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October 2021 Benefice Newsletter and Apple Pressing
0 The October benefice newsletter is now available to view or download from here. We have our annual apple-pressing community day at Greenholme, Bewcastle on Saturday 9th October [..]
A brief summary so far…
1+ It has been a long while since anything was posted concerning our attempts to work with this land on which we live. Silence has been kept through [..]
Apple Pressing 2018
0 Everyone seems to have an abundance of apples this year, many of which have ripened early. If you still have apples, our pressing day this year is [..]
Apple Pressing 2017
0 Another year in the round and another apple pressing day. This year it’s on Saturday 14th October, 1-4pm at Greenholme, Bewcastle. Everyone welcome. Bring your own apples [..]
Apple Day 2016
0 Well what a great time we had! Juice everywhere, sticky fingers, mucky clothes, mashed apple and wasps! It was good to welcome new faces as well as [..]
Apple Pressing Day – 1st October 2016
0 Saturday, 1st October, 2pm to 5pm, apple juicing at Greenholme, Bewcastle. Bring along your surplus apples that you would like to be juiced, and some clean containers [..]
A success at last? Learning how to sing
0 Trying to listen to our land and find ways of enalbing it to sing while providing for us is proving to be difficult. Constant rain, heavy waterlogged [..]
1st Swallows
0 Our first swallows arrived today, Thursday 16th April, exactly the same date as last year (2014), and 3 days earlier than 2013 (19th April). Today also heralded [..]
Solar Eclipse 20th March 2015
0 The view of the eclipse from Greenholme, where we had an eclipse magnitude of 0.93, or 93% of the sun eclipsed at around 09.35GMT. 0
Solargraph
0 A solargraph is a photograph of the sun as it courses across the firmament. It is usually taken using a pinhole camera with exposure times varying from [..]