Saturday 4th February 2012

A cold day with the prospect of snow understandably reduced the Volunteer contingent to a hardy group of eight. Nevertheless, a couple of key objectives were met and the troops were at least able to bask in the glow of some jobs well done!

We are mounting a final push on getting 1A completed and this will happen Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week  As precursor to that the lamp post ducting and water supply ducting needed to be installed. It looks a pretty neat job to me, thanks to John C and Steve B.

In the car park the home fires were burning and it was no effort for me to hover around the bonfires feeding them with the branches lopped by the chainsaw gang. It was the right place to be on such a cold day!

Dave fixes box number 10
and Yes someone is holding the ladder!

The Broadway Area Group are conscious that in clearing the undergrowth, wayward saplings and small trees we are depriving the local bird population of some of its nesting sites. As a group we have an inherent conservation ethos and this extends to stewardship of the areas of  land we are responsible for. To this end,  Volunteer Dave Bowie has taken time out to source and build a variety of nesting boxes - 10 in all and has mounted them in suitable places along the footpath in the car park.

We would like to increase the number of boxes and if you would like to sponsor a box then a donation of £9 (using the donation button) will buy and maintain a box.



Lastly, a few weeks ago, Jo took a clip of the troops hand cranking the dumper and the jubilation when it was successful. Jo spotted this YouTube clip (A King Tiger by the Tail) of similar, muted jubilation, but on a slightly grander scale! A bit like cranking Dot by hand!