Ell Knowle Wood and West Wood, Summerbridge: 02-10-2018

Breaking News!!

New Nature Reserve for Summerbridge
gets some superhuman NCV help.

Yes - you heard it here first. Summerbridge is to have its own nature reserve - all thanks to landowners Helen and Chris Neave. You can read more about the work this couple are doing for the environment via their website - Make it Wild.

To achieve their goal they first needed to rid their woodland areas of unwanted pheasant pens and assorted metalwork. There was all sorts of things that needed shifting - as you can see below....

 In West Wood...

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...and in Elle Knowle Wood

Luckily for the Neaves a certain group of NCVs had heard about their plight. Any normal individual, taking a look at the job, would have turned pale and quietly slunk away, mumbling something about an unexpected medical appointment. But the NCVs are not normal individuals. 

They are SUPER HEROES! 

They zoomed into action (having first popped into a nearby telephone booth to change into more appropriate, NAONB branded garb for the occasion. Well - you wouldn't want them to get their capes dirty or their tights laddered would you?)

This group of super heroes used their super whizzy 

tele-transporter to get them to the site.

And they're off!
The pen in West Wood was the first on the agenda.

 Newly recruited super hero, Bendy Man, (Steve) dug out posts.

 Muscle Man (Andy) tore down wire netting.

Mattock Man (David) pulled up corrugated iron sheets.

Hammer Woman (Julia) destroyed this structure 
in no time - with the help of The Avenger (Ken).

Getting the resulting spiral of iron into transportable form 
turned out to be beyond even super human powers.

Straighter pieces could be broken up but often took
 a long time and much opening and closing.

Wire Roller Man (Dave) and String Deployer Woman (Ruth) shifted 
rolls of unwanted metal work in double quick time.
It was breathtaking to watch them.

By coffee time the West Wood pen was just a memory...

...and a heap of rubbish on the other side of the wall.

Legless Man (Tony) and The Mighty Turban (Paul)
then took some time out to allow their super powers to rejuvenate.

Luckily Hammer Woman had made a chocolate and beetroot cake 
to help the super hero gang build up their strength.
Not a bad way to eat one of your '5 a day'.
(Thanks Hammer Woman.)

Then it was over the field to Ell Knowle Wood 
to see what else needed removing.

Bendy Man shared some of his powers with the other super heroes.

More and more sheets of corrugated iron got added to the pile.

More and more lengths of wire were rolled up and flattened. 

And then - it was all over.

Well - almost. Now it was just a little matter of getting 
the two different heaps of rubbish down to the main gate.

But - first things first. Lunch!
These two super heroes used their bionic eyes to direct laser beams at two old wheelbarrows. Within seconds they had some classy garden furniture to sit on.

 Some after lunch fun was had with two bubble wands, 
found in the back of Super Hero Liz's land rover.

Wow - who needs a wand when you have a
 bubble producing finger like Hammer Woman?

 Then all that remained to be done was to load up the 
super trailer three times to transport the waiting debris.

Thanks super heroes.
You saved the day.