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All Around The Pub
Fallen Willow All Around The Pub Ace reporter Bluebottle gives a fly-on-the-wall account of last weekend’s catastrophe: “The regulars at...

Friends of Coy Pond
Sep 16, 20251 min read


Crocodiles...Again!
Never mind The little boy who cries “Wolf!”: what about the old blogger who shouts “Crocodile!” twice? In the last blog (May 20 th ), the...

Friends of Coy Pond
Aug 1, 20251 min read
Meditations on ‘Stairway to Heaven’
Most people find Coy Pond and its surroundings both peaceful and tranquil. For the gardening volunteers, one of the ‘perks of the job’ is...

Friends of Coy Pond
Jul 22, 20252 min read


Magnolia Memory
A generous donation of a young magnolia tree has been given by Hayley, to beautify the shrubbery around Coy Pond itself. The magnolia is...

Friends of Coy Pond
Jul 15, 20251 min read


Tree of Heaven
This is the story of a small ornamental tree, the Americans call ‘Stag’s head sumac’, Latin name ' rhus typhina ', and of the memories...

Friends of Coy Pond
Jun 14, 20253 min read
Crocodile...of Schoolchildren
Did you really think that Coy Pond had an exotic creature, lurking in its depths? By prior arrangement with Bishop St Aldhelm’s School, a...

Friends of Coy Pond
May 20, 20252 min read


A Given Agave...Again
We always welcome gifts of plants wanting a good home. When the ‘Tropical Garden’ was first landscaped, we were given a variegated agave....

Friends of Coy Pond
May 7, 20251 min read


Giving to the Community
Most of the flowering plants in the Coy Pond area have been given by the current crop of volunteer gardeners, Friends of Coy Pond. Some...

Friends of Coy Pond
Mar 28, 20252 min read
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