Tag Archives: outdoors
Today We Became Civil Engineers
We hung up our wildlife warrior capes and donned our hard hats whilst putting our collective minds together to solve our continual flooding issue. Reece, Ian, Matt, Martin, Dave, and Paul turned out with our mattocks and shovels and boy-o-boy … Continue reading
A Wet Start To 2025
It was a bit of a soggy one today, both with the rain, and the huge amount of standing water underfoot. But five of us turned out (Ian, Dave, Tim, Steve, and Paul) despite the rotten weather. We desperately need … Continue reading
Six Mile (10K) Circular Walk
I feel that we are ready to put up this six-mile walk. There are loads of ways to track back for much shorter loops, or go further into Dunchurch, but this is the basic backbone of the walk. It starts … Continue reading
Bacon in the Woods
We have a new country tuning in – it’s been a while!! Welcome Barbados… It’s so nice when this happens. I don’t know how people find the blog but it does go out on quite a few platforms and stuff. … Continue reading
Scallop Management
I have been banging on about “scallops” for ages now. I revisited my woodland management guides and when they talk about scallops along a path edge, they are talking about 50 metres in length and 15 metres deep. I think … Continue reading
Jaguar Land Rover Day
We had another team from the world-famous Jaguar Land Rover this week. Their task was to clear the scrub between the underpass and Berrybanks. It was, unfortunately, a bit of a wet day, but they cracked on regardless. They installed … Continue reading
Scallops and Stuff
Six of us wildlife warriors met up today and pushed on with the path on the slightly higher ground, ready for when the main path becomes a mudbath in winter, and we also continued to scallop the path edges. The … Continue reading
A Surprise But Very Welcome Visit
Six of us wildlife warriors made it today so we were able to split up a bit with four going northwards and me and Steve going southwards. We had got towards the end of our run when I noticed this … Continue reading
A Bench With A View…
A bit of an odd one today where we kinda went sideways, as well as lengthways, along the path. Our first job was to give the Brook View bench an actual view of the brook. It’s quite hard to make … Continue reading
Thank You, George.
This week is the last week of the school summer holidays and also the last week that George is with us for his six-month Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award. It’s been great having you on the team, George, and your … Continue reading
