This week eleven NCVs, along with six heritage skills students and their two tutors, joined Paul for a day in Fishpond Wood. We first listened to a short talk by Paul Burgess about the AONB's position on the conservation of Hen Harriers before setting off, with our tools, to start on our main task.
The task? Just a bit (!) of undergrowth removal to prepare the ground for the diggers to come in to remove silt from the top end of the Fishpond Wood lake. One of the students now takes up the story......
Today, the Heritage team lucratively completed their objective, in Fishpond Wood. The task was relieving the marsh terrain of the obstruction of trees and brash plants to allow the rest of the conjoined lake to flow into that space and add to the overall mass of the lake itself.
Today, the Heritage team lucratively completed their objective, in Fishpond Wood. The task was relieving the marsh terrain of the obstruction of trees and brash plants to allow the rest of the conjoined lake to flow into that space and add to the overall mass of the lake itself.
The bottom end of the lake is as it should be.
However - the top end is a different story....
So much rhododendron to clear. So much mud to brave.
Team work was definitely the order of the day.....
Paul passes to Ros E.....
Osian bravely tests out the bridge that was
constructed across the bog of eternal doom.
Ed and James reduce the size of a branch by half....
... whilst Tom, Carl and Charlie double the size of a brash pile.
During a much enjoyed intermission, the team took the liberty of using the clay oven at the Bewerley Park Centre to prepare lunch.
Leo
The lunchtime pizza bake off begins with a demonstration by Paul.
Then it's every man for himself.
Into the oven go the pizzas and out they come baked to perfection.
No soggy bottoms here!
Joanne gets stuck into her pizza....
... whilst Terry takes a more genteel approach.
...and here's the bar. Very secure.
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