Tag Archives: mental health

Battling With The Floods

Posted on January 29, 2025 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

If you’re viewing through the WordPress Reader, try cawstongreenway.co.uk for a far better experience. A bit of a tough one for me this week. I’ve had really bad news, that I don’t really want to go into on here. The … Continue reading →

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A Chariots of Fire Moment

Posted on November 22, 2023 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

We’ve been sort of cruising along at about 120 metres per workday for weeks on end. Today it felt like the shackles fell away and we raced ahead covering 400 metres, and the next 400 metres looks after itself, so … Continue reading →

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Autumn Equinox

Posted on September 20, 2023 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

As we hurtle non-stop towards autumn, we can reflect back on the crazy summer of floods, followed by heat-waves, and then more floods and what we thought was going to be a rather pleasant Indian Summer. That was, of course, … Continue reading →

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This is Recycling

Posted on August 5, 2023 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

By now, you might have gleaned from the blog that we’re really into recycling. We are either a miserable bunch of tight-wads who don’t enjoy spending money, or we just have a really healthy repair-and-reuse ethic. In my case, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Newsreel | Tagged butterflies, cawston greenway, community, conservation, Kingons, mental health, Namibia, nature, new bench, recycling, reusing, revoloution, volunteer work, wildlife | 20 Comments

How to Add Biodiversity

Posted on June 21, 2023 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

Quite a few times we have felt like calling in the USAF to napalm the whole path and give us a blank canvas to start again and do it our way, however, we have to work with what we have … Continue reading →

Posted in Newsreel | Tagged butterflies, cawston greenway, Combat Isolation, Combat Loneliness, community, conservation, cycling, Green Time v. Screen Time, How To Make Friends, mental health, Mental Wellbeing, nature, outdoors, running, volunteer work, wildlife, Woodworking | 3 Comments

Finally moving on…

Posted on November 30, 2022 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

It feels like we’ve been stuck on this section for an eternity! Today we got to the point where we are able to move to the next section… We did a last brush cut of the cleared higher path and … Continue reading →

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Now you see why…

Posted on November 23, 2022 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

With the heavy and what seems like continual rain over the last few weeks, you can see why we clear off the higher ballast path… It gives people the option not to have to walk through the muddy puddles. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Newsreel | Tagged butterfly embankment, Cawston Greenway Nature Trail, Endangered Butterflies, glades, mental health, Mental Wellbeing, nature, wildflowers, woodland glade, woodland ride | 2 Comments

So Much To Unpack This Week

Posted on February 3, 2022 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

Grab a cuppa, I get the feeling this is gonna be a long one… We had our weekender on Sunday and thirteen of us made it. We litter-picked from Berrybanks to the bird feeder clearing and back again. It was … Continue reading →

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This is where the magic is made

Posted on October 7, 2021 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

Normally muggins here is too quick to get going so forgets to take before and after photos. Today I remembered. This is our biggest wildflower clearing and we need to get rid of all the plants now that the seeds … Continue reading →

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All About the Violet

Posted on February 20, 2020 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

We used to have loads of Common Dog Violets in this area. Unfortunately, we have let the ivy get out of control and it has stopped just about everything else growing. It’s a lot harder to get the stuff up … Continue reading →