We’ve once again taken part in ‘No Mow May’ which is a national scheme to encourage wild flowers and environment care by leaving an area of grass uncut for the month.

As part of the Eco Church scheme, we’re changing our mowing regime by raising the height of the mower blades and cutting less frequently. This will result in a thicker grass covering, encouraging low lying wild flowers. It will also reduce the radiated heat emitted from the ground into the atmosphere, so we’ll be doing our bit to slow climate change.

New life is emerging in the churchyard as there is a nesting pair of blue tits in one of our nest boxes. They’ve been quite noisy of late and can be clearly heard.

June 8th is the start of ‘Love Your Burial Ground’ week and as part of this Junior Church will be making a bug hotel as part of their meeting on June 9th.

Later in June we will be welcoming some Lindley Infants School children to see our bug hotel and find out about its construction and inhabitants.