Filling in the form

I went to the Community Council Meeting last night at the Asian Centre, although I have to confess I didn't stay to the end. I introduced myself to Naz, our ward councillor, and he promised to mention our garden as a project that needs supporting. He returned his completed page of the form to me in the post today, with a very nice letter. Tony wasn't as quick as Barry, and I managed to catch him as he was just about to leave home and pressed the forms into his hands. he will make a start on filling the rest of it in. Michael and I will go down to the Nationwide tomorrow to ask if they can stamp the page about our finances. They may make us wait for an appointment, as they did with opening the account.
Anyone with any more ideas about what else we want to do in the garden should let Tony know.
Time is getting short !

Good News !

Angie and Paul have joined the ranks of garden workers, Angie says she's terrified of worms, but luckily we were able to assure her that there aren't any in this garden. Well, none that will dare to show their faces and frighten her away. Paul is agreeing to play shotgun while Angie plants. She's putting some more of the daffs along the drive side by the garage.
The other good news is that we have a sponsor for our Lottery Bid ! www1.walthamforest.gov.uk/moderngov/mgUserInfo.asp?UDI=483&J=1
If this link works then this should take you to the man in question, our local ward councillor, Naz Sarkar. He called me today and had a chat about our project, he's signing the lottery form and sending it back to us.
I've made a start on the rest of the form, and I'm hoping that Tony will give me a hand to help complete it. I'm sure Mick will be a lot of help with the sheet where we have to show costs and things. I have sort of warned him !
It would be really nice to have a proper professional board like they have in the churchyard to say what the garden is, and what is in it. How can we get a quote for one of those ?

Done it !

This weekend has seem a flurry of activity in the garden, and I think the bulk of the bulbs have been planted. Malcolm has put clumps of grape hyacinths and Green Spaces daffs around the shrubs at the front, there's a big clump of red and cream tulips in the corner between Miranda's and the garage wall, and small clumps of daffs and narcissus along the back wall. Malcolm also put a big central circle of daffs and narcissus, which should look really good. Miranda has also been doing some planting, so I hope she can use the comments section on this to tell us where.
Next task will be to fill in the 32 page grant form which has to reach the Lottery by 13th December. I've sent another e-mail to out local councillor, Naz Sarkar, to ask him to be our sponsor. I'm hoping that Tony and Mick can get together to help fill in the practical bits about what we want the money for. I will be knocking on doors, asking for help, shortly.

New member

Here is Emrie, our youngest volunteer ! He and his grandfather, Sam, have been helping in the garden. He likes football and digging. On the subject of digging, Ivan has done a wonderful job, and most of the garden is looking in excellent shape. Michael and i have been to the dump with roots and rubble, but there's still some we need to take. I'm doing a lot of talking about bulbs, but not much is happening. Do we have a plan ?

We need to get planting !

We have taken delivery of the 100 bulbs from WF Green spaces, so we really need to get going with the planting ! There's a few other assorted bulbs to go in as well, so hopefully there will be some sort of plan for this.
It's getting dark earlier now, so I will try to get out and do some in the week, but it would be good if we could all get out and do some. I know Ivan has done most of the digging, I've had Joel and Nathan out a bit, but they are rather approximate diggers. Any chance of any other volunteers ?