Branchlines March Updates
BRANCHLINES AND OLD SCHOOL WOOD
Working Party. Saturday 28th March.
Volunteers will meet as usual at 9.30am by the benches on the main track. Bring a hot drink for 11am refreshment break This will mark the end of the tree planting and coppicing season.
Update. Money raised at the White Horse in memory of David Hilditch has been used to buy a new bench to go by the main pond. The hedge laying course last month will have improved our skills and hopefully finished most of the ‘top’ hedge. Much coppicing of hazel has been carried out, provding stakes and ‘hetherings’ for this work. Yet more wood chippings were laid on more sections of muddy path. Many thanks to various people who have donated these.
Please do not take away wood from the various piles we have made.
We are pleased to welcome Paul Clover on to the Branchlines trustees. He was duly voted in at the AGM.
David Taylor
ST LAWRENCE CHURCHYARD
Working Party. Saturday March 14th. If you would like to help with ongoing general maintenance, meet 9.30am at the churchyard. No special skills needed and we stop for a chat and refreshments at 11am.
Update. Expect to see more information on display this spring. Graveyard Rules with notification that prohibited items will be removed. All Dogs to be kept on leads. Renewed signage for the War Graves trail to accompany the new leaflet.
We have spread chippings again on the muddy paths. Dead branches have been collected up and tidied away.
The compost bins are for soft vegetation only so, please, no turf, plastic, woody prunings. There is a litter bin next to the compost bin and dog poo bins elsewhere.
Sunken graves are due to be topped up when the weather allows.
I have heard the woodpecker drumming in the great oak. Birds are prospecting for places to nest and they may choose one of our nestboxes, trees or hedges. There should be plenty of natural food available for them in the churchyard and immediate neighbourhood.
David Taylor
