- 5th October
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Lower Failand Farm
We will be working with Catherine from the National Trust, who some of you
may remember from Leigh Woods/Cadbury Camp last year. We will be clearing
lots of encroaching Gorse bushes, and burning them with a HUGE bonfire -
yay! There will be marshmallows and potatoes provided by the lovely Gwen,
as well as the usual refreshments!
- 9th October
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Introductory Social in the Epi, 8pm
Come along to the first social of the year to catch up with everyone, and
meet some new members. Try to wear a silly hat so we stand out (not that we
don't anyway!). We will be in until closing, so just turn up when you want!
- 12th October
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Midger Woods
Come along for some scrub bashing and very likely scrub burning!
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- 18th October
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Bristol Zoo Trip
Zoo entrance is normally £9 per person, but if we can get a group of 15
who want to go then entry is only £4 per person. So... if you want to go
to the zoo with us then you need to email our social secretary Tony at
tony.horseman@bristol.ac.uk
and let him know ASAP - once we have a group of 15 who can definately go
then the trip will go ahead and more details will follow!
- 23rd October
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Charity Pub Quiz
St John's After School Club (where Ruth and Cat work) needs our help!
Come along to this pub quiz if you possibly can. It is at the Alma
Tavern (behind Sainsbury Clifton Down, see this
map) at 8pm.
Entry is £1 per person and prizes are on offer.
- 25th - 26th October
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Ravenshill Woods
Fantastic weekend away in Alfrick, staying in the Village Hall
and helping on a near-by nature reserve. Lots of nice food and
beer to be sampled too!
See last year's photos.
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- 1st November
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Halloween Party
This year's Halloween party is at Webmonkey Sam's house. The address is
Garden Flat, 29 Cliftonwood Road, BS8 4TN and the house will be recognizable
by the pumpkin carving of Molly. There will be an abundance of fudge,
crisps, cake, pie and even Smurfs!
- 8th November
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Random House Party!
Gemma says:
Come along to my house from 8pm for a bit of music, food and drink!!
Bring some of your own booze, and we'll subsidise it with our stock! My
address is: 21 Dalrymple Road, St. Pauls, Bristol, BS2 8YJ. (you can
find it on an A-Z map or
www.multimap.com).
Guaranteed to be a fun night!
- 9th November
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Browns Folly
This sunday we will be going to Browns Folly, a site managed by the
Avon Wildlife Trust, to do some habitat maintenance. We will be
clearing scrub/trees from the side of a hill, to revert it to the rare
limestone grassland, which is important for butterflies. Areas cleared
in previous years have already grown rare orchid flowers, which shows
the benefit our work! We will also be having a bonfire - yay!
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- 12th November
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Beer
Beer.
8pm.
At The Penny Farthing.
(It's on Whiteladies Road near the Clifton Down Sainsbury, and it
does lots of nice real ales).
- 16th November
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Ravensroost Woods
For our next trip of the term we will be travelling to
Ravensroost Woods in Wiltshire. This reserve has a mixture of
semi-natural ancient woodland, and wildflower hay meadows, which are of
great benefit to the large diversity of animal and plant species that
live there. Even the rare great-crested newt has made its home in some
of the ponds around the reserve. We will be doing some coppicing and
scrub clearance along the wide grassy rides, that meander through the
forest, this management increases the amount of light getting to the
forest floor, so letting smaller plants flourish!
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- 20th November
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Ice Skating
... will be at the ice rink on Frogmore Street (under Park Street at the
bottom of the hill). It's opposite the Hatchet where we'll meet to begin
with, and for those of us that can't skate/won't skate there's a bar.
Update! The ice skating was cancelled on account of the ice rink being
closed, so we went to the pub instead.
- 30th November
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West Yatton Down
This weekend we will be travelling to this wildlife reserve which is
managed by the wiltshire wildlife trust. It is an area of rare limestone
grassland, and our job will be to take out any nasty invasive plants that
are trying to over-grow the grass/wildflowers. The site is particularly
important for butterflies, moths and birds of prey!
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- 2nd December
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Christmas Dinner
Our Christmas Dinner this year will be at Pizza Provencale in Clifton
Village, Tuesday 2nd December, at 7:30pm. If you want to go you need to
email Tony! We will
be doing a "Secret Santa" thing, which means that you need to bring a
wrapped pressie worth £3-£4. All the pressies will be put in a sack and
then you will receive a random pressie from the sack. Exciting!
- 7th December
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Lower Woods
This Sunday we are going to this lovely reserve in deepest darkest
Gloucestershire, managed by the wildlife trusts. It is an area of
semi-natural woodland, which is being managed as a mosaic habitat, meaning
lots of forest glades and tracks through the woods, which is beneficial for
the maximum number of species. Our work will involve coppicing (chopping
down trees so they grow again), scrub bashing (exactly that) and probably
other stuff too, last year we built a house out of logs for insects - awwww!
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