News

Apologies to you all that our February newsletter has slipped into March.

Slipping and sliding are about right for both parks at the moment, but not on icy cold crisp winter mornings. February has lived up to its name, and I’ve never seen so much standing water and for so long in both Parks. Take a few steps away from a path’s hard surface in some areas, and you are quite likely to sink in over your ankles.

These few Summer months have been like the curate’s egg “good in parts”.

It’s the middle of August already, noticeably darker in the evenings and mornings, but our parks are looking luscious with all the rain we’ve had.

Welcome to our combined April /May newsletter. I am in the lucky position of being able to introduce our guest editor.
Paul Shelley, our accredited photographer, has been in and out of both Parks these last few weeks and has taken masses of wonderful new photos.

He also wrote about some of the things he came across and I didn’t even twist his arm behind his back. Though he’s refused my offer to him to take over, it has been really helpful as a holiday long planned and delayed. It was a good break for me and we have returned to the Parks when they look their best.

We breasted the tape of the Vernal Equinox last week, we adjusted our clocks as Spring sprung and we’ve tried to ignore the bucketing rain.

Hard frosts turned Buck Hill into a deepest country landscape, and the clear, sunny half term days which followed filled the parks with children and their families getting to know London. Days are clearly stretching out and we know we’ve turned the page on winter.

As promised, we are sending more bits of news and some colour to cheer you up.

Hard frost has returned with a vengeance, and with it some low sun. I suppose it’s too late now for me to plant those spring bulbs languishing in a paper bag?