Seven volunteers met in the car park at Styal in a downpour. Thankfully, by the time we got to the work site for the day, the rain was only a drizzle. This and the lack of promised flapjack (it was still in the work site leader's kitchen - an omission blamed on his other half) were the only downsides. We even got sunshine in the afternoon.There was a change to the planned task (fencing), as some logs needed to be moved from the village schoolyard. Several larch had been cut down as part of the clearance of an area for a new school building - the large logs will be made into outdoor play equipment. These larger pieces had to be dragged by tractor with two of the volunteers helping position the logs using logging poles and stewarding the tractor through the village. A couple of piles of smaller (but still substantial) logs were moved and stacked in the work yard.
Meanwhile, the rest of the group revived a fire and started clearing everything except mature trees from the back of the Norcliff chapel, an area that had become overgrown with laurel, holly and a few rhododendrons. After lunch, this was where the whole group were working and most of the area was free of shrubs and saplings by the time we finished.
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