Having had to cancel the last two work parties because of wet weather, it was such a relief to wake up to sunshine on 22nd February. And there was a lot to do. Aside from routine maintenance work of clearing paths and repairing deer fencing, the winter storms had brought down some quite large branches and a couple of complete trees, the latter having squashed the fences of neighbouring landowners.

We far from completed the work, but we made a very good start, creating a new dead hedge alongside the public footpath in the process.

Other jobs included setting up yet more quillet stones, the one shown here to correct the position of quillet number 2876, and the other to mark the boundary with neighbouring quillet number 2875. We’ve also planted a couple Wild Service trees to meet our felling licence obligation of restocking the recent clearing with 20% of species different to Sessile Oak as a hedge (pun deliberate) against climate change and disease.

The next work party is scheduled for Sunday 22nd March. New volunteers are very welcome.