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apricotmarina wrote a new post, Our new woodstore 5 months, 2 weeks ago
We have just built a new wood-store and filled it up with split logs and boxes of kindling – it is immensely satisfying and makes you feel warm and safe just looking at it. So why am I telling you this ? Apart […]
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apricotmarina wrote a new post, New Roots Project … or making a couch potato 6 months ago
In spring we were asked if we would like to work with the Colchester museum service to create an allotment and an installation in Castle park in collaboration with themselves nad the homeless people of Colchester. […]
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apricotmarina wrote a new post, Making a Dragon at Ardleigh Primary School 6 months ago
The Apricot centre was asked to make a dragon story telling seat in the school grounds from designs the children had done, only using materials from the immediate vicinity – aka Anglo -Saxon builders might have […]
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apricotmarina wrote a new post, Brick Lane to Hungerdown Lane 6 months ago
Brick lane is a few minutes walk from Liverpool street station and is famous for its curry houses and Bangladeshi community. Hungerdown lane is half way between Manningtree and Colchester and is very pretty but […]
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Marina O’Connell wrote a new blog post: Gardening with children 3 years, 3 months ago
It is a grey damp November morning in Harwich, and clusters of children are in an allotment perched on a small cliff overlooking the sea. One group are watering the winter salad they have sown in the polytunnel that they have put up in the summer. Another group are pricking out seedlings for more winter [...]
