We hosted a group from Jaguar Land Rover this week. They very kindly installed a new picnic bench in a clearing with super views.
A great day was had and the JLR team also picked up two bags of litter.
I did suggest that if they had a spare Land Rover knocking about, then we would be very happy to look after it. After explaining how we are really enthusiastic about them and would be hugely grateful even with an older model.
However, I think I might have put slightly too much emphasis on the word “model”…
A fantastic day and the bench will be hugely popular with that view. Thanks guys. We really appreciate your generosity.
In other news, we got the rest of the little benches stained on Monday.
And then we met today at Trigger’s Bench and carried on northwards with the shaping of the path edge.
This really is the width that we want to maintain over the summer. Normally the path gets really narrow and tight, and it becomes quite uncomfortable brushing past stinging nettles and bramble all the time. It also means people have to walk in single-file which makes conversations difficult. The nettles also droop into the path when it rains or towards the end of the summer, so we really need to avoid this happening.
Here is our YouTube of our progress today.
We covered about 400 metres last week and the same this week. Some parts of the path are naturally wide and will not need any work, so I am hoping we have enough time to really keep on top of it.
My thoughts are that we get up to the recycled bench next week and then jump forward to the underpass. The underpass to Berrybanks/The Bear needs to be kept wide. The rest sort of looks after itself. So that’s about 1,500 metres out of the whole 3 km that we need to keep down. Hmm… It’s going to be a challenge.
Next week we meet at the recycled picnic bench and work backwards to where we got to today. We also need to put the Cawston Guides bench back in, after a scurry of naughty squirrels had too much fighting juice and decided to wrestle it out of the ground!
Whilst the bench is back in the workshop it does give me the chance to stencil “Cawston Guides” on to it. Something which I have been meaning to do for ages.
Well that’s about it for this week. Thanks again to JLR, and onwards we go next week!
Paul
Cawston Greenway 
Well, you got your model! 😂 Is there a way to bring in several tons of gravel to dump into the muddy potholes? That would really help people. 👍🏻😊
Haha!!! It is drying out very quickly so we should be good by next week 🙂
That’s great and saves a ton of money. 😂
It’s starting to look a little bit more like spring at last.
Yeah, March and April are normally a bit wet. It’s the rainfall in the previous four months that has messed things up 😀
Loads of progress-well done, Paul and his merry band of worker bees. And kudos to JLR for their assistance. Nice touch with the model. 😉
Yes, it is starting to shape up a bit now. It’s almost dry underfoot, too 😀
Oh dear, I now notice a typo-not sure if I did it or if autocorrect hijacked my comment. It should have read Jaguar Range Rover, not JLR. So sorry about that.
No, I corrected it. Jaguar Land Rover, I would hope that when I make a typo someone would correct it for me, seeing as you cannot do it yourself 😀
Bless you.-much appreciated The last update to both the WordPress mobile app and my cell phone seem to be particularly cantankerous on comments. First world problems, eh? 😉 Thanks again.
The beauty of nature is truly captivating, especially when we listen to the melodious songs of birds.
It is indeed 😀
Keep up the good work pal ✨
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I really appreciated the clever way you played with the term “model,” because that’s exactly what it turned out to be. I shared with my wife my dream of owning a train. When she inquired about the specific model I desired, I told her any model would do as long as it was a CSX. To my delight, she gifted me a G-scale model train. While I originally had my heart set on the real deal, her thoughtful gesture has definitely won me over. I’ll be keeping both the train and, most importantly, her. 🙂
Haha, yes, I do like it when an idea in my head actually works when I write it down 😀