Battling With The Floods

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A bit of a tough one for me this week. I’ve had really bad news, that I don’t really want to go into on here. The good thing is that I’ve had the group to drag me out and stop me wallowing in my thoughts alone. It’s that mental health element of doing what we do.

Thanks guys.

If you’re feeling alone, or just need that human contact, do something about it. Please don’t struggle through life thinking that nobody cares about you.

Today was Martin’s birthday and we had a unicorn cake. It was very tasty indeed.

Stupidly I didn’t attach the lid to the flask properly and about half of the coffee leaked out all over my car on the way to the workday. Good job I like the aroma. So it felt like half measures, but there was just enough.

Happy Birthday, Martin!

No actual unicorns were harmed in the making of this blog.

The storm came and went and somehow the rainwater found its way back down the path. Seven of us (Reece, Steve, Martin, Dave, Marcus, Ian, and Paul) turned out to try to do a Mosses and get the water to do what we wanted.

We increased the size of the dam and the bottom holding pond, and pushed the path wider so that there is a higher area to walk on when it does flood. Reece got the flow working a lot better from the top pond.

We’re going to put a little bench here so people can sit and enjoy the sound of the flowing water and enjoy the pond when it all greens up.

We have Brooklime already sprouting in the muddy banks.

This is pretty rampant so should cover the mud really quickly in the spring.

Our YouTube of the pond.

It all looks like a forlorn mess at the moment but I can see it looking good in the spring and summer.

I also litter-picked up and down the northern end.

Dunchurch Bridleway

We finally got the new benches in, set at 90 degrees to each other to encourage conversations, but not be too intense, like they would be if parallel.