In the absence of ‘C’,
this from the day’s session leader:
Turn up for Green Gym on a cloudy morning in rural Oxfordshire, and you never know what you may find.
This, for example, which had been lost during a "granny pond-dipping session" a fortnight earlier:
The task was actually clearing the overgrown cresson (to those living in the Dordogne) - watercress channels to the rest of us:
This, for example, which had been lost during a "granny pond-dipping session" a fortnight earlier:
The task was actually clearing the overgrown cresson (to those living in the Dordogne) - watercress channels to the rest of us:
Different methods of collecting were employed: dragging with
the drag fork; or carrying on a fork.
Either way, collected vegetation was moved to a large pile, for the team
of people laboriously taking wheelbarrows to the ever growing compost heap.
We also made a clearing under the bird seed feeders. So that hungry ducks can enjoy any carelessly
dropped food once the warden starts loading the feeders.
After delicious cake at coffee break [Ed: courtesy of a well-known retailer?] ...
we had it on good authority that there had been a sighting of a Great White – or was it a Porbeagle!
we had it on good authority that there had been a sighting of a Great White – or was it a Porbeagle!
An unwelcome non-native visitor was a North American
Crayfish, which was removed from the water:
As always by the end of the session you could see where we'd
been.
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