Title: Wassail Location: The Jubilee Wood, Great Gidding Start Time: 19:30 Date: Thursday 16th February 2017 Time we had another Pagan adventure in the Jubilee wood to celebrate a Wassail. This is an old English custom of celebrating the imminent arrival of spring. As the days start
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An occasional update of events, happenings and interesting things that have been observed in the Jubilee Wood (latest news at the top of the post) January 2017 For a quiet month there has been quite a lot of activity in the Jubilee Wood mostly to do
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An excellent turnout for the annual trim and tidy of the pathways and hedges around the Jubilee Wood. Another is planned for next week, 30th January from 9.30 am.
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For three consecutive Saturday mornings in November a team of volunteers have been trimming the sides of the main path in the Jubilee Wood, primarily to cut back bramble which was encroaching on to the path way. A fourth Saturday trimming morning is scheduled for the 6th
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Jubilee Wood Winter maintenance The Jubilee Wood is in need of some ground maintenance. The area to the right of the main entrance is encroaching onto the grass ride. A five metre band from the entrance to the central grass area needs to be cleared, leaving
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Social media Pop up Picnic For 10 solid years we have held a midsummer picnic in the Jubilee Wood come rain or shine and the abiding memory is rain and not much shine. This year, 2014 rather than a fixed calendar date for the “Summer Picnic”
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Great Gidding in Camera This is a photographic challenge to record as many facets of Great Gidding village, parish life and activity starting now. We all seem to be equipped with some sort of camera whether its a smart phone or a proper camera we have the
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Ash trees are under serious threat from a fungal disease that has spread to the UK from Continental Europe. Chalara Fraxinea or Ash Die-back Disease has been noted in East Anglia and Scotland. If the disease takes hold as expert’s predict it will then it will be
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Sunday June 24th started off in much the same vein as nearly all the previous days of the month, wet. The forecast was positive so the message went out that the picnic was on. No sooner had electronic mail delivered the good news, the heavens opened and
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Celebrating the Diamond Jubilee with a special tree planting ceremony It seemed a good idea at the time, a coffee morning in the Jubilee Wood with a special tree to be planted in recognition of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebration. Oh how it rained, the ground waterlogged, the long
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