The Occasional Newsletter. Spring 2025
Hello! Welcome back, it’s nice to see you again.Here’s the full Animal Allies: Occasional Dispatch newsletter. Spring 2025. I’d love to know what…
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Feature: Positive Animal Healing
Animal therapy is recognised as beneficial for people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). More recently, studies and word-of mouth reports indicate that non-riding time…
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Fiction: Canine Capers
As the old taxi sputters away, Rosie totters across the road to the wooden bench under the beech tree. She sits gingerly on…
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Feature: Vignettes on the River Thames
“Everyone has a story to tell and I’m fascinated by them all,” says Jill Mead, Thames River-based Guardian staff photographer. Most recently, that…
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Fiction: Bedtime story
I clamber down the rough rock face and stop for a minute to thrill at the cold Irish sea licking the rock edge…
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Feature: Whisky and waves: the future of Scottish isle’s power?
Communities on the Isle of Islay are moving forward with plans for tidal energy and renewable fuels while maintaining age old methods of…
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Feature: Positive learning
Investing in our children’s positive future, in a flexible, nurturing and teacher-endorsed equestrian environment The impact is fantastic! The looks of awe and…
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Fiction: Up the Canadian Creek
It was a dark and stormy night – no, really, it was. We were shivering inside a fragile, storm-tossed tent on a lonely,…
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Fiction: Discontinued Patterns
Funny how everything seems unchanged. The yellow daffodils are alive in their glass vase, sunlight reflecting through green leaves. A woman’s light perfume…
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Feature: Greening our Cities
Climate change, energy security, biodiversity losses, growing urbanisation… people are increasingly aware, especially in our densely packed island, of their own relationship with…
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