"Curry Woods Conservation Trust." A community initiative to create a new woodland ! Curry Rivel, Somerset

                        Friday June 3rd (Bank Holiday for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee)

You will be familiar with the Burton Pynsent monument, situated above the village and looking over the Somerset Levels to the west- but probably not the view from the top as the monument is only opened occasionally, under supervision, as it is potentially dangerous for people to climb it alone. Tim Schroder, of Burton House, has very kindly agreed to open it on June 3rd this year, the weekend of the Queen's Jubilee celebrations, with the request that people taking advantage of this chance of an exciting climb make a donation to the CWCT at the time. The monument will be open from 1 to 6pm on 3rd June and we hope to see you there! Peter's blog for May tells you more about the story of the monument.

Peters Blog link for more information.

Christmas books!

 I usually get one or two books as a Christmas gift and this year I want to mention a book by Simon Barnes, called" Rewild Yourself". First published in 2018  but now in paperback. Chris Packham says "Such a good idea" and it is a really clever way of writing about nature especially how he introduces every chapter! Chapter one he calls "The Magic Tree" and I am already thinking of how I can use this intriguing tile to restart this new year. Butterflies are always in our garden and every year we admire them and I try to keep a count of the different species we see and it's a surprising number. Starting with Simon's " Magic Tree" which attracts butterflies and his starter list of six common butterflies I have added others which we have seen in our garden and I can add a further dozen and I'll list them in my next post!! 

CWCT .we will be meeting by Zoom.

 CWCT.we will be meeting by Zoom this evening to talk over how to make progress despite our shut down . It might prove very difficult!