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Wednesday, 20 November 2019

Wed 20th Nov 2019 - One Horse Field, Totland. GG # 811.

Terry's Photographs.

No prizes for guessing where we worked this week...!



In transit from the car park to the work areas.


Clearing the pathway to the view point.



The big job of the day.... raking up the recently cut grass.




A rather chilly tea break.


Trimming back all that summer growth.



The opened up pathway


One of the raked areas.


Yet another composting pile....!

It has become a bit of a GG tradition that, come the cold weather, we find ourselves working at the rather exposed area in Totland known as "One Horse Field". I am resisting the temptation to remark that even the last "one horse" has given up and found pastures new 😏. Actually, when we visit here in the summer months it is a nice venue....but when that cold wind is blowing at this time of year then perhaps not so alluring. What is the best way to warm up on a cold day? Get stuck into some hard work - which is exactly what we did. To the west of this site is a lovely viewing point that looks out over the Solent and Western Approaches - the foot path to which had become somewhat overgrown. With part of the team tackling that, the others were deployed to rake up the recently cut grass so that this area will return to wonderful meadow come next summer. The other good thing about working on a chilly day, that hot drink at tea break tastes wonderful....! It was a good turnout today considering it is a long way for most of us to travel and the weather wasn't the best we could have hoped for, so well done to all those who made the extra effort.

Many thanks to Terry for taking the photographs this week.

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