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Happy Christmas from Teazle Wood

24 Tuesday Dec 2013

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What a great year for Teazle Wood – so much has been achieved, and so many people came together to achieve it.Thank you to all the volunteers who have helped with the project so far – your contribution is so valuable. The goodwill and expertise we have aboard is amazing and, as always, greatly appreciated.

When I think back to all that has happened, one of the images that keeps popping up in my mind is the string of volunteers in September linking hands to collectively pull debris from one of the big ponds. The amount cleared in a few days, by hand, was remarkable. It reminded me of the ‘Giant Turnip’ story – everyone pulling together to achieve an outcome.

(For anyone who doesn’t know the story, “a grandfather plants a turnip, which grows so large that he cannot pull it up himself. He asks the grandmother for help, and they together still cannot pull it up. Successively more people are recruited to help, until they finally pull the turnip up together.

The specific ordering and set of people and sometimes animals varies. However in original Russian version the order is quite fixed, it is the grandfather (dedka), the grandmother (babka), the granddaughter (vnuchka), the female-dog (zhuchka), the female-cat (koshka) and finally the female-mouse (myshka). The moral of the story is that only with the help of the weakest and smallest creature (the mouse) can the giant turnip or radish (repka) be pulled up.” Thank you, Wikipedia!).

Have a wonderful Christmas, and a peaceful 2014. We will be doing more guided walks in Teazle Wood in late April, when the bluebells and wild garlic should be at their beautiful best (and the mosquitoes won’t yet be out in force!). Do e-mail me if you would like to be notified of dates and times.
three foxes sledging on a log in a wood

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Teazle Wood Summer Update

21 Wednesday Aug 2013

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It’s been a very positive and productive year in Teazle Wood – please find the Summer Update attached: Teazle Wood Update Summer 2013
The emphasis has been on getting to know the wood and starting to understand how best to care for it – we are lucky to have leading experts volunteering their time and knowledge, and various groups and individuals assisting in assembling surveys. Newts, butterflies, bats, birds, reptiles and amphibians, botany, archaeology, community use, etc. – there are so many fascinating aspects that are being investigated and recorded.
Fund-raising continues, with an impressive range of plant sales, open gardens, teas, sponsored events, choral events, guided walks, photographic workshops, the Waitrose ‘Community Matters’ programme, etc. All contributors and contributions are being carefully recorded for posterity, and will feature in a planned report/booklet of the Teazle Wood story (unless anonymity has been requested). Looking back, it is incredible what has been achieved by ‘community’, in its broadest sense, working so inventively for the common good.
A great deal of work has gone into the careful planning of the charity that will look after the wood – the Teazle Wood Trust – and we look forward to launching this soon.
The litter problem is ongoing (depressing, of course, but not unexpected) – a massive thank you to all who help collect the litter, and to those involved in the Teazle Wood Entrance Enhancement Project (TWEEP), which focuses specifically on the most abused area of the wood and the Rye Brook, close to Tesco. There is still major work to do, and we remain determined to find effective long-term solutions; we hope that our work will have positive implications further afield, too.
Land adjacent to Teazle Wood (behind Tesco) has been proposed for removal from the Green Belt for development, as part of Mole Valley District Council’s Green Belt Boundary Review. We have strongly opposed the lifting of the Green Belt here, and expressed our deep concerns about dense development immediately adjoining a natural site which is already under pressure.
Tours of Teazle Wood on Heritage Open Days in September have proved very popular – Thursday (both tours) is now fully booked, and we have just a few places left at 2pm on Saturday 14th. First come, first served, so e-mail me asap if you want to book.
Tree surgery has just taken place on the beautiful big oak tree at the entrance to Teazle Wood, to remove a rotting part of the tree that we were advised was in danger of falling on to the footpath. It is fascinating learning about the care of the wood’s most monumental occupants – we are getting to know individual trees very well!
I hope you’re having a lovely summer.
All the best,
Lucy

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Wild Garlic in Teazle Wood

16 Thursday May 2013

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The extraordinary Wild Garlic abundant in Teazle Wood, photographed during a meeting about bats, birds and ponds. We’re really looking forward to seeing the images that David Spink and his group come up with!

wild garlic white flowers in Teazle Wood

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Wildlife Photography Workshop in Teazle Wood 25th May

07 Tuesday May 2013

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Professional wildlife photographer David Spink is offering a Wildlife Photography Workshop in Teazle Wood to raise funds for the Teazle Wood campaign. The workshop will concentrate on helping participants to better understand the potential of their cameras and how to control shutter speed, aperture and depth of field. David will illustrate the above by focusing on MACRO (close-up) photography of the plethora of wild flowers starting to emerge in the wood.

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Soundbytes fundraising for Teazle Wood

31 Thursday Jan 2013

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Soundbytes, local choir, have decided that Teazle Wood will be the recipient for our next fund-raising concert. The concert is FREE with a retiring collection for Teazle Wood. Friday, 22nd March, at Christ Church (UR) Leatherhead, Epsom Road, L’head, KT22 8ST @8pm (last approx 1hr.) Please spread the word so we get a great turn-out. More info@hazelhannam.co.uk

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Two nice things

27 Sunday Jan 2013

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Janet Baker has just been in touch to say that she has so far raised an incredible £500 through her sponsored 75th birthday swim, with money still coming in, AND a lovely man who won £50 recently called in today to donate it to Teazle Wood.

Thank you to both for being such wonderful people!

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Happy Christmas from Teazle Wood

23 Sunday Dec 2012

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Teazle Wood pond restoration starts in January 2013, so do contact me if you want to get some fresh air and see how things are progressing.

Also in January, Janet Baker will be swimming an teazlewoodinspiring sponsored 75
lengths to celebrate her 75th birthday, and she will be raising money for Teazle Wood, New Build
at Nower Wood and ME Research UK.

If you can sponsor her, contact me and I will get more details to you. Happy Birthday, Janet!

Thank you to everyone for pulling together to achieve in 2012 what at one time seemed impossible – you are remarkable.

Wishing you a wonderful, peaceful Christmas and 2013,

Lucy Quinnell

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Welcome to Friends of Teazle Wood

23 Sunday Sep 2012

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conservation, ecology, teazle wood, woodland habitat, woodlands

Purple and white teazle in Teazle WoodTeazle Wood covers an area of over 50 acres of land in North Leatherhead, Surrey, by junction 9 of the M25.

For over 50 years the woodland has been in private hands but in 2012 it suddenly came up for auction. On on 31st July 2012 after a campaign led by Lucy Quinnell, Teazle Wood was purchased by the Friends of Teazle Wood. The aim was to secure the wood from any possible develpoment and to keep it in perpetuity as a woodland ecology.

The purchase was only made possible by the generosity of many people, businesses and organisations who care about saving the wood for the future, they both donated and loaned money to help meet the deadline auction date.

But we still need your help to help secure the woodland for the future, and to make it debt free. PLEASE SUPPORT THIS AMAZING PROJECT.

Stag Beetle

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