Category Archives: Newsreel
Visit from Sustrans
Ed, Bernie and Lisa from Sustrans, the charity that looks after the greenway, joined us today, along with Mike from Butterfly Conservation. They seemed quite happy with our work and agreed to help create a habitat for Small Blue butterflies … Continue reading
Man v. Nettles
Phil and myself today and we tackled a couple of tree branches that had come down over the last week of windy weather, and the dreaded nettles. We used the ‘weed whip’ and cleared a lot of nettles back off … Continue reading
It’s Working!
Three of us on the greenway today. A general tidy and litter-pick on the section between the new underpass and the picnic clearing. Surprisingly there was not a lot of litter at all. Thank-you everyone who has made a conscious … Continue reading
Battling With Stinging Nettles
Whoever suggested doing this? Boy, do those stingers know how to fight back! Somehow they found their way up my arms and down my gloves, leaving me tingly at best and itchy at worst, for the rest of the day. … Continue reading
Drama!!!
We started burning off the very damp brash that was left over from last week. Just me and Chris today, until we were joined by the Warwickshire Fire Department. But there was little to worry about. I have been doing … Continue reading
Careful Cutting
Four of us today and we carefully pushed back the bramble on the banks of the new clearing. We checked to make sure that there were no nesting birds, and then slowly cleared back the scrub. You can see from … Continue reading
New Clearing Area Identified
It started off a bit cool on the greenway today, but as the sun burnt away the cloud, it soon warmed up. Four of us today and we met at the gate with a view, and pushed on towards the … Continue reading
Litter Pick and Trim
Lovely morning on the greenway. We worked on the area where the gate looks over the countryside to the west, down to the picnic clearing. Basically, all we can do in the bird nesting season is litter pick and keep … Continue reading
Smokin’ Workday
Well what a day! Five of us in the end and we really managed to have a good old tidy up and burn off the piles of brash. The day started foggy and damp, and I really thought that I … Continue reading
Very Lucky or Very Unlucky….
Today I was brush cutting my way through the last clearing, when the cutting blade shot off the brushcutter!! It was quite a shock to see the blade flying across the path and I don’t quite know how it happened, … Continue reading
