Pink Moon

It was a toss up between the moon, which seems to be full again (they come round so blooming quickly) or Saint George and a dragon, this week.

I stuck with our moon theme whilst we are on a bit of a roll with them.

The Pink Moon is called so, because it’s associated with the first spring blooms of April, which are generally pink.

For once it actually seems to be doing what it says on the tin.

A chap in my local pub was saying that the moon is actually more useful than the sun, since the moon gives us light at night when it’s dark. The sun only gives us light during the day, when it’s already bright.

It took me a few minutes to untangle this in my head and even longer to try to explain it back. Such is life after a few pints of beer…

We did three things this week.

We replaced the Cawston Girl Guides bench. This time it has much stronger and longer screws so should be able to withstand any squirrel attack.

I have ordered a sticker to go onto the support beam so we remember which bench it is.

I do hope that this is the correct emblem. It looks like it is.

This bench looks onto a butterfly bank that we created at the start of 2023 and we have left it to do a full year cycle (summer to summer) to see what happens.

It’s full of stinging nettles, which was a bit of a disappointment at first, but so much insect life, including four species of butterfly, rely on nettles to survive, so hopefully we will be rewarded in the summer. If not, it’s nettle soup, nettle tea, and nettle beer – you have been warned!!

We also carried on with the transition from path to short grass to longer grass to scrub.

It feels a bit brutal to be doing this but it really is just a narrow strip and in a couple of weeks it will make such a difference.

Our bench-to-bench of today on YouTube for those who enjoy seeing our progress on video.

We also litter picked from the Potford Dam end right the way to about 50 metres north of the Bear bridge and back.

Nothing much of interest except an unopened bottle of beer. And no, I wasn’t tempted to open it and have a little tasting session, not after the grubby squirrels have had their dirty little paws all over it.

Whilst I was at the Potford Dam end I ventured down to where a public right of way connects us to Dunchurch Bridleway.

Hmmm, not really what I was expecting to see. We have some exciting news regarding Dunchurch Bridleway in the next week or so, Because of this I really need the two paths connected.

I have a workday there on Friday this week (10 to 12) so will do some digging around. A question that I will ask, would you want me to add those workdays to this blog (one a month) or do a separate blog for them? Please let me know in the comments.

Lastly, we have a new country tuning into the blog. It’s been such a long time since we had a new one and I think we have now been read by people in just shy of 130 countries in the world.