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Wednesday 5 February 2020

Wed 5th Feb 2020 - Arreton Down. GG # 819.




As we arrive...the early cloud starts to clear.



Just a part of the L..O..N..G walk to the worksite.


Eventually we arrived - along with the tools.


Getting stuck-in..!



Tea break on a rather steep slope.


Part of the area we cleared.

Mark's Photographs.








This week we were supposed to be working at the Sandown Meadows site...but the following e-mail from Mark will explain all.....

As mooted last week we have a change this Wednesday. We will now be up on Arreton Down doing some scrub removal rather than the Sandown Meadows site. Several factors, the road is closed along Longwood Lane in Adgestone on Wednesday, and also the Morton Common alternative is still flooded. Will we ever make it there you may ask!

So...off to the TOP of the Downs it was but as it turned out, the area we were working on was at the BOTTOM of the Downs and at the other end to where the car park was (who said that GG sessions had to be easy..?😏) Due to a frosty start, everyone had turned up with multiple layers of clothing - the top layers of which were soon to be discarded as the sun showed through and work got underway. Once again, the brief was easy "cut everything down then pile it up for future use" (as dead hedging). A good deal of scrub was chopped back but I imagine that there will be a few sore calf muscles, come tomorrow morning, from working on the steep hillside...!

As a matter of interest....there is yet another scheduled visit to work at Sandown Meadows on the 4th March - 4th time lucky..????

Many thanks to Mark for his photographic contribution this week.

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