Please don’t use the slope that runs between the Cawston Bridleway and the greenway. It’s like a Val-d’Isere ski run.

Some poor bloke came off his pushbike trying to cycle down it a couple of weeks ago. The wail of pain could be heard in Dunchurch as his nether regions smashed into his crossbar!

There are plans afoot to get a proper wooden flight of steps put in, but these things, as I am sure we all know, take forever to organise. I just have a horrible fear that in the meantime, someone is going to slip and crack their spine on the protruding rocks. It’s just not worth the risk.

What we have done is made a temporary path along the top of the cutting, and it gently pushes people out where the drop is far more sedentary and manageable.

We as a group, cannot build steps or any other physical structure where people might trip over and hurt themselves, so hopefully this is a halfway measure to allow people to get on and off without having to scale the Alps.

Did I mention that it was snowing today?

It was nice to get under the bridge and enjoy a hot coffee and a coconut cookie.

Still a little bit of work to do with the transition from the greenway to the start of the rise upwards. We will tackle this next week to make it as seamless as possible.

We also litter-picked two bags of grot. Beer cans and bottles, and dog poo bags, mainly.

Next week we have a “tree pack” from the Woodland Trust to plant into our hedge along the Hawthorn Walk, we also need to split a load of the snowdrops further down the path and replant them in the clearing here to fill in some of the gaps. And the little bit of work on the path transition.

I think we may split into small groups but meet here and see how the Arctic weather influences our morning workday.

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Well that’s it for this week, I’m trudging off to buy some snow-shoes…

Until next time!

Paul