by Joy Winstanley | Feb 26, 2014 | Projects |
Making Floating Islands Our cloud making Friends were preparing for the working weekend. On 15th. & 16th.February a group of Friends constructed floating islands, fish sanctuaries and small pontoons and put these on the lake. Plastic bottles were filled with...
by Joy Winstanley | Feb 24, 2014 | Activities |
Money Raised to Feed the Birds WLCT have had their funding cut and so two years ago they decided they could not afford to keep feeding the birds. The Friends thought this would be the loss of a popular attraction and so we have been raising money with which to buy the...
by Joy Winstanley | Feb 9, 2014 | blog |
Old carpet keeps in heat & damp. The Friends built a composting area at the back of the garden using recycled wood. We feel that a good composting regime will enable us to put some organic matter into the soil. Although we were pleasantly surprised by the soil we...
by Joy Winstanley | Feb 8, 2014 | blog |
That’s Dedication! A few days later, while attending St. Helen’s hospital we saw that someone had used pieces of the old hospital buildings to build an insect house and other garden features. I did not have my camera with me and my mobile phone is so old that it...
by Joy Winstanley | Feb 6, 2014 | blog |
If someone else has a good idea why not steal it? February is not a good month to be gardening but we went on the hunt for ideas of things we could put in the garden. Graham Workman suggested that we go and look what another Friends group had done at Pennington so...
