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Sunny But Cold Workday
John, Mick and myself today and we pushed on southwards. John worked on the bank and Mick used the brush-cutter down in the Bird-box clearing. Looking back towards the bridge. This area is going to be so hot in the … Continue reading
Us Four v. Storm Imogen
Well what a workday!! John, Aaron, Mick and myself battled against Storm Imogen to get the job done. And boy, did we get that job done! This is the south side of the bridge, you can see that we are … Continue reading
Log Piles and Dead Hedges
Today Mick, John and myself made it. We decided to not burn everything and instead, build a few piles of logs and brash, and also add to the hedging at the top of the clearing. We burnt off the really … Continue reading
Now that is a clearing!!
Lovely workday today with Aaron, John, Mick and myself getting stuck in. We cleared back the Picnic Clearing northwards until we were out of the cutting and on flat ground. You can see how wide we have made the path. … Continue reading
New Path
We have talked about it for so long and I think the total mud-bath that the path has become forced our hand somewhat. We brush-cut a new path on the slightly higher ridge of ballast that runs alongside the old … Continue reading
Weekender
Brilliant turnout today with about twelve of us meeting up in the Picnic Cutting to burn off the piles of brash, that we had stored under the bridge to dry it out. I got the fire going very quickly and … Continue reading
My Favourite Bit of the Greenway
The Picnic Clearing is my most favoured part of the greenway. I have fond memories of Edmund here and love to see the daffodils come up in the spring, that I planted in memory of him. Today we had an … Continue reading
Pushing on…
Myself, Aaron, Chris and Mike who was with us for the first time, and thoroughly enjoyed himself, today. Aaron brush-cut the path from the picnic clearing, down to the southern end and back. The rest of us were in the … Continue reading
Wet One!
Me and Chris today and a bit of a wet workday today so we packed in an hour early, just as the sun decided to come out!! Quite useful to have so much rain-fall over the last few days though. … 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
