We’ve just spotted in the Essington Fruit Farm Newsletter:
At last the pick-your-own season has started!
We have lots of lovely strawberries, the recent rains have swollen them nicely and plenty are now ripening up. Other fruit crops will soon follow: gooseberries may be picked now but will benefit from a week or two to grow some [...]
Older tenants of Wolverhampton Homes are being urged to take advantage of a new gardening service, called the Tidy Garden Scheme, launched this week.
The new gardening service is launched in partnership with grounds maintenance supplier Continental Landscapes and will cost £7 a week.
In the spring and summer, the service will include fortnightly lawn mowing [...]
Blogger ‘Captain Ahab’ has written an in depth post about Bentley Canal which passes through Wednesfield.
The blog post not only contains a detailed history of the Canal and it’s origins, but also includes ‘then and now’ photos of the Canal from 1992 before much of the re-development work in the area began.
One such photo shows [...]
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There’s been lots of Wv11 news in the last week or so – here’s a round up…
Comic Relief fraudster spared jail
Express & Star – 13th November 2009
Cat’s teeth shattered by gun thugs
Express & Star – 13th November 2009
Lifeguard cleared over swimming pool drowning of Walsall father
This Is Walsall Online – 16th November 2009
Priory Group [...]
“Sparrow” by Kvjrkrao.
We were recently sent a Tweet on Twitter (or perhaps it was a Chirp!?) by the West Midlands Bird Club asking us if any of our readers had spotted any interesting birds.
The club, who’s Twitter profile says they have been “Serving birdwatchers & ornithologists in the four English counties of Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire [...]
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