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About Paul - Cawston Greenway

Just trying to create a slice of wildlife and a place for people to chill out and meet new friends in this crazy world that we live in.

First Workday of 2017

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

Great workday today. Aaron, John and myself and we cleared a lot of ash saplings in the picnic clearing. Just loads of saplings shooting up. We cut them back and created a habitat pile rather than starting a bonfire and … Continue reading →

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Woodland Ride!!

Posted on December 11, 2016 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

Today we managed to do what I have been trying to achieve for the last seven years. We created a section that really felt like a woodland ride. Great turn out with Mick, Wayne, Anna, Carrina, Howard, Arron and myself … Continue reading →

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Message From Sustrans

Posted on December 6, 2016 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

Dear Friends of Cawston Greenway, We have Organising a Task Day training running this Wednesday, 7th December. The training day is part theory and part going outside and putting it into practice. This training has been organised to prepare the … Continue reading →

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Sustrans Training Day – Wed 7th December.

Posted on December 3, 2016 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

We have an exciting diary date: Wednesday 7th December the guys from Sustrans are coming down to work with us. The day will begin with a bit of a classroom session at Cawston Community Hall, teaching us new skills and … Continue reading →

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It was so cold today….

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

……that my drink froze in its water-bottle!! But that did not deter Reece, Marcus, John and me. We started a fire and boy-o-boy did it labour for the first half hour, but eventually the brash started to dry out and … Continue reading →

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New Bluebell Glade

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

Great day today with five of us turning out, which is pretty good for a weekday. Well done Mick, Carrina, Reece, Marcus and myself. We have been gifted a couple of bags of English bluebell bulbs, so Marcus, Carrina and … Continue reading →

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Bird-box Clearing

Posted on November 16, 2016 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

Good old workday today with Carrina, Reece, Marcus and myself ripping the scrub out. We have a load of brash to burn off next week. There is simply no room to make habitat piles. Ideally I would like to remove … Continue reading →

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What a stinker!!

Posted on November 13, 2016 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

Eight of us made it today and we started to try and dig channels from the path to the edge, where it drops away, in an attempt to drain all the standing, stagnant, stinky water. It was going nowhere, so … Continue reading →

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Fungi Fun

Posted on November 12, 2016 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

Here we will attempt to list the fabulous fungi that we are finding.

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Scrub Clearance

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

Good day today with Aaron, Reece and myself chopping a load of this scrub out. We thought it would be a nice feature in the summer, last season, and tried to create a path around the back of it. However, … Continue reading →

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