{"id":95745,"date":"2020-04-24T12:58:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T11:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/?p=95745"},"modified":"2020-04-24T12:58:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T11:58:06","slug":"wildlife-books-and-running-for-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/presenters\/jackie-kabler\/wildlife-books-and-running-for-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife, books and running for heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello,<\/p>\n

How is everyone? I\u2019m writing this as the sun streams in through the window on another beautiful day… at least the weather has been behaving itself, eh? And the wildlife family in our back garden keeps on growing, which is rather wonderful. I\u2019ve mentioned the birds before – we get so many, attracted mainly by Richard Jackson\u2019s bird food<\/a> I think – and we\u2019ve now added the lovely little nesting box from Wildlife World<\/a> which I\u2019m hoping will have some inhabitants soon. We always had a blue tit family nesting in our old garden so I really want one in our new garden too!<\/p>\n

That nesting box is currently on waitlist for the pink version on the QVC website by the way; I was lucky enough to nab the grey one before it sold out. We do have some other cute nesting boxes though if you need one. Anyway, our garden wildlife family also includes two very fat wood pigeons we call Jack and Vera (I\u2019m a die-hard Corrie fan), two cheeky squirrels (yes I know they\u2019re technically vermin but they are so entertaining to watch), a fox (also cute to look at although I did find a big pile of feathers in the garden the other day which wasn\u2019t very cute at all), and now, very excitingly, a HEDGEHOG!<\/p>\n

I kept finding droppings on the lawn and wasn\u2019t sure what was leaving them so I looked it up on a \u201cwildlife poo identification\u201d website (yes, I\u2019m having wild times during lockdown!) and realised it was a hedgehog. Then my husband spotted him\/her on the patio the other night. I now might have to buy some dog food, despite not having a dog, as that\u2019s what they like to eat, don\u2019t they? I might even get a hedgehog house. There are fewer than a million hedgehogs left in the UK and their numbers have declined significantly in recent years so it\u2019s wonderful to have one living nearby.\"\"My new book The Perfect Couple came out last Friday and to my joy and astonishment went careering up the Amazon charts… as I write this it\u2019s at number 22 on the Kindle chart and number one on many of the crime charts so I\u2019m absolutely thrilled to bits! Of course I haven\u2019t been able to do any book events but technology came to the rescue again and I was able to do a Facebook live event on my publisher\u2019s page with my editor Kathryn and marketing manager Melanie, all sitting at home in different parts of the country, which was great fun!\"\"I\u2019ve still been trying to get my running in too, and am so lucky to live right on the edge of the Cotswolds which means that five minutes from my house there are empty fields, hills and woods where I can run and not bump into a single person. This is quite fortunate, as last week I was nominated not once but THREE times for the \u201cRun5Donate5Nominate5\u201d Run for Heroes challenge – that\u2019s run 5km, donate \u00a35, nominate 5 more people.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s to raise money for NHS Charities Together, which is paying for things like travel, car parking, accommodation and well-being packs for NHS staff working on the frontline. That meant I had to run 15km in total so I did just over 6km on the Friday and another 10km on the Saturday which covered it – DONE, Julia Roberts and Carly from Together fashion, who were two of the three who nominated me!<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget too that QVC is raising money for the National Emergencies Trust, with an initial donation of \u00a350,000 and then a further \u00a32 for every \u00a31 you donate – you can find more information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Until next week, lots of love,<\/p>\n

Jackie x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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