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Despite a confident forecast of heavy rain throughout Sunday morning and then moderate rain in the afternoon by the time we were ready to start work the sun was out and stayed out all morning!
We knew five of our regulars would we unable to come and perhaps the forecast put off others so we only h...
On a perfect sunny and not-to-warm morning we had 10 members attend, and considering this was one of the last weekends of the holiday period it was quite a reasonable number.
The jobs completed were as follows :
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The six new posters for our Green Flag Community Award for 2019/2020 were put up...
A fine morning and a good turnout of 14 members. The jobs completed today were :
- The cutting down and removal of a large branch that had been hit by lightning just over a week ago and was partly covering the main path on the Markham Road site.
- One of the legs on an oak bench installed sever...
After being told by six of of our regulars that for a variety reasons they were unable to attend today's session I was quite surprised that we managed to get nine members attending. It was a sunny morning and with little breeze and also quite warm.
- Many paths were now getting overgrown and even...
After several humid days this morning was much fresher with just a few bits of very light rain.
We expected today's turnout to be low as several people had already confirmed they would be missing for one reason or another and this is what happened with only 8 volunteers coming. We still managed to...
We had 11 members turnout out this morning on a dry cloudy morning. The numbers were less than recent sessions but as often happens on a bank holiday weekend several regulars were away on holiday.
Today we concentrated on getting the two wildflower areas ready for new seed to be sown.
- The ar...
A dry cloudy morning and eleven members were present.
The jobs completed were:
- An Ivy clad Hawthorn that had collapsed onto the bridleway earlier this week was cut down and moved away from the path. Part of the tree was still alive so it will hopefully regrow to fill in the gap. Two other trees...
Despite steady drizzle, and several regulars having already let me know they couldn't attend today, we still had a good turnout of 14 volunteers.
The jobs completed were as follows:
- The wildflower area alongside Thoresby Road was enlarged so that it is now about double the size it was. The grass...
On a very cold but sunny morning we had ten members attend today's session and between us we completed the following jobs.
- Four of the group again swept the leaves from the bridle path.
- The usual litter pick was completed on both reserves.
- The rest of us concentrated on clearing overhanging...
After a cold few days this morning was a perfect winter morning without a cloud in the sky and feeling pleasantly warm.
We had another great turnout with 17 volunteers which included two new people who intend to become members.
Today was the second part of our helping in Broxtowe's Clean and G...
