Today, we cracked on with re-staining the rest of our bench collection with my mate, who does what it says on the tin, Ronseal. And it didn’t rain!!! There’s a first!!

Don’t they look absolutely divine. Simple, yet elegant design, apart from the one near the underpass wildflower clearing, and every one of them has a view to die for. The reason the underpass bench lacks the elegance of the others, is because crowds of crazed teenagers hang around the underpass when it’s raining, and I couldn’t risk spending money on something that might get vandalised after a few cans of the fighting juice. The wood was found in a skip and the brackets holding it together cost just £1.28 in total. I can live with losing that, but thankfully it has survived attempts to set it on fire and stuff, despite looking like it came out of a 1970’s park in Moscow.

Whilst I happily painted away, Marcus and David litter picked two bags of grot. I finished first, so I build a little habitat pile out of sticks.

It all helps the little creatures find a comfy home.

After that we bumped into Mick and had a good old chinwag. Muggins here was so excited to see Mick, that I forgot to take photos of the bags of grot, but believe me when I say they were heaving.

We also had our weekender this week, where Charlie is creating a wildflower-rich clearing for his DofE Silver Award.

Grubbing out bramble-roots and then seeding with a wildflower seed mix.

Proof indeed that I don’t just hang around taking photos of everyone else.

It’s gonna look fantastic! Well done so far, Charlie.

And that, really, was that!! I popped down to Draycote Meadow afterwards to see if we are on the right track.

It’s possibly a bit early in the year to draw any inspiration yet. But I will keep checking it out.

We have some pretty massive stuff happening over May and June so watch this space. I think you will be amazed, and the tag-line, more than just a path, will really come into its own.

Thanks for reading and until next time!