Tomorrow I am going all the way to NORFOLK to the beautiful Pensthorpe Estate to open the 2011 Wild About Wensum event. I have been before and it was so much fun! This year it is the MOST exciting because it is all about Butterflies and I LOVE butterflies x 1 million, almost as much as i love Puffins!!

They are so pretty. Here is one I spotted in the ladies garden. It is called an Orange Tip



I had to hold my breath to get this close because I was so excited that I was breathing so quickly and I thought it might blow away.

It is really sad because we are seeing less and less of some types of butterflies in this country so we need to try and find out what we can do to make lots more butterfly come back.

The really great news is that some really RARE butterflies are doing really well and are being spotted in their thousands... like this one. He’s called a Marsh Fritillary.


SOME BUTTERFLY FACTS

Did you know.....

A butterfly can weigh the same as just two rose petals but fly thousands of miles.

They taste with their feet!

They can only see the colours red, green and yellow

Butterflies are related to crabs and lobsters! This is because they have skeletons on the outside of their bodies! WOW

Hope to see you in Norfolk where we can learn all about how to help the butterflies in the UK

It is 10 years today since i met my lady. she had short hair like a boy and didn't have a clue what to do with me. I did all the hard work. So I am saying HELLO to my lady and my Clare, Jackson and Nice Nick too and allllllllllllllll the people who worked on The Story Makers and made it the bestset library to be in EVER.

Then of course there was Green Balloon Club, such amazing adventures with lots of LOVELY people. Except once i nearly drowned, that wasn't good, at least Katamonkey helped save me. Phewwwww.

Anyway I hope I still get to go on adventures in another 10 years time. Um er yes but I don't understand how I am still 3?

You just have to wait for a little bit for it to download!

Tags: Jelly, Martin Bartin

hee hee no it is actually quite sad because Green Balloon Club is all finished now and i didn’t even realise that it was all going to be over so quickly. We all had a big holiday at Yurt Camp to do out last filming and say goodbye. Oh and I was a new me yes. Don’t ask but you might be able to tell my eyes are different.

I still look sweet though don’t I!?!

Yes it was all very sad and I even cried a bit like my lady, at least she had nice people to cuddle like Lily Rose and Nature Chris.

I was sad for a long time but then it was brilliant because even though the Lady had to leave me behind in London I still managed to get to her wedding in January when she married that man Mikey and i was BRIDESMAID!!!!!!! The Lady didn’t actually KNOW I was going to be bridesmaid but she didn’t mind because Nice Nick read a Blue Cow story at the WEDDING and then I popped out as a surprise. Auntie Clare brought me with her! THANK GOODNESS! It was so funny to see the look of BIG, BIG, BIG surprise on the Lady’s face, she was the happiest Lady ever to see me.

So now that that’s out of the way and Green Balloon Club is over, I am very busy running my blog and updating my facebook page and looking for my next nature show job! JUST WHEN WILL THAT HAPPEN PLEASE???

On Saturday I went to the Wild About Wensum event at Pensthorpe Estate... that is where they film grown up Springwatch...IT IS SO SO BEAUTIFUL there, i saw a curlew right up close and a avercet so close i could have touched it.. it was amazing..

i also met a really nice journalist called Martin Barber...

Here is me and Martin (HE IS A REAL JOURNALIST... and he was really nice and he listened to me for a very long time and was very patient because i couldn’t stop talking the whole day!)



He asked me lots of questions and you can see me answer them HERE...

Then on Sunday I went to the RSPB Big Wild Party in Birmingham and even though it was raining CATS and DOGS, lots and lots of childrens came and i made lots of new friends!! Oh it was SO FUN.

Helloooooo, excuse me.

It's been a LONG time since i have been writing because i have been busy making more and more and more nature films. We did filming water birds in X Mouth and i met some puppppppiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees and we filmed some naughty pigs. They were naughty because one of them actually ate the camera.. shhhhh don't tell the BBC. hee hee

Anyway i have some NEWS and it is even MORE fun than that because I might get to meet YOU!! Well because I am doing some festivals..... so here is where you might be able to see me and i can seeeee you if you come along...


this is me seeing a snail...

