Thanks to Vinny and Anne for passing on this excellent shot of a hard-at-work Stuart.
Any guesses as to what he is about to plant?
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Our bulb planting team on Sunday last spanned at least three generations and made short work of planting 1000 daffodils and 500 crocuses.
Thanks to Helen, Heather, Ruth, Karen, Bruce, Keith, Michael and Norman for their efforts on the day. We all agreed it was great fun being outdoors on a fine winter’s day, but retreating to the bothy for fancy pieces, hot drinks and a good natter was even better.
Thanks too, to Marion, Jacqui and Helen for the fancy bakes that put Mr Kipling well into the shade.
There are still some crocus bulbs left in the bothy. Please fee free to plant them in or around your own plots.
We are pleased to welcome Graham to our growing band of volunteers on site. Graham is local to Garthdee and found us through our involvement with ACVO.
Graham is now a regular on site, having visited a couple of times most weeks for the last couple of months. He has not yet decided if he will want a plot of his own, but Graham is happy to help out with site maintenance, tidying up around the trees, moving wood chips, repairing paths and lately, raking up leaves.
If you see Graham about on site, please come over and say hello. Or, if you have a project in mind on your plot you would like him to help with, please get in touch.
I am delighted to report that following our IYN assessment last month GFAA has achieved an Outstanding level assessment. Gill and Norman attended the Keep Scotland Beautiful Awards Ceremony in October to receive our certificate.
Sincere thanks go to all plotters for keeping their own plots in excellent order this year, to the growing band of Community Sunday participants, our volunteers, collaborators and partners and to all those individuals who helped around the communal areas of the site and so contributed to this superb result.
Today’s Community Sunday was perhaps the wettest on record, but the team stuck valiantly to their tasks of raking leaves from the orchard and filling some of the new potholes before retiring to the Bothy for well deserved coffee and cake.
Thanks to Alex and Stuart for doing the honours with the photos and to Marion for sharing her excellent birthday cake!
There is no December date set, but we are expecting to take delivery of 2000 bulbs from the Council, so do watch out for an announcement about their allocation for planting.
Today’s Community Sunday top task was to move several tons of old wood chips to make room for incoming leaves from the Council. Big job, so who you gonna’ call? Well, the New Woman’s Land Army of course.
Left to right: Jen, Lyndsay, Jacqui and Gill
Now, we are not saying that a few burly blokes would not have come in handy, but as they were obviously away getting some beers in before the Scotland-Australia Match, the girls did just great.
Er, thanks go to Alison for the ‘loan’ of the barra’.
We finished just in time to head for the bothy and some excellent Kale Pesto flan, and Apple Cake (Gill and Jacqui promise the recipes soon).
Left to Right, Jacqui (cream-crackered) Heather, Gill and Marta.
Apologies to Gwen and Silvia for failing to get a photo of them, but thanks go to one and all for a truly magnificent effort.
If you missed out this time, put our next Community Sunday date in your diary now – 15 November.