Reportage by the session leader and other
photographers:
Numerous
‘small’ jobs today instead of one big one. Centre of operations was the area overlooking
the famous pond site – ‘famous’ because it was entirely renovated by us in our
biggest project to date.
First job
was to set up a new bench for the public to rest on. Premade,
it was massive to lift to where it was to live:
The legs
were very long, but like an iceberg, would be largely out of sight. Two-thirds of the legs were to be buried below ground.
Naturally, that meant
digging two very deep holes. Not easy with
such stony ground and remains of old stumps to extract:
By tea-break the new furniture was in place. The test-driver
announced it was “perfect”:
The chief
hole-digger was also able to take a rest, this time on the nearby conveniently
shaped tree, the warden’s favourite:
The next task
at that location: to protect a tree from itchy cows, who thought it ideal for
scratching their backs. Rather over-long
fence posts were positioned around the tree …
then dug and
thumped into place at an elegant angle.
The top cross bars were then screwed on to the posts, and the ends
trimmed:
More cross
bars and barbed wire are still to be added.
That’s a task for the next group of volunteers who’ll be working at the
site.
Meanwhile,
another team of Green-Gymmers had been taking a stroll around most of Castle
Meadows to set up an electric fence in this area, out of bounds to the cows:
That was not
much exercise, so they had to collect a pile of logs …
and load
them onto the trailer …
only to
offload them elsewhere and turn them into a demonstration log-pile for the
family wildlife day on site tomorrow:
Finally,
another area was strimmed by the warden, with power tool. The cuttings had to be raked up into neat
piles, with trad hand tools:
With all
these tasks we had little time to admire the Meadows in full flush of spring
flowers.
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