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Winter is coming. The park has been shrouded in mist for a few mornings recently, and the squirrels and jays are hoarding food for the hard times ahead. So industrious are they, that one wonders if they know it will ...
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“Glory be to God for dappled things -For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;Landscape plotted and pieced -fold, fallow, and plough;And all trades, their gear and tackle and ...
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Are there pips in the park...in the dark? As you may already know, pip is short for Pipstrelle, the most common kind of bat species in the UK, whose names range from Alcathoe to Whiskered. (1) Catherine describes how pips ...
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Even with the threat of coronavirus, we can still enjoy strolls (carefully distanced) in the park to admire the spring finery. Forsythia along Elms Road and Magnolia near Buckingham Road Primroses along the Peel Moat Road path Pink Camellia along ...
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You may wonder what the Friends get up to, besides organising and running popular annual events: Carols in the Park, the Easter Egg Hunt, Teddy Bear’s Picnic as well as and holding a monthly Garden in the Park Day. What ...
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Authors: Krysia and Catherine Well... It gave us the woodpecker… Many residents of the Heatons use the park every day – to walk their dogs, to play bowls, to listen to and observe the birds, to let their children play, ...
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Australia would envy the rainfall in the park this winter, but some great days during this winter season include - Carols in the Park was big success on 21 December 2019, with Besses o' th' Band and Do Your Thing ...
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This article from the i newspaper concerns a a study carried out by the University of Exeter and covering over 20,000 people from all walks of life. The results demonstrate that just two hours a week in an urban green ...
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With all the recent rain, it’s nice to look back at some of the lovely spring finery the park has shown off the last couple of months. As yo may know, the bedding plants and many other flowering plants are ...
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Something startled him. He darted like an arrow, russet-brown, still slightly fluffy, out of the wildflower corner and up to the tennis courts, where he wheeled around. He was fully alive, wide-eyed at his surroundings, astonished at finding out that ...
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Catherine D muses about whippits (the items, not the canines) Unsightly litter in the park often meets the eye. Such rubbish has to be picked up, shoved wearily into ghoulish black bags and disposed of. Invariably, one asks oneself, holding ...
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Vote now to help the Friends to improve the park! The Friends of Heaton Moor Park are applying for a grant from the Aviva Community Fund to improve the playing field. The park infrastructure is over 120 years old, and ...
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