b'HOTEL This is the first year that I have hadFOR BUGS! includes a ceanothus, an aquilegia, my greenhouse, and so have been ableequisetum hyemale, and a selection of to grow a variety of plants for the gardenother aquatic plants.from seed. This year we have managedThe bug hotel was built from odd bits of to grow plants such as rudbeckia,wood we had lying around in the garden. Canterbury bells, teasel, borage, bonsai,The ground-floor level has straw and brick verbena bonariensis and love-in-a-mist,material, which is used by crawling bugs alongside the usual sunflowers, alliums,and insects. The middle floor contains pine foxgloves and poppies. cones and old bark, which often houses I extended the pond before building theladybirds. The top level is mainly wood, croft wall around it. The tree on the leftand I have drilled holes into the wood at is a dwarf weeping cherry tree, whichdifferent depths for flying insects and bees produced pink blossom early in spring;to use, as they feel they are well protected there is a Christmas tree on the right whichonce inside.has had some maintenance pruning duringMr McCarronlockdown. Planting around the pond A CATAPULTINSTRUCTIONS:1.Place the eight plain lollipop sticks on top of each other to make a pile.to launch a piece of paper into a bin 2.Put a blue lollipop stick at the top and bottom of the pile.3.Tie an elastic band approximately 1cm from the Design and make a mechanism using stationery (pencils, pens, elasticend of the pile to hold all the sticks together.bands, Sellotape etc) that can be used to throw a ball of paper into a bin 4.Slide a green lollipop stick at a 90 degree angle to the other sticks between the bottom blue lollipop stick and the plain lollipop stick above To make a mechanism that canit.Stop sliding the green stick when it reaches throw a paper ball into a bin youthe centre.will need: 5.Repeat the process using the other green 3 large elastic bands lollipop stick but this time place it between 8 plain lollipop sticks the top blue lollipop stick and the plain stick 4 painted lollipop sticks (paintbeneath it.your own) 6.Tie an elastic band approximately 1cm from the A milk bottle lid end of the pile to hold all the sticks together so A glue gun that there is an elastic band 1cm from either end of the lollipop stick stack.7.Press one end of the green lollipop sticks together and secure them together with an elastic band to create a lever.8.Use a glue gun to secure the milk bottle lid at the top of the green lollipop stick as shown in the photographs.9.Your catapult is now ready! Put a ball of paper into the lid, press the lid down, let go and fire the paper into the bin.Joshua Holdsworth 8N12'