We began the New Year with what is becoming a tradition –
Trevor’s New Year’s Day walk around the Common to see all 12 disparate sections,
and clocking up 10,000 steps in the process. A good way to kick-start that NY resolution
to get more active. The MAC and Friends committees both met (minutes are posted
on the website) and our regular events continued, including the increasingly
popular Heritage group. The month’s nature-focussed event was a talk about the
Common’s swans by long-standing local volunteer for the Swan Sanctuary – Ann Aitken
Davies – which was both informative and entertaining and gave us a better
understanding of the various hazards to our swans and wildfowl. We wish them
good luck in the breeding season! We closed the month with a thankyou party for our volunteers – swan and duck food baggers, litter pickers, community gardeners, walk and talk organisers and
people interested to find out more about volunteering. Do get in touch if you have
some time to spare and would like to get more involved.