DIARY of EVENTS

Fourteen of us, and our local Ranger, met a Community Forester today and received instructions on how to prune and manage the Trees in the Orchard. We also gave him a tour of the Woodland Meadow.  

Nine brave members turned up at the Barn on a cold and wet Monday.  It had been hoped that we would be receiving a delivery of surfacing but no information about it had been received so we live in hope. After some deliberation it was decided to abandon any work for the morning as everywhere was very wet in the steady rain.

Fourteen workers arrived today, which allowed us to split into four groups as follows: We began the repair to the Round Walk above the Abbey Pond. We left it with the Revetments in place in readiness for the hardcore , which we hope to have next week. The hedge in Shene Field was trimmed The Cobbled Path was cleared of leaves, starting from where

Thirteen members turned up at the Barn on a lovely spring morning.  Four headed up to the Community Nursery with the intention of plotting the precise location of the various fruit/nut trees with the aim of assisting feeding and pruning in the future.  They didn’t report how successful  (or otherwise) they had been. The remaining nine members went to the new footpath and the groundsman

Thirteen members turned up at the Barn on a lovely spring morning.  Four headed up to the Community Nursery with the intention of plotting the precise location of the various fruit/nut trees with the aim of assisting feeding and pruning in the future.  They didn’t report how successful  (or otherwise) they had been.   The remaining nine members went to the new footpath and the

Before beginning work, the thirteen workers that arrived today, began a lively discussion on a few relevant topics. The provision of the container as our new base. The recently announced power tools initiative The card Core we are expecting to be delivered imminently We all then went firstly to the Cobbled Path then to Little Wood Bank and cleared the wet debris from both

The group of eleven all went to the Nature Park to meet with a Ranger to discuss the position of our new container. It will be sighted in the compound/log storage area, as far away from prying eyes as we could make it. They will let us know when delivery is to be arranged and then we can arrange the transfer. We did ask

It may have been cold, damp and icy underfoot but that didn’t deter nine of us from turning up. We decided to go to the two Abbey Ponds, and clear the outflows of debris and generally tidy up the area. When we left all 3 outflows were flowing freely. As we walked back, up the Drive past the Nature Park, we could see the

Eleven arrived at the Gorse Patch and successfully burned everything we had cut in the previous three weeks. Many mince pies, rum truffles, flapjacks and associated goodies were consumed at breaktime. The Bocking Lane Park bench had almost been finished off on Thursday afternoon, and just needs a bit of pointing at the top slab joints. Gavin has put the new Coir matting in

As last week, the fourteen who arrived today worked separately in three Groups.  Five went to Beauchief Abbey Lane and finished the clearance of autumn debris from the path and roadside. They then went up to Little Wood Bank and removed a fallen tree branch, reported after the Meadow had been mown. Seven of us turned up at the Gorse Patch. We concentrated on

Fourteen willing hands turned out today and like last week, we worked in three separate groups. Five went to the new pond and laid the coir matting; unfortunately we didn’t have enough, so more is to be ordered. The Group then went down to Beauchief Abbey Lane and continued the Leaf clearance.  Seven of us worked on more gorse cutting this morning.  There’s quite a

The twelve of us split into three groups today. Eight went to the Gorse Patch and began the annual pruning as planned.  The three bench builders had to dismantle one end of the new bench because it wasn’t quite as long as the combined top slabs that were left after the completion of the Stone Cross Field benches; so they didn’t make as much

Ten of the Group turned out today, with eight members turning up at the Barn, where the Council leaf blowers had been delivered (to be returned at 12 noon). We split into two groups, one heading along the Holly Path, around the back of the deer park, past the Nettle Patch and so back to the Cobble Path.  The other group started at the

Eleven workers arrived today on the first sunny morning for at least two weeks. We all went up Beauchief Drive, with two going to Gulley’s Meadow to repair a wall, which they achieved by coffee break time. They then joined the rest in the Orchard, where we trimmed around the base of the trees after the earlier mowing by the Council. We also measured

On a rather dull morning, twelve of us met and split into two groups. One group went to Gulley’s Wood Meadow and cleared the blackthorn suckers from the edge by Abbeydale Golf Course. The other group of six spent the morning finishing the deer park wall. We had to scavenge stone from around the park and still were a bit short on coping stones.

On a much better than expected autumnal morning, we had a group of twelve . Six workers went up to Park Bank Wood, where they repaired revetments that had rotted and filled a hole in the Path left by a Tree Stump falling over. Using unnatural resources that had been dumped in the vicinity [i.e. Concrete blocks, Bricks and loose Earth] we left it

Seven met this morning to continue work on the dry stone wall in the corner of the deer park. We continued to dismantle the loose section to ground level before re building from foundation level.