Tuesday 16th November;
Polkemmet; Arrived at site; Sterling where already there when we arrived; loaded up with tools & trees for a day of planting; planted till lunch; after lunch Racheal took volunteers out for a ...
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Hail, Diggers and Flying Golf Balls!
A mixed bag of projects for us this week. Tuesday saw us up Corstorphine Hill for more Spirea clearance, poor weather meant a tricky task for Kate to get the fire started, but as always, she pulled through with a mixture of ...
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Wind, rain, mud and concrete… lovely
So the time has come to start our drystone seating. But before we can do the fun walling part, we have to do the messy foundations part. So we've spent the last 3 weeks digging some very large, muddy holes, with not very ...
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‘It looks a bit brighter over there’
Well another wet week of finishing projects.
On Tuesday we were at the Hermitage for the final time - completing the hurdles by the river path. As the posts were put in 2 weeks ago, all that remained to do was finish ...
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5 weeks down, 5 to go
So we're halfway through our 10 weeks at West Wemyss and the pace has definitely picked up. We've had lots of enthusiastic volunteers which has been great. They've now all but finished the cobbling in front of the mural and ...
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