POGLES WOOD EXPLORERS

As promised, the bird cherry is a beautiful mass of blossom and just managed to miss the late frosts. Hopefully lots of cherries for the birds in a couple of months. We have a few bluebells and cowslips and lots of cuckoo flower, so we should hear our first cuckoo any time now. The woodpecker has been drumming like crazy everyday but has stopped in the last two days. Hopefully he has found a mate and can settle down now – he must have a proper headache!

The brilliant Tuesday boys made various items to sell at the April coffee morning in Leigh church. We have made some more money to go towards a few more tools as well as our end of year outing to Brownsea Island. Thank you so much to everyone for your support and well done to the boys for pressing on with making the boxes, even when you had almost had enough of them! They looked beautiful and all sold (the boxes that is, not the boys!) Well done also to Betty from the Thursday Wild Girls for making your beautiful cards.

By the time you read this we will have finished having a brilliant time at Easter Holiday Club and will be getting ready for the Summer Holiday Club. At the moment, we are planning every Tuesday and Thursday throughout the summer holiday. We already have a few keen people who have booked so please let me know as soon as possible, even though it seems like a long way away. As there is so much going on with the royal celebrations, we have decided not to run holiday club during the May/June half term.

Muddy Monday sessions for accompanied pre-school children are in full swing, although May has a few Bank holidays so we will not meet as often as usual. Sessions start at 12noon with a bring your own picnic and finish at 3.00pm, cost £5 per child. Please try to let me know on the day if you are coming, just in case it is a day we are not meeting for some reason.

We have plenty of birthday parties in the diary so do please let me know in plenty of time if you have a special date coming up.

Philippa Toulson

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