Friday, October 24, 2003
Peartree 21 is a group of local people who help maintain the Green, this mostly consists of cleaning up litter, removing scrub & the ever invasive knotweed. They do some good work and last year I spent my birthday helping to create a firebreak through gorse and bramble. If you are local then there are two workdays coming up on the 5th (1-4pm) & 8th (10am -4pm) of November, you can email me for more info.
The Group seems to have an issue with horse on the Green, at max we have had two tethered ponies grazing maybe a 20ft radius each. As far as I can see the presence of these animals adds to the environment in a number of ways and I plan to find out what the perceived problem is.
I hope to put up some more pics this weekend, I took a roll of film and should have some good autumnal shots.
It was announced this week that September was the driest month in the South of England for 130 years, this follows a dry summer and spring. We are being asked to take only showers and not use hose pipes to clean cars - reminds me of the Grand Drought of 1976 when we were asked to "save water - bathe with a friend"!
We did have one day of rain this week but since then it has got colder, there was a frost last night and the forecast is for 0 Deg C tonight.
The Group seems to have an issue with horse on the Green, at max we have had two tethered ponies grazing maybe a 20ft radius each. As far as I can see the presence of these animals adds to the environment in a number of ways and I plan to find out what the perceived problem is.
I hope to put up some more pics this weekend, I took a roll of film and should have some good autumnal shots.
It was announced this week that September was the driest month in the South of England for 130 years, this follows a dry summer and spring. We are being asked to take only showers and not use hose pipes to clean cars - reminds me of the Grand Drought of 1976 when we were asked to "save water - bathe with a friend"!
We did have one day of rain this week but since then it has got colder, there was a frost last night and the forecast is for 0 Deg C tonight.
