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Jubilee Food For Sharing

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The Big Jubilee Picnic in Parkinson’s Park is part of the Eden Project’s Nationwide Big Jubilee Lunch to celebrate neighbourhoods as part of the official celebrations for HM The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

We’ll all be joining millions of people across the UK to share friendship, food and fun and strengthen our community links. We’d like to thank everyone who is sharing their skills and time to help with the different elements of the Big Jubilee Picnic.

As well as bringing along your own picnic, as part of the event we are setting up a sharing table near the tea and coffee refreshment tent, so that you can bring your Jubilee bakes to share with others. They don’t have to be spectacular creations, just something your family likes and wants to share as part of the celebration. Food is at the heart of giving.

Here from the Eden Project’s website are some ideas from their Jubilee Cookbook, but your own recipes are just as good, and we’d love to have them to publish as part of our Jubilee Souvenir booklet later in the year under your name. So, if you are bringing food to share, do bring the recipe as well and hand it in at the same time. Or, just email it to Parkinsonspark@gmail.com

We’ve Been Chosen for the Guiseley Co-op Community Fund for our Willow Walk Project.

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The bottom of the Park is wet with several spring emanating from the hillside. In this area is a good bank of willow trees some of the quite characterful, as well as traditional woodland edge shrubs such as rowans, blackthorns and hazel. In an amongst the trees are the foundations of the old Crompton Parkinson Tennis Pavilion, built in the 1940’s . At the north end is the bog garden, at the south end, the entrance to Edison Fields, and in the middle a wide ditch, made when earth was piled onto the old car park.

We’ve long had plans to regenerate this area of the Park by creating a Willow Adventure Walk here for children and young people, with an entertainment space for for story telling where the old pavilion was, and natural play willow and wood features along the walk.

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Hazard – fallen tree branch through wood

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Please be aware that the unseasonal and inclement weather has brought down a branch from one of the Oak trees that lines the path that run up through the wooded area. Please take great care if using that part of the Park.

The Friends of Parkinson’s Park (FOPP) have been in touch with the company who maintain the Park who will take action when they can. FOPP have been out, armed with suitable sawing implements, and removed those parts of the tree limb that had overlapped the path and caused an obstruction.

Photos of offending tree branch, and sawing process included. Please take care!

Tree branch

Clearing the path

RAUCOUS,SHAMELESS, NOISY – THE DAWN CHORUS !

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This morning, in the early hours that coincided with sunrise, a group of us ventured out onto the Park to experience one of nature’s true splendours, the famous “Springtime Dawn Chorus”.

Binoculars at the ready

Bleary eyed and fuelled with coffee we gathered together at the Nethercliffe Entrance, and soon were wide awake. It was impossible not to be when listening in to the Park’s extensive bird population all proudly advertising themselves and warning off rivals who might dare to enter their territory.

Fortunately for us, we had local bird watching expert and founder of the Wharfedale Wildlife Facebook Group (WWG), Darren Shepherd in attendance, ready and willing to offer us guidance and decipher the mass of sound that we were confronted by.

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VALENTINES WEEK IN THE PARK – 7 – 14th FEBRUARY 2021

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Two local Ladies have both come up with ideas to decorate the Park for Valentines week – we loved them both so here’s the plan.

DECORATING THE FARM GATE

We want to gladden everyone’s heart with a cascade of colourful hearts at the Farm Gate. Knitted, crochet, fabric, tie your heart on the netting during Valentines Week – we’ll put the netting up on 7th.

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Lessons in Snow

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Parkinson’s Park has always been known for its sledging facilities: 2021 is no different. The gentler slopes are excellent for the little ones, and the steeper ones for the older and more advanced. An excellent classroom for a science and sports lesson on a Friday afternoon.

And one from around the late 1950 early 1960’s – you can see the trees in the copse are quite small.

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