A 'thank you' letter from Neil, a member of MNTV as well as a Scout Leader:
Just a note to thank everyone who came to help at Boarfold Scout campsite this weekend, a lot of work was
completed which has saved me, personally, a lot of work.
As numbers dropped out, Myself and Jenny were the only ones staying over
on the Friday night.
After taking a look around the buildings and a walk down the site
and explaining to Jenny the work that I hoped would be done over the weekend,
we went back to enjoy a pizza together.
Morning arrived and so did Tim, and not long after that Christine and
Andy. I took the car and trailer down to the new toilet block with all the
tools in and the others walked down the site. There was agreement that the site
was much bigger than they thought, and to their horror much steeper, it wasn’t
easy coming back up afterwards.
We started off across the field at the bottom near the public
footbridge, where we repaired the inner fence, putting in more posts to support
the fencing. Putting up a notice to ask the people and Scouts to go around the
fence to get to the scout camp, as the footpath does, and not through it
! We rectified the fence further down so that the sheep could not
get into the boundary hedge, so giving it protection to allow it to
grow. We then removed another fence, using the wire to supplement
the first fence we had worked on, and also to give us more barbed wire to attach
to the previous fence to stop people coming over the fence. Afterwards we
followed the fence up the hill putting in posts thus producing a 100% better
fence.
After Lunch we decided to start cutting back the trees and hedges that
had started to over grow the field. Cutting it back gave us a 5 yard
perimeter extra to the field! Wow!
We wrestled for a while with all the cuttings and decided
to down tools for the day, we ascended back up to the buildings, and prepared
the evening meal, Sue joining us for the meal with Christine providing a choice
of puddings with cream! After the washing up had been done Tim, Christine
and Andy left us.
Sunday brought with it rain. Adrian arrived as did Hazel and
Alpay. We had decided with the poor weather forecast to stay around the
buildings. Adrian was given the task of planting some hedging around the
fence and some shrubs to segregate the camping sites.
The rest of us started digging a ditch to take a drain, to drain off the
carpark near the buildings. Whilst we were digging the ditch and sieving the
stones from the clay, it didn’t take long for the rain to fill the ditch, and
Sue enjoyed the water play, pulling out the stones. Oh Sue!
As we completed the ditch it was decided that as the rain was coming
down harder and harder, we would have an early lunch and then go home.
Again on behalf of the Boarfold Scout Camp Committee, I would like to thank
everyone for their help over the weekend. |
| Yes, it rained! |
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