20 places have been reserved for a members lunch at the Wishing Well.
Weather permitting, we will meet in the gardens at 12.30pm for pre-lunch drinks & sit down for lunch at 1pm.
As we will be a large party, if you would like to attend, please could you pre-order from the attached lunch menu & notify the RWS secretary, Susana (Malik) either by phone, 07944617553 or email, susanamalik@yahoo.com by the Sunday 5th of September, with your choice of menu.
Numbers are limited & will be allocated on a ‘first come, first served bases’. Susana will notify you if you have a place.
Having postponed our planned picnic due to bad weather earlier this summer, we were certainly lucky at our second attempt. . It was great to see an excellent turnout with plenty of new members of the Society joining in and it was generally agreed that the format of a bring your own picnic and enjoy a riverside location among friends is one which we will re-programme next year.
There has been some, albeit slow progress in trying to make safe the Broadwey to Nottington footpath which forms part of the Wey Valley walks. An RWS working group has been clearing the sides of the path, so that walkers can see the edge, thus avoiding stepping unwittingly over the bank and into the relief channel. We have also asked the Environment Agency to clear the channel bed and sides, so that we can then reconstruct the bank edges. We owe our thanks to Martin Madley for allowing us to place the debris on his land for disposal; this has saved an enormous amount of time. There is plenty of work still to do, but we do have the volunteers to complete this important project.
Looking ahead, there will be a members lunch at the Wishing Well on Sunday 12th September, kindly organised by our Secretary Susana Malik . Then in October, we are planning to welcome a guest speaker at a members evening with either a Wey Valley Wildlife or Geological theme.
