We’re once again caught in the middle of a massive heatwave.

To be fair, the mornings are pretty OK, but by the time the afternoon ticks around, it’s muggy and close, and everyone is getting tetchy.

For anyone thinking, paah, that’s nothing, for us here in England, it is hot!

Six sun worshippers turned out for our usual path edge strim. Martin, Ian, Marcus, Andrew, Ram, and Paul.

We covered about 700 metres, which is pretty good going. The greenway is divided into five sections, with each being about 700 metres in length, so this means everything gets pegged back before it starts to invade the path space.

We broke for chilled water and Oreo biscuits at half-time. The views from here are superb, both up and down the path, and to the sides. Lots of lovely dappled sunlight hitting the ground.

There was not a chance that I was going to start dishing out hot coffee in this heat.

We worked hard to keep the entry points open, and also maintain the width so people can walk two-abreast. Judging by the number of people coming past, this concept is working well.

Our wildflower patch north of the underpass is alive and buzzing with insects.

This is quite fortunate because we didn’t really clear it off at the end of last year. We must do it this year, or it will become scrubby and not good.

We also did our usual trick with the sprouts on our tree trunks.

If we leave them, the trees will end up looking like this.

Personally, I don’t like this look at all.

We have a picnic bench that needs new seating and a table top.

The wood is 177 cm long, 7.4 cm wide, and 3.0 cm thick. A nice little project to price up and make happen in a few month’s time.

We have had the numbers made for our mile marker posts, thanks to Ian’s son, David.

This is another project that is slowly inching towards completion.

I attempted to stain a few of the benches, and try as I might…

…I still ended up looking like spotted dick!

The white T-shirt and shorts were probably not the best items to wear!

We finished with a litter-pick.

And called it a day just as it was starting to get really hot.

Popehill Spinney:

The path that runs through Popehill Spinney and connects with the National Cycle Network Route 41 is now open and passable.

It needs a bit of work in a couple of places to divert standing water, but someone is working hard to sort this out.

If we can get permission to work down there, then we are more than willing to help in any way that we can.

It’s all good stuff and done for the greater good.

Next one is on the Dunchurch Bridleway, working on the most westerly section, and then next Wednesday is our big reveal!!

It’s gonna be epic!!

Thanks for reading if you got this far.

Until next time!

Paul