Bloomin’ heck!! Another absolutely freezing day today. However, after the first half hour we were starting to get a little warm under the collar!!

As stated in last week’s blog, there is an abandoned bench somewhere at the bottom of the embankment. Rugby Borough Council gave us two pairs of A-frames to make picnic benches, probably 12 or so years ago. One got destroyed by fire, and one went missing. Today we were on a mission to find the missing bench. The wooden seats and table-top had totally rotted away, a tree had fallen on top of it and one of the A-frames has minimal fire damage. But we got them up…

I kid you not, these bad boys weigh a ton!! They are made out of recycled car tyres. I have seen some abandoned wood that we can use to make new seats and a table-top. It will be nice to get further use out of them, and for free, too.

We also did some work on the snowdrop clearing.

The snowdrops on the inside edge of the path get trampled ever since the increased traffic happened during the COVID lockdowns, and daily exercise options.

What we have done is create habitat piles to try to gently push people back into the centre of the path, so the snowdrops have a chance to reach maturity and hopefully spread to create a white carpet in the early part of the year.

We want to encourage bramble and ivy to grow over the piles to make them more permanent. Yes, you heard that right – we want to encourage bramble growth!!

A robin redbreast was hopping around today inspecting our work. He seemed happy enough.

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No greenway workday next week due to Christmas (Merry Christmas, everyone). But we are back the following Wednesday after Christmas for our last workday of 2022!!

Until then!

Paul