FRIENDS |
I shall miss all my friends that I have made on thursdays. They are a great bunch of people. I wish to thank all of you for the card congratulting me on obtaining employment and those that j...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:48:00 GMT |
CLOUTS WOOD |
We assembled in the layby near clouts wood with a task in mind to repair the bridge over the stream. this is a short walk to the edge of the wood. We were then told that the materials for the task ha...
Posted by on Sat, 19 May 2007 21:39:00 GMT |
Gleaming Minibuses and Planting Plugs |
We were at Lower Moor Farm this week plug planting and then go on a walk around Lower Moor Farm, Clattinger farm and Swillbrook reserves. The day started with me collecting the minibus from Devi...
Posted by on Tue, 01 May 2007 11:57:00 GMT |
Water Voles and Latrines |
This week we were trained in the art of carrying out a WaterVole survey. The training was on the disused canal at Rushy Platt where there are a good population of Water Voles...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:52:00 GMT |
BIRDS & SCARECROWS |
We went in the mini bus via the tool store to the farm again only this time the sun did manage to shine. We carried our various tasks scrub bashing, ground prep, birdbox making, birdtable making &...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:09:00 GMT |
Wot ya doing Mister |
We were working at another school this week building some compost bins out of old pallets, putting down a path around a pond and putting in some posts as a feature around what will be a wildflower mea...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:47:00 GMT |
PUDDLING |
We met up at abbeymeads school to carry out the task of raising the level of the wild life ponds. We dug out the pipe that fed the middle pond to the lower one. This unearthed numerous frogs that prov...
Posted by on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:42:00 GMT |
DISGRUNTLED VOLENTEER |
We came prepared to cut down trees etc. at swillbrook. Although it was raining we went in the minibus in steelcapped boots. We travelled the long way out to gloucestershire duly reached swillbrook and...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:11:00 GMT |
RIVERMEAD AND CAKE |
The day started right when Mikes home made fruit cake was distributed to all volenteers prersent. No one was poisoned and work comenced all the trees marked were felled then at tea break custard cream...
Posted by on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:22:00 GMT |
2006 and all that |
Its that time of year for reflecting on what's gone on during 2006. Our numbers have grown from an average of 4-5 volunteers at the beginning of the year to an average of 8-10 volunteers at the end of...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:33:00 GMT |
