Today six volunteers gathered at the tool store and set to cleaning out the store, cleaning, oiling and where appropriate sharpening tools including replacing all the well used bow saw blades. Fortunately the work was finished just as the rain came on.
As for me I swept the store floor carefully maneuvering between the tool rack sections.
Until reminded the whole rack could be moved out of the way to give a clean sweep. Some people are so sharp they will cut themselves.
Today six volunteers, including a far from well Quentin, payed a second visit to Ram Hill Colliery to continue improving access to the exposed dram line section. Once again it was a beautiful day with the site covered in primroses. Visits to Ram Hill are always enjoyable and the work is well worth doing.
Today (Thur 8th April) the BS Green Gym put up 8 more bat boxes in Savages Wood. This brings the grand total of identified and noted boxes of all types on the reserve to 84. After the downpour of Saturday it was lovely to be out in the sun and warm. Wood Anemones are out, birds are singing, passers by are smiling, what a difference a bit of sun makes. Long may it contnue.
Sat 3rd April - Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group workday:
Task: plant new trees at the Community Orchard - task complete - good
Task: plant soft fruit bushes at same - task complete - good
Task: plant wild flowers (dozens of them) at same - task complete - good
Task: clear around bottoms of fruit trees - task not compete - match abandoned, rain stopped play - bad
I won’t state that it rained worse than the Flood but the wildlife was filing off the reserve two by two, shortly followed by the bedraggled TBNCG three hours early.
Plan B - green Gym to complete task next week, maybe.
if it don’t rain.
Today six volunteers set out to clear Davis’s Pond. Quentin is ill and Greg’s carer appears not to be available so they were all missing. They were the lucky ones.
For one thing it lashed down freezing cold rain most of the session.
And the storm kettle took ages to light. Without Quentin we has to call upon the campfire expertise of our Guiding expert, and the use of a firelighter.
But the best news is that a dreaded TV camera team turned up, three quarters of an hour late and after we had cleared the pond So we had to throw the rubbish back in (well some of it) in order that we (and they) could be filmed taking it out again!
Still these guys were the local BBC crew, much nicer than national ones we have had in the past, and much more knowledgeable. And no complaints about soggy biscuits.
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