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The first drystone walling course at Swarthmoor Hall. Re-building a new piece of garden wall, using old stone left from the Hall renovations and new build in 2000. 

 

Sir John Barrow school have been with two classes "looking at Quakers" and Quakerism.

Meeting for worship 12.30pm on Thursday 13.07.06, bring your own lunch for afterwards, hot drinks supplied.

Interfaith Meditation group are here on Saturday 15 July, see events for details.

FOSH members Jean and Des Gamlen have donated a fine circular picnic bench to the Hall and it is to be sited in the top end of the meadow near the campfire site.

Paul and Stephen the New Deal Gardeners have been working very hard in the gardens and grounds over the past 3 months and made a huge difference. The lawns do look like lawns now instead of grass patches! That's except for the mole hills! The moles who up to now have lived in the meadow have found their way into the gardens and are causing havoc in some of the beds.

Bill's onion patch got riddled with tunnels and he lost a few plants as they got washed down into them when he watered the beds in the dry spell.

They must be finding our tended and mulched borders and Bill's vegetable beds better for worms than the meadow.

There is a fine colony of peacock butterfly caterpillars on the nettle bed in the meadow. We have cut part of the bed where there are no caterpillars to encourage new fresh nettle growth for the next generation.

Tamsin Douglas has completed the three surveys of the meadow, (last September this April and June) and we look forward to seeing how diverse the plant species list is when we get her report.

Water butts are filling up again after being emptied during the dry warm weather. The patio pots are all looking very colourful now, and the sweet peas are flowering. (We had begum to wonder if they ever would!)