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  • Home
  • About
    • About Views From an Urban Lake
    • Introducing The Patch
    • Map of the Patch
    • Contact Views From an Urban Lake
    • Privacy Policy
    • Cookie Policy
  • Photography Projects
    • Butterflies of Milton Keynes
    • Dragonflies of Milton Keynes
    • How to Photograph Dragonflies
    • How to Photograph Moths
  • Hiking/Walking
    • Milton Keynes Walks
    • Walking Routes
    • Hiking Posts
  • Nature Posts
  • Camping Posts
  • Geocaching
    • What is Geocaching – A guide to your new Hobby
    • Types of Geocache – A guide to the differences
    • 100 Plus Geocaching Terms you may not know
    • 10 things you need to take when geocaching
    • Geocaching Posts
  • Gear Reviews
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    • Urban Lake Photography
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  • Early Autumn in quiet contemplation - a ruddy darter dragonfly
    Mental Health,  Nature

    Early Autumn in quiet contemplation

    Ashley Beolens / 16 September, 2020

    There is little better than being sat in a hide, in quiet contemplation of life, in early autumn. The, still warm, rays from the sun, casting golden hue across the lightly rippling water;…

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  • Mental Health

    Hiatus

    Ashley Beolens / 18 June, 2018

    Regular readers may have noticed a lack of posts of late, especially ones about walking or wildlife trips out. Unfortunately I am suffering a little with ill health of late, and it is…

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  • Featured,  Mental Health,  Outdoors Wellness

    Outdoors Wellness With Bo Beolens

    Ashley Beolens / 5 June, 2018

    So far as I know I don’t suffer from mental illness, but that is not to say my mental health is always good. Moreover, there are times when life throws things at you…

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  • Outdoors Wellness With Libby James
    Featured,  Mental Health,  Outdoors Wellness

    Outdoors Wellness With Libby James

    Ashley Beolens / 4 May, 2018

    Mental illness is defined as “any of various disorders in which a person’s thoughts, emotions, or behaviour are so abnormal as to cause suffering to themselves, or other people.” Outdoors Wellness With Libby…

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  • Featured,  Mental Health,  Outdoors Wellness

    Outdoors Wellness With Katy Moyes

    Ashley Beolens / 5 April, 2018

    I got diagnosed with OCD, paranoia, and anxiety when I was very young. I did certain routines and thought things that weren’t normal for a young child. So when I come to think…

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