By Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. Our annual hedgelaying went well with us running out of hard hats for the first time. However, this year, we did manage to lay 38 paces of new hedgeline reaching as far as the gate onto Bradley Stoke Way. Not all of last year’s hedge is thriving, so we have
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By Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. Well that was yet another very busy year which seemed to fly by, if only our goals could have achieved the same speed! But for all its challenges, annoyances, foul weather and delays, it has, I feel, still been a satisfying year for us. Although our now swan-less lake
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An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. We’ve had a very busy last couple of months but we have at last seen our Savages Wood paths project completed. The contractors that completed the work are called Greenfields and we think it all went well, although I’m not sure their lads would all agree. It wasn’t
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An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. Pollution On Wednesday 1st May, we received the unwelcome news that we had pollution in our brooks again, and it was again coming from Stoke Brook by Sherbourne’s Brake. Reg Ward kindly doubled back to get some photographs for us, as these are required as evidence, and it
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An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. Life at the lake No one who has been down to the lake recently could have failed to see that the islands look just a little different; the main difference being that now you can actually see them! I know I’d forgotten how big they were. The project
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A chance encounter between Susan Hartry of the Stokes Art Group (SAG) and Sara Messenger of the Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group (TBNCG) last spring sparked an idea for an art project. Sara explained that just as the River Severn has Sabrina Goddess of the River, the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve has a God called Trolletheus – named
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An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. Annual New Year hedgelaying weekend We are now in our ninth year of hedgelaying along the entire length of Bradley Stoke Way and I think we’re getting the hang of it! Green Gym went in over Christmas and cleared 65 paces along the fence on the reserve side
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An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group (TBNCG). Well, that was a busy year, although I’m not sure where half of it went! And don’t even start me on the challenges that the weather sent our way. It has really been a two steps forward one step back sort of year, but maybe that is part
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An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. The weather has recently seemed determined to push our group’s rather limited resources to their limits – we’re either been rescuing creatures from dried out ponds in the heatwave, wading through deep water caused by blockages and heavy rain or dealing with fallen trees caused by high
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An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. Green Gym We’re always quite busy at this time of year, but this time I think we’ve surpassed ourselves! Our Green Gym ate a lot of cake as we’ve had several birthdays (Geoff, unlike me, doesn’t look a day older) and we had our annual garden party hosted
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