Welcome!

Thursday, December 16th 2010

Ta-dah!  

Welcome to our new website and new-look blog. 

computer screen with red ribbon

Over the past few months Vicky and Jez (below) from Makehay ethical e-media have been working away turning huge amounts of Foxglove information and photographs into the website you can see today.

Vicky and Jez

Here at Foxglove we think it looks wonderful and we're sure you will too!  Have a look around, explore all of our new pages - especially the Interactive Map and the Species List pages.  You can now book events on-line, as well as purchase or re-new your Adopt-a-Box and Friends subscriptions.   There is a whole new section especially for Education, where, again, you can make enquiries on-line.  For all the work that has already been done, there is a lot still to do.  The Gallery will have new albums added and the species list needs photos, but all in all we're sure you will love our new look.

Last night we held our Christmas dinner.  Over fifty people enjoyed a traditional Christmas meal and participated in quizzes, a raffle and a decorated egg competition!  There was also live music from Suzi and Mick Darling, who regaled us with folk songs from around the country.

Enjoying the dinner

Enjoying the festivities

There were lots of entries for the decorated egg competition which was hard fought.  In the end, after a lot of deliberation on the part of Sophie and myself,  there was only one that could win,- Wendy's 'Robin building a nest'.

Robin building a nest competition winner

Second prize was given to Beryl's depiction of two gentlemen bird-ringers.  I wonder who they could be?

Boiled egg bird-ringers

The raffle, ably sold by Stan and Amy, raised £135 on the night.  Thank you to everyone who donated prizes and items for the hampers. 

There was a special award given to the Driver of the Year.  There were three nominees and the vote on the night meant that our Chairman, Col. Guy Deacon, was the worthy winner who walked off with the prize.  (See the post for 9th. December to see why!)

All in all a good night was had by all.  Thank you to everyone who helped make the night a success and who gave their time before the event or on the night.  Thanks as well to everyone for their continued support.  We wouldn't be here without it!

The morning after the night before and the snow is back as if it hadn't been away!

Sunshine on the frozen lake

It's been a busy old day here with the Askham Bryan students clearing up the work left over from Tuesday and contractors coming to look at the lake prior to putting in quotes for the extension work next year.  

Once again, welcome to the new site, we hope you enjoy it!


(1) Comments:

Dragonslair responded on 17th Dec 2010 with...

A truely lovely website. Love the bigger and clearer photos. Nicely displayed too.
Excellent work.


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