Well over 50 sea members, family and friends gathered at Colin and Carole's lovely field overlooking the Forder creek on Sunday 14^th June.

The event started with a treasure hunt for the children and an eco-quiz for the slightly older members and then, before our picnic, Roger introduced everyone to the ideas behind the Transition Town movement. He explained what it would mean for Saltash if we do decide to become an official Transition Town - in other words, one of the growing number of towns both here in the UK and across the world who are actively preparing themselves for the changes that will occur, whether we like it or not, due to both climate change and to the fact that oil is inevitably going to become more scarce and expensive as supplies dwindle. This is a very exciting movement and the feeling amongst us picnicers was very positive, almost everyone thought that we should 'give it a go' so watch this space!

The 'Bring and Share' picnic was a triumph! With absolutely no pre-organisation a perfect meal materialised! It included lots of locally grown and sourced food – just as it should be for an environmental group! I can't mention everything but here's a selection! Forder creek sea-kale quiches,  local Cornish cheeses, local eggs, Burraton Combe raspberries, Saltash lettuce and even quail's eggs , laid just yards away from the picnic site!

As the sun set and it became chillier we were kept warm as we chatted to each other by sea's improvised alternative to a firepit – a fire in an upturned metal dustbin lid raised up on bricks!