WASSAIL 2015

2015 Big Bird Watch

At note for your diary..Big Birdwatch event on Sunday 25 January from 10.30-12.30.   This is the weekend of the RSPB’s nationwide Big Garden Birdwatch and we treat Hilly Fields as our Big Garden. Our stall will be outside the Cafe as usual and we will offer activities for children as well as a guided ...

Embaubled

Fintan spotted this tree in Hilly Fields

Friends’ Meeting: 9th December, 2014 at 7.30 in the cafe.

Our friends’ meeting will be this Tuesday from 7.30 in the cafe, festive refreshments are planned. All our welcome to join us, or you can email any suggestions to hillyfields4@googlemail.com Our first event of the new year will be the Big Bird Watch, details to follow.

Lewisham Boundary Marker by Hilly Fields

Spotted this last weekend in Tressilian Road by the junction with Montague Avenue opposite north west corner of Hilly Fields. I must have walked or run past this hundreds of times, don't know how I never noticed it before. I assume it marks the boundary between the Metropolitan Boroughs of Lewisham and Deptford, before they ...

BAT WALK

Following on from the interest in The Bats at Hilly Fields Fayre, here is a chance to see our very own (we hope). Thursday 18th Sept from 6.45 to 8.00pm, meeting at the Cafe, WEATHER PERMITTING. Nick Pond, ecologist will be offering his expertise on bat behaviour and ecology and we’ll have bat detectors to hand.

All these diggers and all these holes in here, somebody’s got no truck!

BCer Jim is angry. He writes*:If you have been around Hilly Fields lately, if not you better watch it. There are about 100 ankle deep holes by some 18yo metal-detecting person. I fell in two thinking they were dogs digging to China.Someone ran into the kid and asked him what he was doing digging up ...

Questions and Answers

Every year for the BrocSoc Midsummer Fayre, we produce a Hilly Fields quiz. It’s a good old-fashioned paper and pen quiz which is completed at the Friends stall and tests your knowledge of our beautiful park.  This year, nearly fifty brave people had a go and although some of the questions were challenging, most of you did well. Four people got all ten questions right and ...

Next Friends’ meeting

I’ve had a few queries about our next Friends’ Meeting. It will be 9th September, 2014. We start at 7.30 and aim to finish by 9pm. They are held in the cafe. In the meantime, if you want to be involved with making the park an even better place you can join the orchard watering ...

Adventure is out there!

Just landed in #hillyfields @adventureballons @BrockleyCentral pic.twitter.com/m2AUAFX47F— sepyoung (@sepyoung) June 19, 2014Developers: Quick, stick this in your renderings!