If you’re viewing through the WordPress reader, please give us a go by clicking on www.cawstongreenway.co.uk so all of the slideshows work properly.

Seven of us turned out today, and we decided that we wanted to be plumbers.

After looking at the problem, Marcus and Ian quickly decided that maybe plumbing wasn’t their game after all, and headed off southwards, quickly followed by Martin and Paul, who quickly headed off northwards. This left Reece, Dave and George to wrestle with the water, which really is like trying to herd cats.

We have a damp bit, and it’s just a bit irritating for walkers, so we did our usual trick of trying to pipe the water under a sort of bridge.

Well played, Reece, Dave and George. We could hear the huffing and puffing from quite a distance. Hopefully, it will dry out and everyone will be happy.

Something for my fellow geeks…

I haven’t really been following where the blog’s viewers are coming from because WordPress changed the World map to a wishy-washy colour, which just looked rubbish.

However, they have turned up the contrast and made it look all pretty again. If it’s blue, they have looked at us…

There are two places that, for well over a year or so, I have been trying to engage and give us a view. Svalbard and Estonia. Despite following various blogs and YouTubers from both places, no bites yet.

Nice to see that someone from Armenia has popped in over the last 30 days. I had to look it up on a map. East of Turkey and south of Georgia, west of that big white blob in the middle around the Caspian Sea that is Iran and a lot of the ‘stans, although we have had Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan tuning in 251 times between them.

Having read a little Armenian history, I really wish that I hadn’t.

On a lighter note, we have now had a total of 131 countries tuning in, which warms my geeky little heart a bit.

Right, that’s the geeky bit over with, let’s get back to it…

We had a strimmer fail on us last week, and by hook or by crook, I managed to get a refund and use that money to buy the same model that was being heavily discounted, so much so that I bought two.

We now have five strimmers, three hedge trimmers, one pole saw and 18 battery packs. We also have a petrol brush cutter for heavy work in the autumn.

This paid dividends today with about 600 metres strimmed back.

It just keeps it nice and open with a width that means walkers and cyclists can share without pushing each other into the undergrowth. And I personally like to be able to see what is ahead of me when walking. I don’t want Fungus the Bogeyman jumping out at me and giving me the collywobbles…

We broke for our usual coffee and had a rather nice surprise. Andrew and Liz, who have made loads of bird-boxes and super-strong benches, made us some delicious cakes.

It’s days like today, where everyone is being so generous and nice, that make you think, “yeah, the World ain’t such a bad place after all”.

And talking of being generous, we have decided to give the naughty squirrels one last chance under the Bear Pub bridge.

This is the last chance. If this gets wrecked like the last seating that we made out of pallets, then that will be it. This is a place to get away from adults, but not get too far out to be isolated. If it works, we can do the same under other bridges.

Please don’t spoil it for yourselves.

I think that’s about it. We are back on the Dunchurch trail on Friday, and back up the Potford Dam end next week. Please come along if you want to join in, or just want to share a cuppa and a chat. I’m the most introverted and geeky person out there, and I spend most of my life avoiding people and situations. If you feel the same, you will fit in perfectly.

Until next time!

Paul