Let's Go Back To The Start....
If you look back to the blog entry for this time last year you will see the sentence:
"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!!"
Well - sorry to be the bearer of bad news folks - this week, Liz's task email informed NCVs that the top stretch down from the source to Lofthouse needed checking again. We couldn't progress down from Pateley - we needed to go back to the start. Boo Hoo! Now we know what it's like to be a Forth Bridge painter.
So - did the NCVs actually need to re-check that stretch? Was there any balsam lurking? Maybe they were being sent on a wild goose chase? Let's have a look shall we?.....
The trusty team of balsam pullers
met at the Lofthouse Fire-station.
Well, there was certainly some
balsam in this marshy area.
Soon it was all hands to the pump and graduallly...
... the pulled balsam started to pile up in a heap,,,
...and the area was cleared!
Let's have a check along the river bank.
No - all clear here.
No. I found this one too.
These two plants had pink fowers, but,
unlike the balsam, could be left very much in place.
'Andy the Brave' ventured down the steep river bank. It did look as if there was a single stem
down at the bottowm.
Lunchtime break was most
welcome in the muggy heat.
And then the job was completed - as far as
the planned section was concerned.
Not nearly as bad as the NCVs had thought.
Time to go home.
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