A fine winter’s morning in the park. The sun even shone and there are lots of flowers out, including primulas, a clematis and Puschkinia Russian Snowdrops! We did yet more tidying, organising the compost and started on bird box assembly, all supervised by very bossy robin.
It was a cold, windy but fair morning, so pretty good by the standards of 2016. We’d a good turn out of volunteers, all weeding, tidying and pruning.
And special thanks to Sinclair Campbell for cutting the wood for the bird boxes, which will be assembled in the next few weeks.
The grass and paths are now almost clear of leaves as we managed to squeeze in a bit of gardening before coffee. It was sunny and easily warm enough for coffees in the Park. 19 volunteers followed up with Christmas Lunch at the Old Chain Pier. Lunch was excellent: good food, excellent service, fine views and mercifully few photos.
TCV’s team came at short notice today and did a huge amount of work. They are a great team and good to be with. They cleared tons of leaves from the bottom half of the park and the grass will be able to breathe again!
The end of a hard day. The team collected at least 20 tonne bags of leaves
Hardly a leaf in sight!
Spotted in the fernery!
It was a fine morning, but the first real frost of the winter in Trinity.
We’d a great turn out for a winter’s day. We’ve now cleared almost all the leaves from the grass, the Christmas tree was looking good (before the gale!) and there is still a remarkable amount of colour, including fuchsias and a very confused lupin. Bad news was that squirrels have been gorging themselves on tulip bulbs planted in pots. We should have known! We’ve rescued quite a lot and we hope the gluttonous squirrels don’t learn to open the cold frame!
Despite the awful weather, there was one successful event at the park on Saturday. The turn out was good and the wreaths were excellent. We even managed to brighten up the bothy (though the hole in the ceiling was beyond disguise). Thanks to Janet for organising and Fi Duncan for leading the course.
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It was so good that even Santa and assorted hangers on even came along!”
A fairly miserable morning but we had a good turn out. There’s a wreath-making class in the bothy on Saturday so it was all hands to the deck to clear everything out. We were surprised at just how much stuff we have. We also managed some bulb planting and leaf-raking, before the rain came back on.
Empty and cleaning up
Some of what came out!
