Category Archives: Newsreel
Smokin’…
Arrrgh!!!! So much to share… We cleared the brash left from yesterday and sorry to all the residents on the Coventry Road. We did have a really smoking fire and the high wind took it straight over the fields to … Continue reading
Fire Brigade came to visit Cawston Greenway…. again!
Well we had it all today, howling gale, sheeting rain, bramble that was so obnoxious and rude, ripped gloves, pricked hands, a bonfire that wouldn’t start, and when it finally did, someone called the Fire Brigade!!!! It’s just a bit … Continue reading
Come and Join In!!!!
So happy with the greenway. Had nearly 5,500 views on the blog since we started and seem to have quite a following. Please, please, please, if you are watching our progress on the blog or facebook/twitter and would like to … Continue reading
Another 65 meters done on Cawston Greenway
We pushed on and got another 65 meters down the path. It was a really hard slog with some horribly thick bramble and prickly Blackthorn trees, but we cracked on and made our target. The good news is that we … Continue reading
A Few Meters More……
Nice start to the day today. I got there at about 9:45 and saw a couple of squirrels playing on the path. There were also loads of birds in full song and it felt good. The wider the path is, … Continue reading
0.04 of a mile = 65 meters on Cawston Greenway
Right then, where to start!! This is the first time that we have set ourselves a goal on the greenway and happily we achieved it. Basically at the point where we finished on the last workday, to the point that … Continue reading
Post Christmas blow-out on Cawston Greenway
A few of us made it today and had a good old Christmas-calorie-burning session. The Blackthorn trees that we released didn’t quite work out in the same way that the Hawthorn trees did, but we can see how they develop … Continue reading
Snowy start to a great Christmas workday in Cawston
I have to say that I am rather pleased with today’s workday. As I trudged from my home at 9:50am it was snowing and cold and I thought that I was going to be on my own today. However, I … Continue reading
Hedge-Laying on Cawston Greenway
Busy afternoon on the greenway with six or so of us making it and we did a bit more hedge-laying in the bird-box clearing (the one with the bench and bird-boxes that young Paul put up last year). Mike was … Continue reading
Hawthorn Clearing
Great workday yesterday and good to see that about six or seven of us made it. We started pushing back the path northbound from where we last left off and discovered a group of struggling young Hawthorn trees, that were … Continue reading
