Eight of us met Ranger Alex in the main car park at Lyme Park at 9.30am, and walked up towards the Lantern to where the was some rhody, in huge piles, waiting to be burned.
We soon got the fire started and the rest of us were kept busy un-tangling the rhody that had previously been left by other volunteers, so it could be dragged nearer the fire site, and then cut into shorter lengths to be loaded on the fire.
It was a dry but cold day. We managed to get all the pre-cut branches burned, before starting on other rhody in the area that was still growing, so we could cut and burn that too.
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| Lunchtime |
Sue, one of our MNTV volunteers and also a Lyme Park volunteer, found us to say hello - today was a day she was volunteering at Lyme rather than with us.
Chris, the Lead Ranger at Lyme, took a break from doing paperwork and came to see how we were getting on as well.
We loaded the fire until it was nearly time to finish, then we put orange netting round it (far enough away so it didn't melt!) to alert anyone who might walk through after we'd left. Then we walked back down to the car park, satisfied that we'd done a good days work!!
Thanks to Adrian for additional photo's.
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