The Week So Far

Morrison's Let's Grow Vouchers

Just to let you know that I have signed the school up on the Morrisons "Let's Grow" promotion where you collect special "Let' Grow" coupons when you do your weekly shop, I gather them in and count them and then we'll be able to purchase gardening equipment for the school.  I am now waiting for the Let's Grow Kit which will arrive in September and then we start collecting like mad! Watch this space.

Holt Park Inspection Project

A lovely little project for our children was undertaken today, together with West North West Homes and the Holt Park Tenant's Association. We had been invited to tour the local estate with a small group of children, to have a look at the estate looking at the good points and at any improvements.  So Mrs W and I took 5 children to meet the team and we wandered around the streets armed with cameras and clipboards. The children live on the estate and had a keen eye.  Bad points were small areas of  rubbish, graffiti, slippery steps and unkempt gardens amongst other things.  The children were impressed with the recycling bins, the car parking areas, and the general tidiness.  They offered solutions for the odd abandoned shopping trolley they came across, the easy access of a garage roof and discussed other issues.  They really enjoyed it and using disposable cameras, took care on what they photographed and took copious notes.  When we got back, we began creating a scrapbook on the project, collecting photos, notes and maps to stick in.  A really great morning.

The Garden

We nipped up to the garden for a little while to check on things.  The knee high grass has been cut on one half of the garden and it really makes a difference!  I felt so much better. We can see the garden again and it doesn't look so bad.  We did a little bit of watering - our tomatoes are thriving and we have got a couple of tomatoes already.  We managed to pick some strawberries - think we probably ate more than we collected and did some weeding and righted a couple of our cane wigwams which were leaning at an acute angle!  We have got some back up beans and other vegetables which we'll plant out next week and cross our fingers.  The summer has been a total wash-out literally and it's very disappointing and frustrating.  We had such high hopes for a cracking growing season and was worried about keeping things watered at one point! Ha Ha! Never mind, as the saying goes "Keep Calm and Carry On!"



The Holt Park Inspection Team



Walking back to school

Cookridge and District Horticultural Society Show

Letters are out, the teachers are ready and hopefully we'll have a good selection of items to show on Saturday 8th September.  Please catch me if you want any further information about it!