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Six wildlife superheroes turned out today. Marcus, Reece, Ian, Dave, Martin, and Paul. The main aim being to keep the path width a decent 2 to 3 metres wide so that cyclists and walkers can share without ramming each other into the undergrowth, the wildlife can do its thing, and humans can do their thing without getting bitten by the critters in said undergrowth.

Until you get bitten and find that some critter has had a free lunch via the back of your leg, you probably don’t realise how irritating a bite will be for the next few days, made worse by you constantly itching the thing!!

And made doubly worse if you were minding your own business trying to enjoy a coffee and biscuit at one of our benches.

So that is why we are so obsessed with keeping the width like it is.

We strimmed back about 400 metres today, so good going. Here’s our YouTube just to give you a bit of a flavour of our progress.

We broke for our own coffee break at half-time.

It’s great to chat about stuff and have a bit of a laugh.

We also spent a bit of time removing more of the elder tree hangover.

It blocks out so much light and stops wildflowers and insects getting a full blast of warm sunlight. Obviously, we checked for any second-brood nests, but unlikely being this close to the path edge.

I fired up our “Beast from the East” in readiness for September…

We have some serious scrub clearance to do and we are planning now for it. This thing will eat through the scrub like a family of mountain goats.

We had two incredibly generous buy-me-a-coffee donations last week. Thank you Anne and Irene. It helps so much whether it be for bacon for a breakfast, or tools and equipment.

Please donate if you can. It all helps so much.

A bit of geekiness from me (sorry, it’s that time of the month again).

We had two new countries tuning in. Montenegro and Azerbaijan…

Still nothing from Svalbard and Estonia, despite following blogs and YouTubers from both places. Although someone from Norway has been looking over the last 30 days. I wonder if Svalbard is somehow connected to Norway via undersea cables?

Anyhow, that’s 133 countries that have tuned-in to read. Not quite world domination, but slowly getting there.

Iran is a rather irritating large white blob on the map so I need to find a friend there. Not sure if my friendship advances will be greeted with open arms at the moment though!!

Right, that’s enough geek, back to it…

As we move into summer everything that has been growing like mad, goes to seed and literally flops onto the path, which is another reason why we need the width.

This Friday we are on the Dunchurch bit, keeping the connection open so people can travel between Cawston and Dunchurch without having to go on the road.

Next week, being the first workday of the month, is bacon batch time. Time to roll out the camping stove and do our thing…

Thanks for reading.

until next time!

Paul