More Happenings on the Meadow!

In spite of, what seems to have been, constant rain over the past few weeks, we have managed to press on with a couple of significant projects on Jubilee Meadow. Taking advantage of a brief window in the weather, Tony McGinn’s team installed concrete bases and positioned three Memorial Picnic Tables. The tables are from the same supplier, Glasdon, as the Memorial Benches, and of made to the same high specification, and from recycled materials. The picnic tables are made to accommodate people with disabilities and have been strategically placed around the meadow. The tables have been generously donated by the BagLadies of Thornham, James Wherry and David Wade. We are very grateful for their support.

We have also installed, again, thanks to Tony McGinn’s team, two Information Boards at the entrance and exit to the meadow. These were made and supplied by Fitzpatrick Woolmer, who worked from photos and drawings provided by the Working Party. We think they have done a really good job of capturing what the meadow will look like, as well as providing useful information. The Information Boards have been funded by grants from FiPL (Farming in Protected Landscapes) and the Norfolk Rivers Trust (WWF & Airwick) and we are extremely grateful for their continued support of the Meadow Project.

In addition to the above, we are also grateful to the following organisations who have supported Jubilee Meadow.

Thornham Parish Council

BagLadies of Thornham

Aviva -Save our Wild Isles

Borough Council of Kings’ Lynn & West Norfolk (CIL Grant)

The first week of March will see the planting of the first batch of Memorial Trees by Janek of JD Gardening under the supervision of Jules from Barcham Trees, a major tree nursery based just outside Ely. We will also take advantage of this visit to thin out the existing copse in the South West corner of the meadow and transplant some of the trees to the North East corner of the field.

We now wait for better weather, and hope that our precious seeds have not all been washed away into the North Sea by all the rain!

Hope springs eternal!

Skylarks are singing over the meadow. Four more tit/robin nest boxes have been put in place. The winter pink-footed geese and fieldfares have gone.

We await Spring with bated breath!