ACTIVITIES

Festival of Light has become The Beach of Dreams – a spectacular installation of 500 individually designed silk flags on Lowestoft South Beach on 26th and 27th June.

Over fifty people were lucky enough to get free seeds and compost this weekend, courtesy of Most Easterly Community Group.

'Help Make the High Street Bloom' gave away seeds for people to brighten up their windowsills and balconies and gardens. So later in the year there will be new begonias and sunflowers and even radishes greeting the sun, not to mention glorious cornflowers and rampant ranunculus.

A chance to meet up and get free bulbs - see you there

** also on Sunday **

Local and Suffolk Walking groups

University of the Third Age Walking Grouphttps://u3asites.org.uk/lowestoft/page/38087

Walking For Health - national website but you can search for Lowestoft walk dates.https://www.walkingforhealth.org.uk/

Waveney Ramblershttps://www.ramblers.org.uk/waveney

First Light has come up with a smashing idea to celebrate nature, birds, travel and Lowestoft – First Flight, A Season of Bird Boxes. 

From seedlings great things can grow

In April I was one of the happy recipients of Most Easterly's great seed giveaway.

A sunflower seedling, a strapping 2cms of natural power. I re-potted it, and put it on my window-sill.

It's now over a metre tall, and two days ago the flowerhead started to develop. 

"It is a form of Fermat's spiral. The angle 137.5° is related to the golden ratio (55/144 of a circular angle, where 55 and 144 are Fibonacci numbers) and gives a close packing of florets." (Wikipedia) 

First Light's First Flight bird box celebration marks out the town, from Kensington Gardens to Compass Street.

Here's a short video

North Lowestoft Men's Shed shedders have looked round the Denmark Road building, owned by Network Rail.

It's the old Menzies distribution depot, and then it was Chadds' storage warehouse.. It's been there many years.

It looks perfect to us. We've not had a structural survey done, but it's been there since before 1900, and it looks solid as a rock. On the other hand, it needs a lot of work to bring it up to spec. Which makes it – perfect.

And there's a bit of land around, which can be used for gardening, bees, sunset watching.