June 23rd- A visit to Durleighmarsh Farm

Again we were exceptionally lucky with the weather- the rain finally gave up and we had a beautiful sunny evening for our visit to Durleighmarsh.
Alison Granger was fantastic and taught us all about food miles and the benefits of buying local produce.
Armed with knowledge and an appetite, we all ventured out into the fields to pick fruit.

                                      
 
                                      

The girls were given a small punnet each to fill with allsorts- gooseberries, redcurrants, blackcurrants, raspberries, Tayberries and good old strawbs! There were some adventurous brownies in the pack who were trying some fruit for the first time, and loved it! Well done!
What a fantastic time we all had.

June 16th - Junk Picture Frames

The girls bought in bits of scrap paper and things that might have been thrown away or recycled.
They bought photo's of themselves and created some very groovy looking frames to give to their dads on fathers day this weekend.
They played a game, had a sing song and signed a 'Get well Card' for Kate Shally who is sadly in hospital and not very well. We all hope she gets better soon.

Next week we will be meeting at Durleighmarsh Farm to spend some time talking to Alison Granger about the benefits of buying local produce and food miles. We may even get to eat some raspberries!

Lets hope for sunshine and no more of this rain. Enough! (although it probably isn't....)

Litter Picking

East Hampshire district Council kindly lent us 24 litter pickers for kids with snappy jaws and faces! Bags were provided and Hi Viz jackets too. How organized!
We met Ray Swift in the car park and he chose a route through the village which he thought would provide lots of pickings.
It was great fun and we managed to fill 4 big bags. Quite a haul really.
I think the girls found it odd how people could drop so much litter with bins so close by!

We had tea and cakes back at the pavilion with Ray and it was great to get out and about again.


This week we'll be making junk picture frames!

Village Day June 4th 2011

Well weren't we lucky with the weather? Though at the time we were too hot to move! I can't believe the change in the weather....

I'm not sure what the takings were as I write this but I think we can all agree it was well worth the effort in terms of getting our faces seen.

The Petersfield Herald took photos of some of us so look out for the pics in the paper this week.

The brownies worked very hard selling books, plants and chocolate brownies which were just about surviving the heat. We had to keep moving things into the shade!

Anyway, great job Brownies, hard working as ever!