, but I can’t do it alone. I need you to let me in.

03/02/2026

Here’s what -sabi submitted 👇 . It’s quietly satisfying that a tiny urban garden fronting onto a busy B road can still offer support to a wide range of birds.

If ’s app is correct, the greenhouse garden’s Holly tree provides an attractive source of winter food to a group of local thrushes. We’ve never seen them in the garden before and they are rather magnificent … We recorded over two sittings.

Saturday, mid morning: 2 Great T**s flitting between Ivy, Winterberry and birdbath; 5 Wood Pigeons eating Holly berries; 2 Magpies joyfully chattering; 1 Pied Wagtail darting into, and quickly out of, the Holly; 1 Robin picking through the leaf litter for Worms or Beetles and Starlings warbling in the distance.

Then briefly around 4.30, as the afternoon slipped into evening: 8 Crows flying north

Sunday morning, early, with a mug of tea: 2 Redwings, according to Merlin, eating Holly berries; 5 Fieldfares also eating berries; 3 Seagulls flying south, high overhead; 1 Magpie chatting in a neighbour’s garden; 2 Crows, one flying south and one north; 4 Great T**s flitting south and 18 Starlings following, flying very fast.

Redwings and Fieldfare sang all morning in the Holly as they pick through the branches for berries. They are very, very shy, mostly thrushy shadows but one bold speckled breast briefly emerges in the sunshine

Then later, as the light is fading, the Wren appears, owning it all with his with jaunty swagger …

23/01/2026

Remembering the Big Garden Bird Watch that we mapped of with

Today thegreenhouse garden has snowdrops, irises, hellebore, dog tooth violets, calendula and viburnum, powerfully sweet, in bloom.

Holly, ivy, roses and Japanese sacred bamboo hips and berries are plump and vividly red.

We’re recording bird sitings this weekend for the as we did in 2013 when was invited by as part of ’s ‘Inside Out’ exhibition.

It was an honour. A challenge. & fun!

Using data from societies, trusts, government websites and other organisations, Peter Thomas, Neil Cummings, Tom Smethurst, Ben White and Catherine du Toit geolocated sightings across the Thames Estuary.

Are you taking part in the RSPB’s Birdwatch this weekend? Here we do because we’ve noticed a lot of change in the numbers and types of birds over the years, even in the narrow urban garden facing into a busy B road we tend, and we want to support the RSPB in monitoring those changes.

We’ve not seen the goldfinches for a few seasons but there was a pair of tawny owls calling close by at dawn yesterday. At the end of the street a single magnificent plane tree shelters chattering starlings, wood pigeons, great t**s, magpies, crows, and recently, in the gap left by the goldfinches, parakeets …

We will post our sightings - and looking forward to seeing yours!

21/01/2026

Bravo for articulating this so well 👇

Pollinators, especially bees, are responsible for a massive portion of the food we eat. Fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, coffee, chocolate.. all tied back to their unpaid labor. Remove them, and entire food systems start wobbling.

Organizations all over the world have been sounding this alarm for years, but it doesn’t trend as well as tech launches or billionaire weddings, so here we are.

Yes, while we argue online, chase convenience, and act like we’re the main characters… a fuzzy little insect is quietly holding civilization together by a thread.

The solution isn’t flashy. It’s not another product. It’s not “saving the bees” with a logo slapped on it.

It’s not spraying your yard.
It’s letting clover exist.

It’s leaving stems standing, letting leaves rot where they fall, planting native flowers, and accepting that a living landscape is a little messy.

Regeneration isn’t loud. It doesn’t look perfect.
But it works.

Turns out the future of food doesn’t depend on domination or control, it depends on whether we can step aside long enough to let habitat come back.

Humbling.
Uncomfortable.
And wildly necessary. 🐝

19/09/2025

Encouraged the ivy to grow out and flower again this year

24/07/2025

20/03/2025

Happy Spring Equinox and World Rewilding Day!

To celebrate we woke at sunrise to see the the first rays of the new day, and checked there was enough water for the frogs and bees and marsh marigolds in our tiny pond.

We really notice the huge difference having water in our small rewilded city garden makes for birds and other creatures - on warm days there are often many different species, including snails, slugs, butterflies, dragonflies, bees and even foxes.

26/09/2024

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Illustration by Sajan Rai

19/09/2024

Fox
Ian Hamilton Finlay

Published in Glasgow Beasts, an a Burd, with papercuts by John Picking and Pete McGinn (The Wild Flounder Press, 1961)

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27/07/2024

Breakfast with - thinking about solar farms …