Thursday 31st October 2024 - Halloween event

Halloween 2024

This year we invited Helmingham primary school to carve some pumpkins for our trail. They had a great time last week with a whole school pumpkin carving session and tonight we benefitted from their efforts. Here they are before and after dark.

We managed a little bit of setting up in the afternoon then put the lights on once it got dark. 

 

After dark, more pumpkins arrived.

The firepit eventually got hot enough to toast the marshmallows.

Thank-you everyone who came and who helped. 

Sunday 8th September 2024 - work party

 There was a heavy shower in the early hours of the morning and we were all in wellies but generally it has been dry and the grass hasn't grown at all. I did get the mower out to cut the right hand side of the main path as the red campion has all seeded now and there are a few spring flowers in there which needs some light.

Mere de menage cooking apple. Widely grown in the 19th century especially in East Anglia.

Members of the group catching up with the latest on the sycamore sooty bark situation.

Lots of snails making use of the damper mornings to climb trees!

Millipede

The apple trees that were planted when we took on the woodland are producing more fruit now. This is a Suffolk Pink.

We completely missed picking the plums this year, they were ready in between work parties and there weren't very many anyway. The path up to the Baldwin apple tree was mown and trimmed back but it is still a bit nettly.

Aside from the regular maintenance tasks there is also the social aspect to the group and some of us stayed to have coffee and homemade muffins and a chat. Thank-you Flossie for the banana muffins!