Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Have You Seen The Creative Carvings?

Miscellaneous, People

2013-06-27 heron

A Heron Eyeing Some Fish

David Pottinger writes:

If you came to the Wildlife Open Day at the Pond in May this year, you may have seen the wood carving talking place. The carvings are still there and being greatly appreciated!

They’re near the picnic area (see map of Fleet Pond on the About page above for details).

For example, a recent visitor to the Pond, Jean Belgrove, writes:

We have spent such a happy weekend exploring Fleet Pond with children.

Particularly, the wood carvings at the picnic area were fantastic fun.  We spent ages there enjoying and identifying the carvings and playing balancing games on the logs surrounding this area.

To have logs of different sizes on the ground for children to play balancing games and appropriately lengthened poles for them to make dens was a wonderful facility.

Many thanks to you all for a heavenly experience.

2013-06-27 owl seat

A Handy Place To Sit And Listen To Some Wise Words

If you have some time and are looking for something different to do, why not pay a visit to the Pond and take a look at the carvings and seats?

2013-06-27 animal

Can You Guess What This Is?

Photo credits: David Pottinger

Fleet Pond Blog – 2012 In Review

Miscellaneous

David Pottinger writes:

This is the official WordPress review of Fleet Pond Blog (click on the link below for details) – my personal review (in pictures) is coming shortly! :

“The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 23,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 5 Film Festivals

Click here to see the complete report.“

More On The Air Ambulance

Miscellaneous

The helicopter in the picture above belongs to Surrey Air Ambulance. Interestingly, until recently Surrey was one of only a few counties in the UK that did not have its own dedicated Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS). This changed in June 2007!

The service, based at Dunsfold Park, flies fast, direct and unhindered at over 150 miles per hour and the entire county can be reached within minutes.

The principal challenge for the registered charity is to meet the yearly running costs of approximately £1.5 million to provide Surrey and neighbouring Sussex with an emergency helicopter service, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.