Claire Brooks

Claire, loves nature and conservation, scuba diving and steam traction engines - all opinions shared on here are personal.

[Claire Brooks @ClaireBWild]

@HMRCcustomers I've just been cut off for the third day in a row - is it possible to request a call back? #hmrc

[Claire Brooks @ClaireBWild]

Phoned @HMRCcustomers twice yesterday to be told their system is down and to try later. I've just been hold 30+ minutes this morning and got cut off! #HMRC

[Claire Brooks @ClaireBWild]

@siobhanamcclure @HMRCcustomers Yes, and racking up some decent interest too! I was just told a day or a weeks worth of interest won't make any difference. If I am living off the food bank, a days interest is actually very important to me! @HMRCcustomers

[Claire Brooks @ClaireBWild]

Told by a @HMRCcustomers representative that a week's worth of interest on my account won't make any difference if their systems are down. If the lady who spoke to me on the phone can afford to pay my interest she is very welcome to! #hmrc @HMRCpressoffice

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Day 18: Forest Floor Forays (very, very late)

I've had trouble with my internet and Instagram recently, and have largely been caught up in other things. More posts will be coming soon.

I have a lot to say on the… https://t.co/AQAoXxPbEx

[Claire Brooks @ClaireBWild]

*Warning: Image may be distressing to some*

Day 17: Forest Floor Forays

I debated whether to post this image or not, but in the end I decided that I had set out on this journey to document the forest floor. At the… https://t.co/8QWBGBWLOw

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Day 16: Forest Floor Forays

As promised, photos of the berries from the plant with the link flowers.

We are now officially exhausted! 6 days a week with 8+ hour days of physical work has caught up with us! The… https://t.co/tfr6coJ0DJ

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Day 15: Forest Floor Forays

For someone that has a passion for plants, I've not taken many botanical themed pictures.

As we move through the forest/orchard we are constantly seeing different things that grow or… https://t.co/aponww0Ghs

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Above the forest floor there are breathtaking skies. We can see the clouds forming in the valleys and rising up into the vast skies above. It is incredible, and impossible to capture using a phone.

@k_bales1

#sky… https://t.co/oUN0gAv8Mo

[Claire Brooks @ClaireBWild]

Day 14 (Bonus material): Forest Floor Forays

I'm not alone picking these nuts, or seeing things worth photographing; this woman is working right beside me the whole time.

I can look across the tree row and see… https://t.co/2Lmyp04HZC

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Day 14: Forest Floor Forays

These little fellas keep our world ticking over in many respects. Without bees pollinating, we wouldn't be able to grow fruit, vegetables or grains so easily. Of course other insects help… https://t.co/FqVECdfcR3

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Day 13: Forest Floor Forays

Is time to shed a new skin? Perhaps you want to start exercising, start that gardening project you've been putting off, ring up an old friend for a chat? Just like this #invertebrate we… https://t.co/EucoNnmUtj

[Claire Brooks @ClaireBWild]

Day 12: Forest Floor Forays

Day 11 and Day 12 photos were taken by @k_bales1

This shows the beautiful view across the forest floor that we see everyday (apart from, everyday the view is a little different from… https://t.co/0XpyTThTqK

[Claire Brooks @ClaireBWild]

Day 11: Forest Floor Forays

I kicked this fella up as I nearly put a bucket of nuts on him (or her).

It was nestled in some greenery at the base of a Macadamia Nut Tree!

Just to think, how could a pile of leaf… https://t.co/RQMOEWjAOD

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Day 10: Forest Floor Forays

There are a lot of butterflies that appear to be just bouncing around the ground at the moment. It is coming into winter in Australia (I feel like Christmas is just around the corner!),… https://t.co/ekQ5y2rzrW

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Day 9: Forest Floor Photo Series!

It was a lovely morning, we were up early and heading for town to collect some groceries. We live in the hills, and on the drive you could see clouds forming in the valleys - it… https://t.co/5Z0gPKYCDO

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Day 8 (yesterday); there is an awful lot of cool lichen/fungi about, and no doubt I'll be posting more!

I have seen so many twigs and dead branches on the forest floor with arrays of different appendages; fungus,… https://t.co/Ef7pihFiqR

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Day 7: Yes this was photographed on the forest floor!

There are small patches of grass and vegetation between some of the trees and this was photographed at the base of a tree! It wasn't scared of me at all, and… https://t.co/wCcdAC2Ukk

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Day 6: I have no idea what this is?! It was growing directly out of the soil (I.e. the flower tube came out of the soil, with no stem)

It looks a little bit like a carnivorous plant, but I have no idea! It's the… https://t.co/ckP3wLCWPE

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Day 5 (a few days late);

I will openly admit that my mental health isn't on top form at the moment, it comes and goes in waves, and right now I am in a bit of a trough.

@k_bales1 said to me the other day "Trees… https://t.co/ogS3JvaxKC