WCT

John 'wine gums' Keynes would be proud of our mathamatical abilities (awful joke - I know - Maynards make wine gums and Keynesian Econmics - John Maynard Keynes - if you didn't get it). It may have been simple maths, but none ...
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Mowsbury Hill in Bedford is somewhere the Weekday Conservation Volunteers have been many times before. Not for me. It is a very nice site - quite hidden unless you are familiar with the golf course & regularly shank balls ...
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Above: The receiving of the award.Above: The Bill Oddie speech. You may be able to make out John sat at the table with Tom Flood and the back of my head!!!Above: The venue - it certainly looks stunning from this vantage ...
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BTCV Chief executive, Tom Flood (below right), accompanied John Anderson (below middle) and myself (Ed Green - below left) to the Network Rail Environment Awards held at the Natural History Museum in London.At this award ...
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On 30/06/08 and 03/07/08 the Weekday Conservation Team took on a few projects at Priory Country Park. One of which was the reconstruction of a weir.Above: Duncs is lurking in the background with a drill. Rob, in the yellow ...
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3 of our long serving Weekday Conservation Team volunteers (see photographs) are working hard at raking the grass at The Pightle in Eaton Socon. This is another of our regular sites and one where wild flowers flourish in the ...
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On the 16th and 19th June 08, the Weekday Conservation Team (WCT) visited Great Stukeley (a Network Rail Site of Special Scientific Interest - SSSI). The land is strictly NO public access, so the only way to visit is with the ...
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On a slightly wet afternoon at Downs Barn in Milton Keynes, I (Ed Green) appear to be going slightly mad. I assure you I am only posing for a photo! I am standing on the woodland path that we have created with the help of the ...
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In a welcome change to bridgebuilding (three in the last two weeks!) it was back to Shortmead House, a site popular with the volunteers because of the free ice creams (thanks Marilyn). A variety of tasks awaited us including ...
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Today we constructed a bridge behind Fenlake at Priory Country Park. This was a task that was washed out by the rain the last time we did it, so we were pleased to get it done, the design altered slightly so that it sat a bit ...
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