Wookey Hole Village

About Invasive Weeds

Unfortunately there is currently a lot of Himalayan Balsam and Japanese Knotweed growing in and around Wookey Hole.
 
The following information has been provided by Natural England

“It is important that you can identify both these plants so you can control them in the most appropriate way if they grow on your property.
 
You are required to prevent plants on your property from spreading into the wild.
 
You are required to prevent plants on your land from spreading on to a neighbour’s property.

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Silent Meditations in the Church

The church is open daily for all to use for quiet and private contemplation.

Now, on Mondays 10.00am to 10.30  there will be Silent Meditation for people of all faiths or none.

Do come and benefit from the quiet, sacred space of our lovely village church and share silent companionship there.

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Window Cleaner?

Hi,

Does anybody in the village have a recommendation for a good, reliable windowcleaner in or around the village?

If so, please can you send details here: Contact Website Team

Thanks very much...

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Wookey Hole Wildlife Blog - September 2016

Wookey Hole Wildlife Blog for September. Les Cloutman

Hope you all enjoyed the summer break.

Global warming? Possibly but we seem to be getting more of the Hawk Moth family each year. Did you know we have elephants in our village – well OK the Elephant Hawk Moths, and their caterpillars.

The caterpillars feed on willow herb so are quite likely to turn up in your garden (the above were in my garden this year).

When fully grown the caterpillar will crawl about looking for loose soil to burrow into to change into a chrysalis and wait for the next spring.

If feels threatened it will rear up and pretend to be a snake. Hopefully fooling the bird or other predator into  leaving it  alone.

Although this summer  presented us with a mixed bag of weather, August was good enough for our local farmers to bring in good harvest.  Unfortunately one creature you won’t in the harvest fields is the Harvest Mouse. Modern harvest methods and machines eliminated them from the fields long ago – we do still have harvest mice locally, although they are now confined to areas of long grass and reed beds.  They are the smallest of our mice and acrobatically climb and nest among the reeds and grasses on the Priddy Mineries reserve.  If you are lucky you will find their perfectly woven cricket ball sized nests. Large fires started by careless people using those horrible ‘instant BBQs’ devastated the Mineries last the spring  and many harvest mice and other creatures  must have died, but the site is large enough, hopefully,  for mice to repopulate the regrown  areas next year.

Les C     This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

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