'Woodland Bluebells'

This is blooming marvellous ....

Do you remember the days when you used to play in a nearby wood, or scrubland, creating your own make-believe world of fairies and elves and other magical beings?

I do. More than two score years ago, with a cousin several times removed, I used to climb nearby "hills" looking in nooks and crannies for "little folk" because I truly believed in them.

Peter was my knight in shining armour, battling dragons and other monsters. Those days are long gone, and Peter and I lost touch in later years but some memories, although faded, linger.

I used to love Enid Blyton's books and many years later plunged myself into the fantasy worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien, Raymond Feist, David Eddings, Eric Lustbader et al.

Growing up in Singapore, I never had the pleasure of wading knee deep in a field of bluebells or lying on a woodland carpet to gaze through mighty oaks and elms at sunbeams or a star-strewn sky.

Those of you in cooler climes and countries like England, well, if you have never done so, you should be ashamed of yourselves, especially with the abundance of nature's gifts at springtime.

So, whatever you may have planned this spring, make a date in your nearest bluebell woodland - with your family, your children, your friends or maybe just a cousin to relive figments of your childhood imagination.

In a bluebell wood, beauty is actually knee deep ...

You can download your bluebell guide simply by clicking on the video or to find your nearest bluebell wood simply enter your postcode on the link.

Go on ... you may even find an elf or two....


** This is a sponsored post.

For a magical encounter, watch the clip and click on the link woods.org.uk