The ancient sport of "giant fruit rolling"...!
All that effort needs a rest.
Repairing the steps.
Wrestling with rotten trees.
Rescued wild life.
Mark's Photographs.
Bob's Photographs.
The steps before (above) and after repair (below).
The wood carvings that were so difficult to move...
I have just glanced at Mark's notes and see that Green Gym has been working at this site for the past 18 years... you would think we would have got it all finished by now! (worse than Island Roads...😏) With autumn now with us, it was time to give the whole area an end of summer make-over. The first job was to rake up all the cut grass, leaves etc and to do a good litter pick. The steps we put in many years ago were showing signs of decay so the sides we dug out, the rotten timbers removed and replaced with new treated material to make them good again. The large carved apple and pear sculptures had been rolled down towards the stream so...with a lot of manpower and some grunt, we managed to get them back up to high ground before the floods come. Numerous "tidy-up" jobs were tackled and the whole area was looking spick and span by the end of the session. Numbers attending this week were down a bit on the norm, which was surprising as the weather was dry and sunny..!
Many thanks to Alison & Mark for snapping the photos this week.
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