After what seems like a never ending winter of rain, tempest, snow and more rain, the plants and flowers are starting to bloom.
Time to get the garden tools out of the shed and plan for 2018!
We are entering the RHS annual ' Its Your Neighbourhood ' 2018 competition again. Judging is in July.
We are very pleased to welcome to a new working member called Daniel, who is a part time professional gardener, which is great news! An extra pair of hands goes a long way.
Talking about news, the big event of this year will be our 25th anniversary ' Party on the Platform ' on Saturday 25th of August , from 10.00am until 5pm. This will be celebrating a quarter of a century as custodians of the station.
There will be various stalls and attractions on the station platform and steam in the car park in the form of 2 mini traction engines plus much more!
It should be a great day and celebration of much change, achievement, and camaraderie since 1993.
So please tell you friends and family to come along and say hello to help us celebrate a considerable milestone!
Watch this space for updates!
Welcome to this, our brand new Website and the first ' happenings ' update for 2017. OCTOBER.
After another very busy year for us all at the Station, we were very pleased to receive a ' Cornwall Community ' 2017 Award certificate presented at an Awards evening at The Eden Project in late September. Many similar groups were there to be acknowledged by Cornwall Council for their tremendous efforts in 2017.
During the last few months the Wheel Seat has received a fresh coat of paint, courtesy of Phyllis. Steve and Phyllis also managed to repaint the running-inboard at the Falmouth end and one of the station's benches as the sun shone!
Dave and Jan have planted bulbs and strimmed around to keep the ever growing grass down. 2 of the small Palm trees, which are looking a bit poorly, have been trimmed and the trunks will be removed shortly. By doing this two areas of the gardens have been 'opened up ' and look a lot better.
2018 is promising to be a tremendous year for the Friends! Not least we wil be celebrating our 25th Anniversary since the group's formation in 1993.
Currently we are are looking for 2 more volunteers who would be interested in joining us and help keep the Station in tip top condition appearance and condition. No skills necessary, but only enthusiasm and a couple of hours spare once a month.
We are a friendly bunch and you will receive a warm welcome.
Interested?
Then please contact us in the first instance at our email address:
thefriendsofpenmerestation@gmail.com