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it a bit better’’
She also uses her love of nature to recover from mental illness. Lucy McRobert finds out more
thought, so I started to learn more. It fly orchid, which is so tiny, you can’t down. When I sign in to my nature
wasn’t a cure, but I just felt a little bit focus on the mad stuff, because Twitter account, there’s people
better about the world. you’re having to keep looking the sharing pictures of mushrooms I’ve
whole time. never seen before. Last year, I
Then someone posted a picture of tweeted asking if anyone had any
a fly orchid and I didn’t even know How have you found the online tips for spotting wildflowers in a bit
they existed! The next day I went to nature social networks? of Sussex, and my inbox was flooded
the reserve and found it, and the The natural history network online is with messages from lovely botany
greater butterfly orchid, and so good. The amount of abuse you people who I’d never even met
twayblade, and all these beautiful before.
flowers. I was still really sick and I had get as a woman working in
lots of bad thoughts as I was walking politics is awful. I’m You started #wildflowerhour on
around, but it was much better quite a thick-skinned Twitter on Sunday nights. Why?
than spending my day lying in person, but the I noticed on Sunday evenings that
bed. It became a way of treating cumulative affect people shared photos of the
myself. If you’re trying to find a does wear you
Isabel near home
at Walney Island,
Cumbria
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