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Wednesday 4th May 10 - 12 Snowdrop bench working south snipping back bramble runners, releasing mature trees from scrub and litter picking.
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Wednesday 11th May 10 - 12 Pick up where we left off last week and carry on.
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Wednesday 18th May 10 - 12 Picnic bench maintenance.
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Wednesday 25th May 10 - 12 Picnic bench maintenance - refurbished bench and pair of benches. (Screwdrivers, drill, screws, brackets and bits of wood).
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Sunday 29th May 10 - 12 Family Weekender and Duke of Edinburgh vol hours. Bridleway clearing litter pick.
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Tag Archives: mental health
So Much To Unpack This Week
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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Tagged butterflies, cawston greenway, community, conservation, cycling, glades, mental health, nature, outdoors, Picnics, running, volunteer work, wildflowers, wildlife, woodland ride
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This is where the magic is made
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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Tagged butterflies, cawston greenway, community, conservation, cycling, mental health, nature, outdoors, running, volunteer work, wildflowers, wildlife
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All About the Violet
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
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Tagged coffee and cookies, Common Dog Violet, community, cycling, friendship, fun, mental health, Mountain-biking, nature, NCN 41, rambling, running, volunteering
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It feels like, another workday – another bench…
The aim is to get a bench in every 500 meters or so. It just gives people the chance to sit down and enjoy the surroundings. The benches are designed to be quite short because we don’t want groups of … Continue reading
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Tagged benches, community, cycling, friendship, fun, hobbies, mental health, Mountain-biking, nature, photography, rambling, running
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More Benches
What a day!! Humping 20kg bags of postfix down a slippy and muddy path is no fun… But Marcus, Reece and myself persevered to make a new bench area around a small pond. We are putting them in too deep, … Continue reading
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Tagged benches, birds, coffee, community, cycling, Enjoy the birdsong, friendship, fun, hobbies, mental health, mince pies, Mountain-biking, nature, outdoors, photography, pond, rambling, running, trail, volunteering, wildlife
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Putting our mark on the Earth
Well, we did that alright. To plant a tree for the next generation or two to enjoy, is a good thing. Kerrie, David, Marcus and Paul planted about 55 tree saplings. It is pretty cool to think about how we … Continue reading
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Tagged c, community, cycling, friendship, fun, hobbies, mental health, Mountain-biking, nature, photography, rambling, running, tree planting
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Taking Green to the Extreme!
We have been keeping this path clear, open and as a nice nature-walk for about ten years now. We have had a lot of people pass through, joining work parties for a few weeks, a few months, a few years, … Continue reading
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Tagged bluebell, community, cycling, friendship, fun, mental health, Mountain-biking, nature, nature reserve, nature trail, photography, rambling, running, scrub clearance
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A Long Walk….
I had a job on in Woodlands, close to Sainsbury’s, on Wednesday morning so I gave myself a good 25 minutes to walk from that to the greenway – 45 minutes later I got there, totally knackered – and no … Continue reading
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Tagged benches, blokes, clearing, crowdfunding, helping others, mental health, mental well being, newts, path, picnic benches, sustrans, wildflowers
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Basecamp Operational
With the forecast rain, I thought it would be a good idea to put up some cover. Thankfully Marcus and Aaron came along to assist. As it happened, the monsoon held off until the afternoon! It’s always good fun to … Continue reading
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Tagged basecamp, community, cycling, friendship, fun, fungi, mental health, Mountain-biking, nature, photography, rambling, running, Saturday Morning
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New Month – New Mission
Aaron, Marcus, Reece, Dave and myself got back to basics this week at the bird-feeder clearing. We cleared out all the encroaching scrub and plants that had gone over from the summer. We’re a bit late in the year to … Continue reading
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Tagged coffee, community, conservation, cookies, cycling, friendship, hobbies, mental health, Mountain-biking, nature, outdoors, photography, rambling, Rugby, running, squirrels, summer, trail, volunteering, walking, wildlife
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