Millenium Green: 12-07-2022

 

Well I never. I didn't know about that!

Tell me more.

New Conversation Day is annually celebrated on July 12 worldwide. This holiday is set aside to encourage people to talk to each other and make new friends. Well - what better thing to do than to volunteer with the NCVs and do just that?! Conservationists having conversations with conservationists about conservation!

This week the NCVs were informed that their services were no longer required to eradicate balsam at the top of the dale because.......

.....the battle has been all but won in that stretch! Hurray!! 

So - now they need to focus their efforts on the next stretch down the River Nidd from the Millenium Green Bridge to the main bridge in Pateley Bridge. Let's us take a look at what got done.....

Everyone met at the Millenium Green scout hut, where

conversation centred on who was going to go across to the 

far side of the river.

This was the starting point for the HB pulling task.

Conversation here moved on to the quantity of 

balsam that could be seen from this viewpoint.

And there WAS a lot!

Some of it very tall.

The conversation here focussed entirely on 

why this particular patch of balsam couldn't be a wee 

bit taller to save bending over.

Whilst Julia and Rachael were working they were were in 

deep conversation about the need to be armed against

 the many predators roaming the river banks.

A minute later they were proved right as an enormous 

tree monster loomed through the undergrowth.

Luckily the sight of Julia and her slasher 

stopped it in its tracks.

Brenda and Sarah considered what could 

be made from long lengths of balsam.

A new ballgown perhaps?

It is likely that Paul and Andrew, both wearing 

waders, were talking about the benefits of 

being able to work in the water in the warm weather.

Paul certainly looks as if he is feeling the chill!

Conversations with this NCV had to

 be conducted in a loud voice.

Luckily there wasn't a flash flood during

 the day.

Whilst most of the group conversed about weighty things

during the lunch break...

...one NCV preferred to try to 

push over a weighty thing.

No points for guessing what these four were talking 

about at the end of the day - 

• the good progress made 
• the excellent conversations they had had
• the fun they had all experienced (despite there being no shortage of brambles, nettles, trip hazards, serious slopes and the occasional bee or wasp sting.)