Tag Archives: running
Week One of the School Holidays
A gentle workday today with just a litter pick and snipping back bramble, from Potford Dam to the Cawston Bridleway clearing, which is about half a mile. Mike also snipped back nettles at Berrybanks. A lot of the fast growing … Continue reading
Small Step Backwards for a Huge Step Forwards
There is something that has not been sitting well with me for a while now. Whilst I think we are 99% on the right track, there is something that I eluded to a couple of weeks ago. We seem to … Continue reading
What a Crazy Few Months!!
You would think that with 13 years of doing this, we would sort of know what we are doing… But we are forever getting curveballs thrown at us and the ‘plan’ has to be totally fluid to cope with all … Continue reading
Flip-Flop
I am not normally one to dither and hesitate, but today I found myself flip-flopping about what we are doing. Three things were on my mind – something that Michael Drummond from Warwickshire Wildlife Trust said some 13 years ago … Continue reading
Catching Up!!
Please click on the Dino Trail tab above and see the amazing work that Sophie C has done to earn her Duke of Edinburgh award. I am very impressed. The picnic benches are all re-stained and had the weak points … Continue reading
Bench Rescue
Such fun dragging the benches back up onto the path… It gives us the chance to suss out the weak points and reinforce and re-stain. The wildflower meadow was planted in autumn rather than spring. Not sure if this is … Continue reading
More Bench Work Today
But before we get into benches, look at the Dino Trail – Sophie C has created new maps and there are other bits that I just need to format to get on there – it looks really good. This is … Continue reading
Urgh!!! Cock up with where we were starting!!
Me and Marcus had in our minds that we were starting at the most northerly bench and working south. We did this and restained 12 benches. Mike and Reece didn’t have the same. I must make my communication clearer in … Continue reading
Back on that huge learning curve!!!
We learnt this last couple of weeks that out-of-the-way benches and other nice things like food for the birds, nesting boxes, bug hotels, etc, etc, just don’t mix. Wooden benches can be repaired, and bird feeders can be replaced. That … Continue reading
This Makes It All Worth While…
Nearly every nesting box has chicks!! So we learnt that when people walk down the path the birds do not advertise their nests. I honestly thought that they had all been abandoned and that maybe the path was just too … Continue reading
