Castlebridge Community Garden

The industrious and green-fingered folk behind Castlebridge Community Garden held an open day and garden party yesterday. If you have not yet seen it I strongly recommend a visit. The garden is situated in the walled garden of Nunn's house, just opposite the church.

The garden party itself was a very pleasant and sociable affair with lashings of strong hot tea, homemade buns and cakes, and heavenly singing by the Castlebridge Gospel Choir. And with the sun shining down all afternoon there was no hurry on anyone to be heading off.

Wild Meadow - no OFF button!

The Wild Meadow at the top of Redmond Park really has taken on a life of its own. As it will not be getting cut until the Autumn we decided to wade in and manually pull out as many thistles and ragwort as we could. While the former would have gone on to have lovely bee-friendly blossoms we figured that man-sized thistles was probably pushing the wild side just a little too far.