What a wet September and October with no signs of let up in the rain. Yet Autumn still comes and with it the magnificent colours in the park.

The old oak near the library continues to delight and this year it has a particularly interesting bracket fungus in its hollowed out middle. I read that such fungi do not normally damage the living wood of a tree, but feed on the dead middle known as the heartwood.

For those who could not be there, our AGM was a delightful affair with gorgeous food and great company. We even had time for some discussions about the park! Here are some minutes if you would like to check the detail. Highlight for me was the decision to set up a local naturalists group for young and old, exploring wildlife in the local area. If you would like to help organise this, or contribute to it in any way, please let us know.

They say that nature is red in tooth and claw – well here is a living example, taken from my garden. The sparrow hawk had helped himself to a pigeon and stayed on our garden table for about ten minutes making sure of the best meat.

Other things that may be of interest are that we will shortly have an information board for the orchard and several new benches are to be installed in the park.

Many thanks also to Venetia for our new logo. Here it is.  Enjoy the season.