Have you ever thought how art and nature really belong together? The natural world is really the most spectacular display of art we could ever imagine and a such a stimulus to our own imagination.

Christine has been enjoying making these. Have you spotted them in the park?

The new wildlife garden has also developed its own fairy house, which feels like great fun. See if you can find it.

On the same theme, now that we can meet together again, I am delighted to announce a special winter meeting, this Wednesday Feb 2nd at 7pm in the library, where we are meeting with the artist Nick Hand who has been commissioned to do a piece of community art in his own style. Nick is an expert at Letterpress printing. Come along and help him consider what might be best for our community. Details and a poster you can share can be found here.

The week following, on Feb 9th at 7pm, (original post had 9pm in error, thanks to Jeff for pointing this out) we also invite you to join us online, when we shall be meeting with Matthew Lipton, South Glos Commons and Biodiversity Manager, on the subject of ‘Caring for Wildlife in our Local Area’. We hope that we as a community might be able to contribute to developing ‘local nature action plans’ that are currently being rolled out nationally through town and parish councils. Details and a poster to share are here. Email friendsegpark@gmail.com to get your Zoom invitation.

Finally, we are looking forward to the year ahead and planning a Three Greens Festival again this year, to be held on June 18th. We hope it will be bigger and better in all sorts of ways and will be doing some initial planning at The Langley Arms on Monday Feb 7th at 8pm. Please come and join us if you would like to help.