Wild Roundabout

The next time you go round the roundabout at the top of the town in Newcastle, have a look at our bed of Basque wild flowers, planted last year by a group of our students, Janet McIlvenna of Down District Council and EcoSeeds of Strangford. I well remember that drizzly Saturday morning during out HallowE'en holidays. Its wonderful to see the flowers blossom through to their second year. I wonder how the twin wild flower bed in the Basque Country is doing? Best of all is that our own EcoSeed, Morgan himself, is blossoning again and looking good.

EcoSpeakers

Well done to Sophie Hennessey and Catriona Kirwan, who presented their ideas on the environment to Janet McIlvenna of Down District Council.

Litter Picking Visitors

We had some very welcome visitors today. Participants at a conference in the Slieve Donard Hotel undertook volunteering activities in the local area for one of their conference sessions. We all do our best to keep Shimna litter free, but our windy site means that inaccessible litter gets wedged in the perimeter fence and our visiting volunteers offered to hoke it out. We are very grateful for the help, to our visitors and also to Deborah McDowell who organised the event.