January 2019

We welcome two new charities to this year’s Bluebell Walk

 

Delighted that the Children with Cancer Fund based at Polegate and the Salvation Army from Eastbourne will both run a day each, Thursday 18 April and Wednesday 8 May respectively, making a total of 23 charities involved in running the walk and providing food for our visitors.

 

 

Henry the Bodger hangs up his tools

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Publicity Leaflet 2019

 

 

Update of website

 

Tim Church, who I have relied on for many years to give advice on our on-line presence and the content of www.bluebellwalk.co.uk  to ensure that it merits a top space on the Search Engines, is currently working in conjunction with Worldwide Webdesign Ltd based in Eastbourne to add a form to the website, so that entries for our Photographic Competition can be submitted on-line.  This is quite a significant step forward as, since we started the Competition in 2010, we have only allowed entries to be sent as prints. Now, following the BBC Countryfile’s example, we will now accept entries in both formats, but I don’t expect to reach Countryfile’s entry numbers of 30,000!

 

 

Millennium Avenue

 

Tree surgeons have reduced the shade on our avenue of young oaks from the overhanging branches of the adjacent mature trees (see photo).  The avenue is growing so well, that our Arborist Consultant recommended that we start to remove some of the weaker ones, thus allowing the strong ones to develop to their full potential.  This process will continue for the next few years, as initially they were planted quite close to each other, so that alternative ones were removed, as their crowns started to encroach with each other.

I compared photos in the blog written at the end of January 2018, in which they showed many of the daffodils in bloom and bluebell leaves emerging quickly; this year there are very few daffodil blooms and barely a trace of bluebell leaves in Beatons Wood.  When we set the dates we will be open we have no idea whether Spring will be early or late, so with the current cold weather and state of growth of the bluebells, I trust that by opening on Thursday 11^th April we will be seeing those vistas of white wood anemones with the odd bluebell, then the bluebells developing to their full potential until Sunday 19^thMay.  The weather will decide whether this all works out!

 

My aim is to try and have the next blog posted at the end of February 

John McCutchan

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This message was added on Friday 1st February 2019