Nix in Nature

And so our journey continues.... We are giving a shot at doing our own ranger walks and hopefully eventually, cycle tours and hill walks later on.  I aim to start getting creative again and hope to start selling some things and I am also learning Reiki, so that may well take me off onto a different tangent again.  All very exciting!

Nix in Nature is the name I have decided upon after a couple of friends I met after leaving the rat race starting to call me that.  If you are interseted, look up a Nixie in Wikipeadia.  A Nix (or Nixie being the female version) in German folklore is a water sprite/mermaid that lure men to drown in the water! Mmm, maybe I was drowned as a witch in a previous lifetime and want to get my own back? In human form they can be identified by the wet hem of their clothes - which my trousers often are, but probably more due to the fact that I have short legs and my trousers are always too long for me and so I drag the hems in the wet forest puddles.  I have started to wear wellies more and if any men are kind enough to come on our walks I promise not to try and drown them!

Here is our new website, although this will be a temporary page until we have time to develop this.

Also, here is our new Nix in Nature blog specifically for the business side of things and our Facebook group which you can ask to be member of.

The Forest Log

After five years with Forest Holidays it was time to move on. It was very sad to leave behind a major step in our outdoor life journey, including of course the friends we had made there.  I will really miss our tiny friends at the bedroom window too (the fledglings, not Calum peeking in :-) Pecks and the three woodpecker fledglings, four blue tit fledglings that played on the see-saw witches broomstick and squirrely red too of course!  We hope to be back in the area soon after a break to see you all soon.

Thank you to everyone there for having faith in our enthusiasm and giving us a shot at being rangers in the first place - a hard two year learning curve what with combining the job as site assistants too, but worth it.  Thanks also for being open to ideas and giving us the opportunity to live in the forest with all that nature has to offer.

Here is a link to the Forest Holidays Ranger Activities at Strathyre.  You never know, we may be able to cover the odd ranger holiday there for old times sake.  There is a picture of me in the old rangers den and the walks seem to be similar still to the ones we set up and named :-) The Forest Holidays Rangers blog which I added a few posts to is still live, but not sure if they will continue to use it as things move on?