We spent the week at the North Edinburgh Cyclepaths chopping back brambles and snowberry, and removing saplings from along the paths. On Tuesday we had a cage at Five Ways; however we were working mostly on the path along the bottom of Warriston Cemetary which was quite a distance away. Luckily we were able to use the Kangoo to transport the full white bags up the path. They tried to take the cage away at lunchtime but Chris used his powers of persuasion to get them to come back later.
There was no cage on Wednesday so we stashed huge quantities of brambles behind one of the railway pillars, while another group worked on the ash and sycamore saplings. The brambles hadn’t been cleared for at least 24 years – we figured this out Time-Team-style by examining the old Pepsi cans (in 1985 you could win a Duran Duran poster!)
We had a cage again on Thursday, which we blocked in with the Kangoo just to be on the safe side. There were more saplings cut down, and a large area of bramble removal was finished off with some rather ingenious use of ropes. It was a long walk on a rocky path with heavy wheelbarrows from where we were working to the cage but we managed to fill it to the top.