An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. The Common (East) – We are parents! We were delighted to receive a message that we had ducklings on The Common (East) pond! We had, for a while, seen Millicent on the pond, but Maurice was nowhere to be seen. Then, to our relief, he finally appeared, oblivious to all
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. Big Spring Clean I had put in a request for good weather, but I think the email got lost as we took part in the annual Big Spring Clean on what must have been one of the coldest days of the year! Although we only went from the Brook Way
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. For the last couple of months, we’ve felt like our daffodil bulbs – cold, wet and biding our time for warmer weather! Usually there is not much we can do in the winter months but plan for the spring. However, this year, this proved a bit harder to do as
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. November workday at The Common East Although the pond on The Common East has been looking very tired of late, newts were found during a licensed survey so we have had to resist going in to give it a tidy up until the beginning of the ‘closed season’, which is
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. We were again bowled over by the exceptionally high standard of the 14 gardens that entered our annual Best Front Garden (BFG) competition; I, personally, was as green as their immaculate lawns! Some were new and some were old favourites, some were large and some were small, but they were
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. Like many of you, we were rather fed up of staring at grubby traffic cones forlornly guarding muddy piles at the Aztec West roadworks, so we’ve started a new project which we call the ‘Aztec Triangle.’ We know it’s more of a trapezoid or an irregular quadrilateral than a triangle,
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. Sadly, some of our work has been the target of vandalism in recent weeks, both at the Twinned Roundabout (bottom of Brook Way) and The Common East. Twinned Roundabout We, and many of the town’s residents, were hugely disappointed to see that our beehive was again targeted by vandals and
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. Twinned roundabout Winter may have been a quiet time for our ‘in bloom’ group, but it seems that spring is not! Spurred on by the Twinning Association visit by a party from Champs-sur-Marne, we bought forward our April workday so that we could include the group in our
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. Winter is a quiet time for an In Bloom group. Apart from tidy ups, planning and eating biscuits, there seems little for us to do. We have been keeping busy though, and have been planting bulbs around the town which are already beginning to show. Although not strictly
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An update from Sara Messenger of the Bradley Stoke in Bloom group. By the time our October workday arrived, I think we were on ‘Plan D’ or maybe even ‘E’, but a plan is still a plan! We returned to the rose garden on Brook Way (just north of the doctors’ surgery) and seven of us, including newbie Emma, spent
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