Sunday 2nd February 2020 - Work Party

The pools forming in the central stream.

Rain was in the forecast but we managed to keep dry nearly until the end. This month's work was mostly about water management as we have had a lot more rainfall than average this winter.

The high volume of water in the main ditch had swept a lot of debris with it, despite being cleared earlier in the season. This was removed and the pipes left clear again.

The path at the  bottom has become waterlogged, just a bit!, where the  central stream currently overflows and crosses it. The engineers of the group have suggested that we tackle this problem once it dries out as it would be impossible to dig at the moment.

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So what we did do was clear a bit of a sump area, this is the team pulling out a bedstead, and dig out the channel a bit to move the water more quickly on it's way to the ditch at the road end.

At the top end of the woodland the gap into the field was tidied up. With time to spare, we began our initiative to help out with the churchyard management and did some nettle pulling.

The bedstead pulled out of the mud.

Snowdrops planted in the green a few years ago.