For lovers of the natural world, gift experience company Into the Blue now have a BBC Earth Experience available in London.

It gives you entrance to the BBC Earth Experience for two people, with a self-guided tour on a journey through the  natural world, with iconic landscapes to explore and animals from around the world to connect with. 

Emotive music and the tones of Sir David Attenborough’s narration will give you the chance to connect with the natural world – the images are filmed by the BBC Natural History Museum.

There are multiple screens at different angles with images of animals, plants and landscapes – it’s a bit like an XL-sized nature documentary.  You can sit on a bean bag to take it all in, but most people stand and move around.

The BBC Earth Experience Tickets & Lunch for Two is available from £99.00

Then you can tuck into a two or three course pub meal at the Rylston – if you want the ribs, you pay a supplement – and a glass of wine or beer is included. The pub is 10 minutes away.

You need to book 14 days in advance – but this could be a great way to do something different in London!

Find out more here from Into the Blue gift experience company.

Just want tickets?

Now, if you just want tickets, you could get up to 35% off tickets at Picniq.co.uk  until 31 October 2023.  They have lots of discounted deals at venues around the country, including BBC Earth.  Find more from Picniq! 

How about a 2024 Calendar for them, to see them through a wild 2024?!

Take a look at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Calendar for 2024
available from the Natural History Museum's online shop.

The photography is just breathtaking!

Here's a great gift for anyone who loves bears!  Give them the chance to enjoy beautiful pictures of rescued bears during 2024 with a Free the Bears calendar!

Find out more about the Free the Bears 2024 calendar

Free the Bears is a charity in Australia and they have done an amazing job over the years rescuing over 1,000 bears from captive situations and looked after them in their sanctuaries in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

The bears are often in terrible conditions when they are rescued, and many have lived their  lives in tiny cages with little or no food or water.  They were founded by an incredible lady, Dr Mary Hutton, who has just announced her retirement from the charity. 

The 2024 Calendar features 12 of the bears at Free the Bears sanctuaries,
all cared for by Free the Bears

The Free the Bears calendar for 2024 has some amazing photos of the bears that have been rescued - so why not help them out and give one of these calendars as a gift to a bear lover? The wall calendar features 12 bears, all enjoying a safe, healthy, happy life.  They rely on humans, as they've never learnt survival skills and some have disabilities so they will need care all their lives.  

Buy your Free the Bears Calendar here for £11.00 (other currencies are available too!

Images on this post copyright Free the Bears

Don’t miss: Hamza – Strictly Birds of Prey.

Hamza Yassin travels around Britain, taking footage of birds of prey – such as marsh harriers, white-tailed eagles, peregrine falcons

The programme is on BBC1 on Sunday, 24 September at 7pm – nearly a year after Hamza Yassin won Strictly Come Dancing.

Now, he’s back in the natural world, meeting old friends, dedicated conservationists and film-makers, beginning on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula in West Scotland.  Here he films many different birds of prey and eagles, his first love!

And he’s in Ealing to track down the peregrine falcon, the fastest animal on the planet.  These falcons are defending their nest and chasing predators off. 

There are hen harriers in the Caingorms National Park, known for their sky dancing courtship display.  Some landowners in the park are restoring the natural environment to help wildlife.

There are buzzards, too, in the woodland behind Hamza’s house, and then it’s off to the shores of Loch Garten situated in the Scottish Highlands.  Hamza finds out what it takes to bring a species back from extinction on an RSPB reserve. 

We see the marsh harrier in Somerset and why the landscape in the Somerset Levels are a beacon for conservationists.  In Sussex, you can be inspired by naturalists and wildlife photographer David Plummer who has transformed his garden into a wildlife haven.

Finally, it’s back to the Cairngorms to see some golden eagle chicks, and the programme ends at Hamza’s very first bird hide which he build in Ardnamurchan.  Here, Hamza reflects on what he has seen and what people are doing to help and protect birds of prey

Fly off to the BBC's website to find out more about the programme here. 

By the way, if you know of someone who would love a birds of prey experience, gift experience company BuyaGift has 36 Birds of Prey experience days. 

As a visitor from this website,  you can enjoy 15% off until 31 December 2023 with our exclusive code AHW2023.   It’s valid site wide, although some products are excluded from this offer.  Fly off to see the birds of prey experiences available with BuyaGift here.

Wow!  Emma Bridgewater's Christmas range is beginning to appear on her website - so we thought we'd give you a quick idea of what some of the range includes!

There's a Christmas Toast and Marmelade range, which includes a 40cm Enamel Roasting Dish With Handles, a large jug (just the thing for gravy) and an enamel cooking pot.  

Take a look at the Christmas Toast and Marmalade range

And there are cushions, tin trays, mugs, cushions, napkins, table runners and table cloths - just the thing to decorate your Christmas table! 

This is the Four Calling Birds Round Tin Tray for £12.00

Just the thing for belinis and smoked salmon or toast and salmon!
This is the Gold Toast Smoked Salmon 8 1/2 Inch Plate
for £28.00


This is the very pretty Two Turtle Doves Tin Tea Caddy
for £10.00

This is the London at Christmas Tea Towel 
for £15.00.
 

Visit Emma Bridgewater here