Ye Olde Bell
April 24 2019
Sleep. Something we all need, we all want, we all enjoy, yet many of us seem incapable of getting enough of it. The average Briton misses out on well over an hour of sleep every night – racking up just six hours 19 minutes of shut eye compared to the recommended eight hours. This amounts to missing a whole night’s sleep over the course of just one week. That is...
April 03 2019
Four centuries ago, on 6th September 1620, a group of pilgrims boarded a ship bound for the New World, to build a better society. From these humble beginnings has grown the world’s greatest superpower – the USA – a society which connects hundreds of countries and cultures across the globe. Around 35 million Americans can trace their ancestry back to the Mayflower. The men, women...
February 26 2019
From outdoor activities to more obscure one-off events, take a look at what’s going on in Nottinghamshire this Spring. There’s something truly invigorating and energising about Spring. From the extended sunlit hours, to the young and blooming wildlife- Springtime is charming. Whatever you love the most about this time of year, Nottinghamshire is wonderful to visit in March and April...
Thomas Hall
January 22 2019
What does the cold mean to you? Brrrrr. Shut that door. For animals, cold is woven into their lives. It isn’t avoided, so much as struggled against. Elemental, beautiful, brutal, even fatal, but necessary. There is no light without darkness and no hot, without cold. The awesome biological diversity of our planet is a response to such environmental stressors. Millions of years of random mutations...
Thomas Hall
November 23 2018
Winter is coming. To quote the eloquent Jon Snow from Game of Thrones. We’re lucky our winter will only last three months, rather than years. We don’t have to deal with dragons either. Nevertheless, as darkness continues to pool at the end of our days, our bodies and minds slow down. We may not hibernate like bears and hedgehogs, but winter still affects us. We yawn, stretch, shiver ...