The gap in the Jubilee Wood hedge, a photographic record

The gap in the Jubilee Wood hedge, a photographic record

This is an interactive exercise for digital camera users, a chance to get your photograph on the village website.

 

Along the eastern boundary hedgerow of the Jubilee Wood is a large gap in the hedge deliberately maintained so as to provide a “window” for the view beyond the hedge.


Jubilee WoodHere’s the gap, all you have to do is take your digital photograph(s) standing closer to the hedge (examples below) and then send it to  the  website editor and  if suitable it will be uploaded into the gallery that accompanies this page

We are looking for changing season’s, weather, field activity, the moon, the sun rising anything you see through this gap.  Zoom, standard or wide angle lens, it doesn’t matter.

A short description would help.

Submit your picture here

 

 

 

 

 

Farming in Great Gidding 2017

Farming in Great Gidding 2017

Recent aerial photographic images of farming in Great Gidding.

The photographs were taken above the fields of Michael Trolove’s farmland around Great Gidding. All photos were taken on a DJI Phantom 3 drone.

A friendly care reminder

A friendly care reminder

Well everywhere is still very wet underfoot. If you are riding on bridle ways, please keep off the very wet ones until the ground dries out. Otherwise it creates heavy poached areas & puddles get walked around rather than through. This causes more churning as riders stray onto crops. Areas never recover & get spoiled for year round use.

Whilst out & about, I’ve been noticing more & more litter on verges, especially cans. So please if you come across any, pick it up & pop in a bin.

Be safe – be seen

Don’t forget ‘hi vis’ jackets or tabbards when it’s dull- Be Seen. Whether you’re riding, cycling or walking, have fun.

I have to say that cycling on these blustery days is great for calorie busting!

Rachel
6.2.15

Barn Owl sitting on the camera

Barn Owl sitting on the camera

2014 has seen an apparent successful breeding season for Barn Owls in the Gidding Parish. At one location I tried to film some evening activity with a new time lapse camera, really just to understand the potential of this type of camera. So it was with surprise and great delight that on reviewing the film that a Barn Owl had decided to land on the camera and use it as a perch for quite a few seconds. If you look carefully another Owl can be seen in the Ash tree. 

The camera is a Brinno TLC200. 

Video: Michael Trolove

Aerial views of Great Gidding by Derek Hyde

Aerial views of Great Gidding by Derek Hyde

These are the pictures I took in July 2011. I was a passenger in a hot air balloon which just happened to go over the area where I come from. My apologies for the quality – the weather was overcast.

I was born in Winwick and attended Great Gidding school until 1972.

Derek Hyde

Rogationtide walk and picnic, Sunday 5th May

Rogationtide walk and picnic, Sunday 5th May

Rogation Sunday is traditionally the Sunday when the rural community walk around their village to places where crops grow and animals are kept, to seek God’s blessing on their work, and especially to pray for a good harvest.

Rogation Sunday falls on 5th May this year, and we are marking  it with a Rogationtide Walk, followed by a picnic.

We meet in St Michael’s Church at 11am, and then walk around the village stopping at a number of points for readings and prayers. Please come dressed for all weathers! Some rain won’t put us off.

Afterwards, we go to Churchside House (John De Val’s home next to the church) where we will enjoy our picnic – outdoors if fine, indoors if wet!

Please come and join us and bring your own picnic – drinks (of all sorts) will be provided.