We had World Mental Health Day this week. It was actually yesterday (Tuesday 10th October). Ignore the posting date. That was when I started to thrash out this post as a draft. The blog always comes out on a Wednesday evening.
This is so important for us and one of the reasons that we do what we do.
With blokes there is a huge amount of loneliness and a complete inability to talk about it. This then creates a downward spiral where everything compounds to make matters ten times worse and sadly, depression sets in and that leads to bad things happening.
We are always here on a Wednesday morning, with coffee and biscuits at about 11 o’clock. Wander down and say hello if you need to. There is always a spare mug of coffee going, and we are full of light-hearted banter.
Enough said.
You may recall about a month ago I was wittering on about us being nominated for an award. I didn’t really give it much thought after that. I thought that there are so many other local volunteer groups doing such wonderful things, that nobody will be interested in what we are doing.
However…
We won a thing!! We are so happy about this. So very happy.
Last week we left the area at Berrybanks with a huge pond that is, no doubt, great for wildlife, but totally in the wrong place. Young children play in this area and having open water is just too risky.
We had cleared the drainage channels and agitated the blocked culvert. The water seems to have drained away. We will keep an eye on it, but if it drains like this I need not worry.
Today we were at our most southerly end and started clearing out all the spent wildflowers and encroaching bramble, that just keeps going and going and going… It doesn’t even seem to slow down in the winter.
The Potford Dam wildflower clearing is cleared out. To leave it means all the goodness from the dying wildflowers go into the ground and encourages all the thuggish stuff to grow like nettles, bramble and thistles. The area will eventually turn to scrub and biodiversity it greatly reduced.
Our YouTube of the clearing.
It looks a bit brutal but this is the way it has to be.
The paths between the wildflower clearings need to be wide enough to cater for all the human traffic. Namely, bikes and walkers.
We want to push the path back to the tree-line and let the wildlife live and move around beyond that. If we can pull it off it means the trail is working in so many different ways for so many different things.
We are just going to keep going, working northwards in this way, for the next five months. I just don’t see the point of putting ourselves under loads of time pressure. What gets done will get done. What gets left will get done next year.
That’s about it for this week. One last thing (you knew it was coming!!)…
I got a little bit overexcited when I saw Qatar and Kuwait appear on the daily map stats. When I checked back I noticed that someone from Qatar had viewed back in 2017, so I consoled myself to one new country view this week. However, as I quietly sulked over the weekend, someone from Kosovo had a look and a really good look because they registered five page views. Thank you Kuwait person and Kosovo person. You have taken our country view total to an amazing 117 out of 195 countries in the world, which is 60%. In your mind’s eye, imagine me licking my lips excitedly.
Until next week!
Cawston Greenway 
Thank you and congratulations x
😀
Well done you fabulous people
Thanks. Truly humbled 😀
Sorry I did
I’m sorry I did that didn’t I
Hey what? 🙂
Thank you for sharing this great post.
On the Flag counter – congrats! I get so excited when I see another new flag – my last was Yemen but sadly, WP stats don’t align with the Flag Counter. 😦
Ah thanks, I had Yemen a few weeks ago, and then next door in Oman a couple of weeks later. What started as a bit of fun has become quite addictive 😀
Travel is definitely addictive!
I’m in Bulgaria now, is that a new country for you?! Maggie
Hi, sadly no. We had that a while ago. Your visit has been recorded though, along with UK, USA, North Macedonia, Australia, India, Italy, Philippines, Pakistan and Israel, so a busy day across the world. Thanks for thinking about us though 🙂
Bigtime congratulations on your volunteer award! It’s always humbling to know your efforts are recognized. Well done. And congrats on the stat visits. I’m always in awe of people who swing by my own site and too often think “my goodness, people…you need to get a life.” LOL Keep up the good work!
Thank you. The flag count has become a bit of a hobby in itself… A bit geeky but who cares 😀
It may be geeky, but it’s fun to see folks from around the world all the same. Revel in it, we say!
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Good work on the path!
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Thanks for reading 😀
You have a pretty decent blog 🙂
Good morning, let’s help people learn and understand people with mental illness, giving them a positive perspective of how things happen to people, and how we can help them.
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Good morning great enjoy and don’t forget to put a smile on someone’s face today.
Ace.
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Very important issue.
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