As we look ahead and look forward to the time when we can all be back out again enjoying ourselves (all of us) and after a while reverting to old habits (me) about the amount of pre judging TT work to be done, its good to remember what we were doing this time last year! As well as all the weeding (sorry, i'll drop it now) we were also right in the middle of planning for our Bioblitz event in conjunction with Offaly County Council which took place over a Wednesday and Thursday

Winning the National Local Authority Pollinator Award in 2017 was unexpected, we have to admit, but a fantastic reward for the work we had put in over the previous number of years. Our community had put in a huge effort, but on a human level this was rewarded a thousand-fold every time one of us saw a bumblebee happily feasting on one of our flowering plants. The next thing was though, how would we build on this success in 2018? When you feel you have done everything you poss