Nine volunteers met up with ranger Ceara for a day of reseeding some grassed areas and a bit of tree/sapling thinning.
So far so good, until Ceara explained. First off the two Andys went to look at dismantling two bike parking stands which in fact weren't even fixed into the ground, so job soon done.
We were told what trees needed cutting back and pruning so some of us got stuck into that. What we didn't know was that before we could reseed we had to rake up all the fallen leaves and acorns. This was quite a large area which runs between the bottom car park and the path down to the mill. Undaunted we set to with Jenny and Jean using petrol driven leaf blowers and as each of the other jobs finished we all worked at raking the leaves.
In fact Ceara had four vanloads each with six builders bags full of leaves to take round to the compost. We managed to clear all the leaves but only managed to reseed half of it.
Thanks to Ceara for a good workday and to my colleagues who worked hard doing a back breaking job.
Christine
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