Thanks, Team, for the impressive action yesterday. Good to see you. If you couldn’t make this work day, rest assured that you were missed and jobs have been retained for your next session!
We benefitted from sunshine, muscles and cake – roughly in that order – and some serious tasks were tackled.
In Oaky corner – just inside the fence close to our pond information panel – the ground had been rather taken over by aggressive brambles. A strong squad (Mick, Gary, Fran and Martin) brought the space back under control and carted the green waste to our collection point. We’ll keep a watchfull eye open to encourage grass and wild flowers rather than a prickly no-go area.
Along Pen Row, Chris and Derek used our new cordless mower to great effect to leave the pathway looking beautifully clean, neat and tidy.
Elaine and Tony donned waders and ventured through the depths of the pond to prune overgrown trees on the nesting islands. The root depth is necessarily limited and we’ve seen how strong winds can overturn trees that are too high for their own good.
Bash did the most thorough of litter picks, covering every square inch of the Rec and tennis courts and gathering a collection of items that are much better off in a black bag.
Graham strimmed his socks off, improving grassy areas around the pond that had enjoyed wild flowers earlier in the year but were now looking rather scruffy. He also cleared the important route to the storage sheds behind the Clubhouse.
Ilona implemented the very best of TLC to corners of the Rec that offer havens to wild flowers, birds, butterflies and bees.
Mary squeezed a bit of tennis in before organising a much-deserved break for coffee and home-made, feather-light sponge cake, some of it expertly delivered to the intrepid water workers by Graham at the end of an extendible net (service not available on popular delivery apps).
Tony and Keith did some hedge pruning, green waste carting and fine-tuning around the Clubhouse and nearby paths. Didn’t we do well?