Category: Monday Working Group

Nine members turned up at the Barn on a chilly morning.  Four headed to the path at the back of the Hall for resurfacing work and the remaining five started scraping and clearing the path from the Holly Path as far as Fred’s Seat.  Coffee was taken there by which time, first, soft hail and then snowflakes, started falling. After coffee efforts were made to demarcate the line of the footpath through the woodland to avoid trampling of the snowdrops and daffodils which are just beginning to appear. 

Monday Working Group share Christmas goodies at coffee (mulled wine!) break On the last working day of 2022 fifteen members turned up at Little Wood Bank to have our annual burn of the gorse that had previously been cut.  Luckily the weather had turned mild and the wind had got up so the whole of the cut gorse was burnt leaving a large mound of smouldering ash. At 11.00 am we held our traditional Christmas  Feast, with mulled wine and a huge selection of Christmas treats.

Eleven members turned up for work this morning. Five went to the gorse patch on Little Wood Bank to clear more of the oldest gorse as part of its annual cull. This will be burnt on the 19th as part of our Christmas celebration.  It was quite hard going due to the slope of the ground and the stacks of cuttings to navigate. However, we cleared a surprisingly large area.   Five headed for Park Bank Wood using the leaf blower loaned from the Council. Two worked on the steps whilst the blower team headed towards Bocking Lane then along

Thirteen active Monday Group members turned out today, but many more arrived for the planting of Queen Elizabeth ‘s Commemorative Tree , in the Nature Park.  The Group also put the uprights in, for a Bench in the Orchard, the horizontal to be attached later. 

Despite the absence of several regular workers, fourteen turned up at the Barn on a cool and cloudy November morning. We all, except our litter picker, headed to Little Wood Bank where gorse cutting was commenced ready for the pre-Christmas burn.  Seven worked on this area whilst the remaining six worked on scraping the paths between the former White Steps, the back of the Driving Range and on to the Rec field.  We also had time after coffee to work on the path which leads from Twentywell Lane towards Beauchief Drive though we hadn’t time to complete this task. Litter

Twelve of us worked on the path behind the deer field this morning clearing mud, leaves and over hanging growth – then adding several barrow loads of grit.

On a damp Monday morning nine of the group came out to play.  Two went to finish off the drystone wall at Ladies Spring Wood. They moved a huge block from the ground near the Deer Park to make a sturdier cheek end to the first gateway, and finished the cheek ends of the wall they’d been working on for the last couple of weeks. They also filled in the stile with all the leftover stone, leaving just a small area missing coping stones that needs completing. The rest made their way back to Abbeydale Hamlet, and were all surprised