Stories From the garden
After School Club Makes a big splash!
Water is a very attractive thing for children – ok maybe less so in the dead of winter. But the words ‘pond repair’ had been on our gardening to do list for some time and we were looking for a fun activity for the after-school club children to bond, have fun and stay relatively warm. Of course, let’s reinstate the old pond!
Trip down canal’s lane
I grew up always finding the power of the sea a mystery and enchanting. I remembered a trip to the seaside when I was nine years old, imagining myself standing on the wide shore of a beach (Southport) near Yorkshire, while feeling in awe of the vastness of the sea and the sand.
Planting a floating island
It was during a cold snap in December, when the gardening club assembled at the Floating Garden Barge to assemble and plant a floating island. Starting after lunch, we had a small window of winter light in which to do the planting.
Looking back on 2023
As I walk into the Story Garden, I notice that the garden has now truly gone to sleep. It seems to have taken longer than usual as the weather has stayed mild. Like the plants around me, I am feeling ready for a mid winter pause, to rest and replenish myself for the year ahead. And so in these last short days of the year, as darkness falls upon us during the winter solstice, I finally stop and take a moment to look back on the year.
The starfish, the river and the churchyard
As a contribution to the Somerstown Day Of the Dead Festival and as part of the Voices of the Water Project, on the 23rd October 2023, young people went to St Pancras Old Churchyard taking photos where once ran free and sacred the subterranean River Fleet.