Thursday 28 February 2008

Team: Michael, Carolyn, Eric.
Weather: fine and bright initially with no breeze, clouding over later with a slight breeze.

What we did:

• Bonfire near to the west side of the upper churchyard (Hill Lane side) as we had four piles of brushwood and leaves to burn.
• Removed holly tree and bushes (using one of the new saws!) from graves which we also burnt.
• Raked up leaves, branches, twigs from the surrounding area and burnt them.
  
• Lots of litter clearance - 3 black bags of litter, a bag of cans, bucket full of bottles and a few pieces of metal for the pile.
• Moved more logs down to the Lion Brow log piles.
• Moved bricks and other rubble to the Lion Brow piles ready for the skips later this year.
• Well deserved tea and biscuits provided by Eric

Thursday 7 February 2008

Team: Peter & Carolyn
Weather: dry

What we did:

Litter pick in the lower churchyard. We filled two large bags of rubbish, two large bags of cans, and an overflowing bucket of bottles. We also collected quite a few pieces of metal (for the pile!), several bags of piles of newspapers which someone had kindly thrown into the bushes and a very large plastic pipe. It is amazing how much of the rubbish found on a litter pick is actually not litter thrown by the general public, but things left behind by workmen. The whole area looked much better after we had finished and it was lovely to see the crocus flowers coming out.