tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8150854159364820604.post9133772561479113730..comments2023-05-10T16:38:37.925+01:00Comments on Stockwood Pete: GUEST POST - A chance to improve the environment in StockwoodPete Goodwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07115478143080295370noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8150854159364820604.post-37649641322045435552010-10-29T12:04:55.456+01:002010-10-29T12:04:55.456+01:00Thanks, Toni
Agreed, it was really encouraging to...Thanks, Toni<br /><br />Agreed, it was really encouraging to see a lot of enthusiasm and constructive planning there. Much of it, I have to say, directly due to you and your neighbours!<br /><br />See you Monday at the orchard. Not Tuesday, though; the bank's not coming after all.Stockwood Petehttp://stockwoodpete.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8150854159364820604.post-17896433123921649382010-10-28T20:01:55.598+01:002010-10-28T20:01:55.598+01:00Ahem... I am sorry to be the only one posting here...Ahem... I am sorry to be the only one posting here.<br /><br />I just wanted to thank Pete Godwin, Gemma Dando, Ariaf Hussain and all the others in the [relatively] long list of those who attended the first meeting of the <b>Stockwood Environment Group (SEG)</b>.<br /><br />This first, very positive experience of the new group gave me new hope for our neighbourhood, blessed with an enviable wealth of "green capital" but also cursed with a small number of extremely destructive <a title="person with an antisocial personality disorder" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociopath" rel="nofollow"><i>sociopaths</i></a> intent on degrading anything beautiful and alive. <br /><br />As a former Inner City resident, in London as well as Bristol, I feel very fortunate to have on my doorstep beautiful walks, woodland and other green spaces alive with foxes, badgers, squirrel, birds and frogs.<br /><br />I welcome the opportunity the group offers to get involved in the effort to restore these commons to their former, pristine state, for us and our descendants.<br /><br />Future meetings will set the agenda for the coming months and, by January 2011, we will hopefully begin to organise some task days we can <i>all</i> get involved in. As Ariaf helpfully pointed out, these should be fun and appeal to people of all ages, abilities, cultures and walks of life.<br /><br />Several of us also joined <a href="http://www.flowershill.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/fososintro.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Friends Of Stockwood Open Spaces (FOSOS)</b></a> and, through that group, will hopefully become more involved with <i>greening</i> Stockwood.<br /><br />Best of the Best Pete and All.<br /><br />Thanks!<br /><br />ToniGeaVoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11351451604077189066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8150854159364820604.post-24439234403209942602010-10-28T13:18:34.345+01:002010-10-28T13:18:34.345+01:00By way of a follow-up, my partner and I will be at...By way of a follow-up, my partner and I will be attending this meeting and may have persuaded a couple of neighbours to come along.<br /><br />I believe they too would be interested in joining a hands-on initiative to clean-up litter in our local woodland and green spaces.<br /><br />Might it be worth involving the Avon Wildlife Trust or BTCV to supply the volunteer support (tea things, Protective Equipment like gloves and maybe tools to cut back bramble and other overgrowth), as well as and asking the Council's Parks Department to let us have some sturdy rubble bags and arrange collection of litter and larger items removed?<br /><br />Hope to see lots of local people there and look forward to getting to know them.<br /><br />Best of the best!<br /><br />GeaGeaVoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11351451604077189066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8150854159364820604.post-75825415968500887982010-10-10T09:41:06.807+01:002010-10-10T09:41:06.807+01:00I hope either my partner or I will be able to come...I hope either my partner or I will be able to come on the 28th, work permitting.<br /><br />I am particularly interested in joining or helping to organise a local litter picking group to clear the local woodland, around Sturminster Close, the LNR and surrounding area.GeaVoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11351451604077189066noreply@blogger.com