I stayed at home this week, so thanks to Daniel for the text and photo
Eight of us enjoyed a varied workday at Lyme Park in fabulous spring sunshine. The chairman made his first worksite appearance of 2009! We split into two groups of four in the morning: one group attached chicken wire to tree guards near Lantern Wood and the other group edged the lawn outside the stableyard. After lunch we worked as one group near the shop bowsawing up a black poplar and oak tree that had blown down in the winter gales. The trees had fallen on top of a drystone wall and we were beginning the process of cutting them up so that they can be chainsawed, cleared away and the wall repaired. Lyme has 20 miles of drystone wall and there is a team of mid-week volunteers dedicated to patching them up!
The warm sunny weather brought out the crowds and the wardens had to leave us after lunch to manage the carparking. The main carpark below the hall can take about 550 cars and on bumper days like today more than 1200 cars come through the gates
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