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    Sep 22, 2020 3 minutes

    CONNECTING WITH NATURE

    At the start of lockdown back in March, when normal life suddenly vanished and time seemed to stop, we finally got around to doing something that we had always wanted to do: My son, Oscar, planted his own vegetable garden.

    He helped me dig over his patch and then he carefully marked it out with some purple string (his favourite colour) and some sticks. He planted seeds and helped with the weeding and watering (his favourite thing) and we’ve left all the harvesting to him (his

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