Saturday 16th May 2009 - NORFOLK
Wild About Wensum Festival
PRESS RELEASE HERE


Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd May 2009 - DEVON
Devon County Show


Sunday 7th June - BIRMINGHAM
Cannon Hill Nature Park


Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th June 2009 - BIRMINGHAM
BBC Gardeners World Live


So come and see me and say hi because then i can say hello and tell you something really important ABOUT NATURE and also some of the events are free so that's nice. free fun. yay.

i am very excited but very very nervous at the same time because on Friday I am going to BIRMINGHAM to be a presenter on Children in Need... IT IS LIVE TV i want to cry and shake and maybe not speak very much....mmmmmmmm it is live...mmmmm in a shopping centre..... on LIVE TV on the B B C 1... mmmm it is Children IN Need...

i think more people watch that than anything else i have ever seen on the TV in my whole life.... and i feel a bit sick...

but here is what i am going to be wearing.....

yes i have my very own Pudsey Bear t-shirt



ok so anyway that is nice isn't it but LOOK AT THIS........




I AM GOING TO BE THE CHRISTMAS ANGLE (or maybe i am a fairy?) in the CBEEBIES GREEN BALLOON CLUB NATIVITY PLAY

I CAN'T WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIT.

happy christmas times mmmmm

The other day we did some singing like this "lalalalalalalala lalalalalalal it's christmas and i love it lalala lalalala lalalal"

Actually those weren't the words. they were much betterer than THAT because BILL ODDIE wrote them.. YES HE DID ACTUALLY...

And we sang them in a recording studio like PROPER POP STARS and i LOVED IT

Here is me and bill ODDIE singing that Christmas Song...



well neither of us is ACTUALLY singing here... Bill is listening to clever PAUL who made up the nice music and told us how to sing and i was just waiting mmmmmm

But here is a picture of us looking like we love each other...




with Bill pretending to sing..... mmmmmm

Anyway please when the song comes out in the CHARTS can everyone in the whole wide world buy it because then it might be christmas number one and that would be SO funny and nice ....

It was Hallooweeeeeeen yesterday at Bill Oddie's house so i dressed up as a PumpKing. We planted a pumpking seed earlier this year and GUESS WHAT it did actually GROW. yes. and we had a big fat very small pumpking and we cut it into a scary face and i loved it because it worked really well. EVERYONE needs to grow pumpkings and pumpqueens for hallooweeeen and cut them so you can put a lights in them and then feel all happy and cosy.



it was a nice day filming because SIMON the SOUNDMAN was there and he DIDN'T make the lady wear a flump so she was a bit happier inside and that made me funnier.

Also it was nice because Ellie was there and she is SO NICE and i like to cuddle her.

We also had the best fun after filming because Bill Oddie has written us a Christmas NUMBER ONE SONG for him and me and all of the Green Balloon Club friends and Bill and I practiced it. And the clever man Paul who writes all the music for Green Balloon Club is going to make it so good that EVERYONE will want to buy it and ALL the world will be singing it at Christmas time. YES

The other day we went filming in a place called DORSET it was nice there. It smelled of the country and it made me feel like a proper Green Balloon Club member because I was outside having fun. We picked some apples and squeezed them till all the juice runned out and then we drank it. iT WAS THE YUMMEST APPLE JUICE I HAVE EVER TASTED IN MY WHOLE LIFE.

I didn't know that there were so so sososos many different types of apples.

Also they had a cat called Toby he liked to sit on everything that wasn't the ground. This included our bags, blankets, camera equipment, the ladies MAT and then when we were filming the SQUEEZING the apples. Toby sat on the ladies tummy but we all just carried on as normal because no one wanted to stop squeezing and the lady loved that cat maybe a bit more than me.

It was such fun because we had a nice sound man called SIMON and he came all the way to Skomer Island with us years ago and I haven't seen him since then and it was nice. He is funny but i don't lik the microphone he gives me because it is so big and fat that the lady looks like she has an extra mole the size of a Flump on her head. AND SHE CAN'T SEE but I DON'T CARE because it means Simon can HEAR ME.

But it was also a bit sad sad sad because LOVELY Anna and Becky are leaving the filming team and I love them so so so much because they help me not be frightened of anything and they help me all the time and give me my props and carry my stuff for me. I HAVE A LOT OF STUFF. And they never ever ever NEVER complain even when the sea goes on their feet or they have to carry the ladies trolley and ten other bags all at the same time.

I am going to be sad forever that they are gone.

But it isn't because they don't love me they said it is because they need to TRY OTHER THINGS and i do understand that, a little bit.

bye bye Anna and Becky i will never forget you or ever stop loving you and hope that you come back soon.

ps have you found your keys yet Becky?