We had a solar eclipse this week. That’s when the moon blocks out the sun and it feels like all of Nostradamus’s prophecies are being rained down on us in one terrifyingly frightful moment.
Everything pauses. Birds stop chirping, sheep and cattle stand in their fields in bewildered silence, humans look at each other with fear in their eyes as they realise that this is what will happen when the sun finally stops burning brightly in the sky.
And on that cheery note, we carried on with our wiggly path. Good news, our strimmers have multiplied, and so have our battery packs.
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So on we cracked and the wiggle is starting to take shape. Because we are starting at the get-go, we are not letting any wildlife set up habitat on the path bit. There is plenty of vegetation, nectar sources and other stuff that will make terrific habitat in the margins, so don’t panic.
This time next month the edges will have grown and the path will be really defined.
We also worked with George who is doing his Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award, and stained benches up to the underpass, so that’s the bulk of them sorted.
Of course, it started raining shortly afterwards, but being a water-based stain it should be OK.
We also noticed wildflowers starting to pop up.
A sign that gives us a good feeling that we are on the right track.
And lastly, our YouTube of where we were working today.
The Dunchurch Bridleway is open again so I will be prodding about and working out how we reconnect this path to it.
We also have some exciting news to share next week – watch this space.
Until then!
Paul
Cawston Greenway 
The path and wood are looking good! 👍🏻
Thanks. I feel like we made good progress this week 😀
You guys did, I can tell from 3000 miles away! 😂 I hope you are getting a break from the rain, I follow two other UK blogs and they say the same thing – stop the rain!
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I love that I feel as though I have been there. Well done.
Thank you 😀
Oh wow!! Thank you 😀
The path has been freed; now it’s time for guests to visit the beautiful surroundings.
It is slowly drying out 😀
Loved the YouTube video! Thanks for sharing this beautiful are on the blog. You guys are doing amazing work.
Ah, thank you. So looking forward to May when it goes totally bonkers 😀
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I love watching your progress, seeing your spring flowers, and hearing your birdsong. It looks and sounds great.
Thanks, I feel that we are going to have a good year 😀
I hope so for you.
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Here in Vermont we experienced the eclipse as well…….the skies slowly darkening until suddenly the sun went out for about 3 minutes during “totality”. It was surprising how quickly things brightened up after the moon got out of the way.
That was week ago, and it has rained every day since. Cheers!
Oh wow!! What an experience!! And don’t mention the rain!!!! 😀