Jenni Murphy Lidos are outdoor public bathing pools, as an alternative to chlorine-soaked pools that you usually have to pay a membership to join. A few are now derelict but many communities are doing them up, to be used by the general public once again. Lidos first became popular in the early 1800s (the first…
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the greenest choices for swimwear
Andrea Hall Swimwear by its very nature is not eco-friendly (there is one company that makes organic swimwear but at $300 a pop, most people won’t be buying it). But for most people, that’s not the answer (wearing cotton t-shirts is not recommended, as they could swell up in water and cause drowning). Conventional swimwear…
how to help endangered sea turtles
image Sea turtles are native to England, and you may even come across giant leatherback turtles. Found worldwide, they are known as the ‘ocean lawnmowers’ as they eat seagrass. Their other favourite food is jellyfish, which is why it’s important never to release balloons (as 70% of them land in the ocean and get eaten…
take time to listen to sounds of nature
Whether it’s birdsong in the garden or the distant sound of a howling wolf, many creatures make a sound. And so do pets (the purr of a cat) and nature (the trickle of a stream, the rustle of breeze in the trees). When writer George Michelsen Foy clamped his ears to his head one day, when…