It took our "green team" volunteers at Selwyn's Wood nature reserve 11 weeks to mow and clear up three rides - even with dry weather and our cutterbar mower. That was far too long because holidays, sickness, family jamborees and other interests, always leave us short of bodies.

So I long to find half-a-dozen Heathfield people, male, female, old or young to join us. We had two highly skilled locals who unfortunately had to give up the work through illness or moving house, but nobody else from Heathfield has ever worked on the reserve in my time.

Most volunteers have been from "foreign" parts. Currently our regulars live at Boreham Street, Eastbourne, Hooe, Rotherfield, and Uckfield.

We enjoy the friendly teamwork, looking after the birds and the bees, working with trees and wood and becoming skilled with real honest-to-goodness forestry hand-tools. We work one morning a week, and one Sunday morning a month, and most of us enjoy to "stand and stare" occasionally. We can make good use of any person of any age to suit their skills. So why not come along and see what we do. Phone me on ... and I'll happily fix a visit.

The reserve is owned by Sussex Wildlife Trust and is mainly for the pleasure and interest of Heathfield people. So: COME ON HEATHFIELD, I NEED YOU!

John Hall © 2003