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A Day in the Country…
and a Teddy Bears’ Picnic
Today’s event is organised by the excellent Sussex Wildlife
Trust, an organisation dedicated to preserving and enhancing
the unique countryside around us. Compared to much of England,
Sussex is still very green, with forest covering 17% of our
area, providing us with a rich array of woodlands to explore.
The Trust has a bold 50-year vision, planning to recreate wildlife-rich
areas lost to intensive farming over the past century or so.
They contend that a combination of less intensive and more sympathetic
farming measures, coupled with more EU-wide farming competition
will free up the land needed to give nature a chance to fight
back.
They are hosting today’s picnic in the Seven Sisters Country
Park (SSCP), one of our existing countryside treasures. As well
as the picnic, we are told that there will also be a puppet
show starring the animals of Friston Forest. Take food, take
drink, take a blanket or two and enjoy a great morning surrounded
by the trees and the animals of the type of woodland the Trust
are so keen to protect and develop. We’re assured the
event is suitable for anyone with a teddy bear, so dig yours
out of the wardrobe and head along, armed with a honey sandwich
or two. Booking is essential. NW |
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If you go down to the woods
today: you’ll find a small proportion
of the teddies are transvestites |
