No smutty giggles at the back, please…
The Beaver Moon is called such, because it is when beavers prepare dams ready for the winter. It is also the time that humans would trap beavers for their furs. The Beaver Moon has a spiritual meaning of creating action and transformation in one’s life.
Another little pub quiz snippet that you can thank me for, later.
Today we met at the halfway point at the underpass and pushed in both directions. The southern push was to try and re-tame our hawthorn hedge, and also to see how far we could get with a battery-powered strimmer.
We want to get a couple more strimmers and keep the path wide over the spring and summer. I hate the way the nettles close in and make it uncomfortable for everyone, so we just want to push the path outwards and then have the short-grass, wildflower-rich long-grass, shrubby scrub and then woodland transition.
The underpass clearing is now cleared ready for next year’s wildflower growth.
Still a bit of tidying to do, but thankfully cleared of the dreaded bramble that really is our nemesis.
We covered over 300 metres today, so we are happy with that. We pushed northwards making the path nice and wide so it drys out and people can share it without pushing each other into the scrub.
However, the next bit is going to be tough. We have four workdays to try and clear as much of this section as possible, and navigate the path around the flooded bit. After that it will be the New Year and we will be back at the south end making scallops and stuff for wildlife micro-habitats.
Our YouTube of the progress today.
We had a really interesting conversation around our Douglas Fir, named Dougie, last week.
Steve suggested that it would be a good thing to collect tree seeds and plant them for others to enjoy, when the tree is 300 or so years old. What a wonderful legacy to leave. I think we could develop this idea and work with it.
Thanks, Steve.
For the next few weeks, I’m not sure what is worse. Dealing with the flooding or dealing with the ever encroaching brambles. The next four workdays are going to test us…
As always, spare coffee is available if anyone wants to pop along for a chat or join in. Don’t let the Christmas season drag you down if you are not feeling it.
Lastly, and you knew it was coming… We have yet another new country tuning in…
Bahrain. Feeling truly humbled with gosh knows how many people from 123 different countries around the world taking time to look at this blog.
Thank you.
Until next time!
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Thanks for the background on the designation for this latest moon’s name. We had no idea.
It’s been a journey of discovery for me as well 🙂
Is there an eventual plan to link the Cawston Greenway up to the end of the route 41 greenway in Birdingbury? Just imagining a complete, unbroken line of greenway from Sydenham Canal in Leamington Spa all the way into Rugby.
That is the plan. Funding is there for the bridge across the Fosse Way and to bring it to Draycote. Hopefully there will be funding to then carry it on past Dunchurch station and link up at Potford Dam roundabout. There is a YouTube video just released by Sustrans showing the work done so far, and the overall aims of the cycle path between Leamington and Rugby. If you ask the question on that you hopefully will get a more detailed answer 😊👍
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I’m rolling with frost moon. Not that they have much of that in Bahrain!
Never heard it called that before. I wonder what the one in December will be called?
I have to correct myself. The last one was Moon before Yule. Usually that’s in December but the December moon is on 27th so that becomes moon after Yule. That’s how the Anglo-Saxons did it. If you follow a later calendar you have Cold Moon (or Oak Moon) for December. I’m sure that’s as clear as mud now 😉
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