This weekend is known as the Spring Equinox, when almost everywhere round the world shares an equal length of day and night.

This weekend also marks the midpoint between deepest, darkest December and Midsummer, when, this year, we will be holding our Three Greens Festival. Hooray! We have an exciting line-up emerging for our festival this year and we will be giving some sneak previews here and on our Facebook Group as we count down to festival day on June 18^th.

A group of us spent an intriguing couple of hours yesterday with the naturalist, Ed Drewitt exploring Green Lane. Some people have called it Muddy Lane in the past and with good reason!  We were consulting Ed on how to increase biodiversity in the lane and were pleased that two Town Councillors were with us on the day, because they manage this land and can give permission for any work.  We came up with some great ideas and I will share more when we have received Ed’s report.

We also experienced a very unusual event a few weeks ago with the artist Nick Hand at Centrespace in Bristol. Nick is a specialist in Letterpress printing and has machines, whose design dates right back to the 1400s and the Gutenberg Press. We made some lovely prints, like this one, some of which will find their way into a new A-Z of the local area that Nick is putting together.

Walk around the park today and you may hear the woodpecker drumming, or see the little egret wading around in the Langley pond. You might spot the blue flash of the Kingfisher, see a bullfinch near the new wildlife garden or find tadpoles in the slack water. Herons have been spotted again at Lyde Green Lake and so many of  the plants are just coming into leaf – so breathe deep and feel the Spring.