by Maria Novelly | Jan 15, 2020 | Thoughts about the park
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 choirs putting on superlative...
by Maria Novelly | Jun 16, 2019 | Thoughts about the park
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 area like Heaton Moor Park can have a...
by Maria Novelly | May 30, 2019 | Thoughts about the park
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 he could run. A...
by Maria Novelly | Jan 11, 2019 | Thoughts about the park
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 up a discarded umbrella, a...
by Maria Novelly | Oct 11, 2018 | Thoughts about the park
Catherine D has been researching smart cities and muses on the possibililty of Heaton Moor Smart Park. Many of us have spent time looking quizzically at the “Smart Motorway” signs above the M60 carriageway as we sit for hours, in Biblical traffic jams. Perhaps...
by Maria Novelly | Jul 28, 2018 | Thoughts about the park
Catherine D. spills the beans but not the litter “You’re under arrest.”Two Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) judder to a halt beside me, swerving on their bicycles.“On what charge?”“Possession of a large number of cannabis packets. And whippits.”“But...
