Shugborough 3 Sept 2011

Seven volunteers turned out, and shared cars for a trip down the M6 to Shugborough.
We continued the task that we had started last month (21 Aug 2011). When we arrived we found some work had been done in our absence.Once again there a number of waders available, though the last pair belonging to Shugborough (as opposed to "ours") had been put away full of water! - so I didn't bother with them (I wasn't in the water). We had some people in the water pulling the reads and throwing them onto the bank, and some cleaning up the sandstone wall that holds up the "bank" using spades. - (see second photo)
This time I avoided getting completely coated in mud. In fact I found that with the aid of a pitch fork I could transfer the pulled material from where it was thrown on the bank to the pile without getting it on me at all!
This time we were asked to minimise the number of piles of pulled material - so we built two as it was getting to be quite a long walk to the first one by lunch time. The pile in the third photo represents half of the material we removed this time. With the group in the background tucking in to some well earned cake.The final photo is from the same view point as the first, and shows what we have done as well as the muddy marks on the grass which we are told will wash off with the first rain.