Saturday 29 May 2010

Birthday Party on Sunday 6th June

Sunday 6th June is the 7th anniversary of the opening of the Visitors' Centre @ Bedfords Park. Please come along and join in the celebrations. There will be live music, craft stalls, childrens' activities, and much more. This is a free event but donations are welcome. Let's hope for some more of that sunny weather we had recently. We did, didn't we, or was I dreaming ?

June work day

Our next work day is on Sunday June 13th @ Bedfords Park Visitors' Centre. 10 am start as usual.

Hope to see you there.

Tuesday 11 May 2010

Work Party Sunday 9th May 2010 - report




The dipping platform before ....................








And after






We had our first task determined for us by nature as a large hawthorn tree had 'fallen over' a week before onto part of the dipping platform. Fortunately no pond dipping was planned. we removed as little as we needed to enable access to the platform once again. The tree was still alive so it should carry on growing even though it is on it's side .The 'prunings' were used to reinforce the 'dead hedge' by the bridleway.

Our second task was to clear the ditch along the bridleway. It had become clogged up with dead leaves, branches and rocks/bricks. This was the sort of work we like - getting wet and muddy, and in this case, smelly as well. In addition one of our team carried on with our last month's task of removing saplings from the meadow.




Men at work ....................







and, men at play - if their kids did this they'd get a telling off !