Tuesday 24 June 2008

Sand, wind and rabbit fencing


8 vounteers turned out to Formby on, despite weather warnings, on Sunday and spent a few hours patching a rabbit fence - that should help keep them out of the tree nursery. We then had some ice cream, walked round the squirrel sanctuary - spotting three, looked at the beach, where the wind and whipped up a lot of foam before coming home.

Monday 16 June 2008

Fencing and Thistles at Lyme


10 turned out to Lyme Park (2 of whome were dads) and we worked with Chris the assistant head warden taking down a section of barbed wire cattle fence and re-placing with new posts & wire. Working in small sections to avoid the cattle escaping. Tony used the a mechanical post driver to put in the posts which saved a lot of effort.

As there were too many of us to keep busy on the fencing, some of us dug out thistles, which is a hard task, where the turf is dense it is difficult to get the spade in!

Tuesday 10 June 2008

Bumper turn out after 2 cancellations and a wedding


There is a bit of break in the dates - due to external factors 2 workdays had to be canceled.

We sometimes don't work on bank holiday weekends but a number of our members were out and about - celebrating the wedding of Megan and Daniel.

After three weeks off we made up for the rest with a large turnout or to quote our leader for the day.
I think you'll agree we had an excellent day rhody bashing at Dunham today. I've only once before rhody bashed in warm sunny weather and it was a change to see the rhodies' bright vivid greens and purple summer flowers breathe their last on the pyre. Usually the lights a lot more subdued and the colours muted. Bumper turnout too - as much to do with the venue as the promise of walnut & chocolate brownies. Two were left over - both for me because Megan doesn't like nuts :). Good to see that we all managed to find an alternative route to the car park first thing given that unexpected closing of Charcoal Road for resurfacing.