Author Archives: Paul - Cawston Greenway

Great workday today with good progress. You might of received a blog notification email telling you about the dates for the next few weeks. I have changed it so that there is a ‘Workday Dates’ tab on the brown navigation … Continue reading →

Wow!! What a great workday. We pushed on with the path widening working from the first picnic clearing upwards towards the entrance. It is hard and slow work but soon enough we will be out of cutting and on to … Continue reading →

Good midweek workday today and we pushed on with the path widening between the two large clearings. It is worth bearing in mind that we need to create as many scallops along the path as possible. These will be warmer … Continue reading →

Really good day with ten or so of us turning out and we really pushed on with the path widening between the two clearings. We are switching from either side of the original path so that we create a snaking … Continue reading →

Great workday today and we had some unexpected visitors in the form of two big firemen. Someone had seen the smoke from our bonfire and thought that we were burning the greenway down. We have had a fire almost every … Continue reading →

Good but hard day on the greenway today, brush cutting all the growth from the stumps and bramble that has completely covered areas that we cleared last season. We need to think hard about what we are going to do … Continue reading →

Really chilled out day on the greenway today. Mike showed us how to lay a hedge and it is starting to look really good. There is still loads to do to create a boundary but we made good progress. The … Continue reading →

Nice and gentle workday today with a bit of tidying and clearing of brash in the clearing under the bridge that was once called the picnic clearing. However, without our picnic bench, I think we may just call it the … Continue reading →

So much to talk about but really want to keep the blogs short and to the point… Firstly, someone had stolen one of our picnic benches. Why or how is beyond me. They weigh a ton and are totally utilitarian. … Continue reading →

Great turn out today with about eight or so of us meeting up. However, marking the trees was not such a great idea because it’s sort of obvious which ones need to come out. We found the source of the … Continue reading →