The major task during the month’s two work parties was building the two 40 metre long sections of bank in the subsidence areas located at roughly mid-point in Phase 2. The work involved shifting large […]

The Jet Stream played a major role in the success of the two work parties this month. By obligingly keeping north of the British Isles we were treated to a run of mild and, critically, […]

The recipe for successful work parties includes two essential ingredients.  Our old friend ‘the weather’ provided the first of these with five and a half days of dry conditions.  The second ingredient – the correct […]

This month saw a double helping of work party action as the society attempted to make up a little of the time lost due to newts/ground investigations/the virus.  Both events were highly productive and as […]

Welcome to the new work party normal – not so very different from the old normal. The first work party for four months inevitably included large doses of social distancing, mask wearing and sanitising in […]

It is perhaps a newsworthy item in itself that this work party took place at all. Several weeks of more or less continuous heavy rain made life difficult both on and off site. Every part […]

The first work party of the new decade was short in duration and all of the intended tasks were completed in a day and a bit. The main job, the excavation of ten trial holes […]

This work party was centred on the Crickheath end of the site. By its conclusion the vegetation clearance work on the whole of Phase 2 was finished and the stream which has delivered so much […]

Three tasks dominated this work party.  The newt fences around the compound and Phase 1 were subject to some major surgery; a long run of stock fence on Phase 2 was completed; and the construction […]

Two major landmarks were reached during this work party.  The last of the site strip in Phase 2 was completed, and the final major piece of work on Phase 1 was ticked off the list.  […]