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Permalink Reply by Daniel Cowan on August 5, 2019 at 18:14

Hi Ann,

I would love to take the credit for the lovely New River photo mentioned above, but actually it was taken by Ross Goodlass and Claire Cahill of the excellent @myddletonroad instagram account. If anyone else has nice pictures of the local area please let me know and we will see if we can feature them in the weekly Bowes & Bounds Connected email.

Daniel

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Permalink Reply by Meg Bond on August 11, 2019 at 17:20

Thank you for your inspiring vision, Ann. Sadly I can't make either of those training day dates. But I've  passed the word around.

The stretch of New River between Whittington Rd and Myddleton Rd is now flourishing, with wildlife and insects returning, including beautiful dragonflies.

The weed seemed to disappear quickly. Do you have any idea how that happened? Did someone come and pull it out?

Our stretch of river north of Whittington Rd is still very weedy with very little wildlife. I'm still ringing Thames Water and having pleasant chats with their call centre people but the mythical Grounds Team have never rung me back as promised.

Any suggestions about what else to do? If we had a working group to pull out the weed, how would we dispose of it?

Regards

Meg

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Permalink Reply by Ann Walsh on August 12, 2019 at 19:48

Hi Meg!

Thankyou so much for spreading the river training days word around. Bless you.

I am currently trying to educate myself about river health etc so in truth I have no idea as I have not gone on the training. This week I shall be attending a river litter clean organised by the Pymmes Brookers so will start to get a better idea about what happens and how things are dealt with.

Interesting you say you are north of whittington road. I am on the other bit..the stretch of the New River between Whittington Road and Myddleton Road. I walked up your bit this afternoon and noticed lots of fish in there. So clearly life is still thriving. 

If I get any more information on river weed/sewage weed and what the difference and how to deal with it  I will let you know. I'm pretty ignorant but interested in learning so we can all help nature out.

Regards

Ann

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