Hey a great stint today – spring is in the air and the project is going to receive a cash donation!!! Still got to sort it out yet but the lady read the article in the local Life magazine and was inspired to donate £50 – wicked.

Well things are coming along very nicely and it seems that the three point plan of attack is working a treat. If anyone missed it (hah of course they did) it’s really simple.

• Turn over 1.5 panels removing the top surface and stacking it to rot down. Use exposed cinder to rebuild path
• Remove litter from area where you cut the brambles last week (the brambles will be easy to rake away and get to the litter)
• Cut down next weeks batch of brambles.

So all told I’m actually working on 4.5 panels each week and effectively working 2 weeks ahead of myself.
I hit a rich patch of cinder that was higher than the existing level so I’ve been able to patch areas further up the line, filling in some muddier areas so that they have become at least passable.

I reckon that in the next few weeks I could be up to actually filling the very worst spot which is at least 6 inches in mud. If I can fill this by summer it will mean The Line from where I started to the main road will be passable without jumping from dry spot to not quite so muddy spot. It will be the first time in 8 or so years (if not more) that this will be possible.

A bit of revelation on the wildlife front, even more lady birds who seem to love the new nettles that are begininng to flourish, I hope our many spotted friends will move to the new flowers in the spring! Here’s a picture of one, quite hard to photograph but at least this one’s smiling!

Plus there are actually loads and loads of seedlings!!

The seed I scattered earlier in the year are growing,

they’re still small and a long way to go yet before we get flowers but “they’re off” as they say.

So yeh, a good session three hours or so on a nice spring morning, no nasty rubbish just the same old cornucopia of crisp packets and beer bottles – but I have spotted something that looks decidedly like an old discarded lamp post!! Either that or it a forgotten rocket launcher!!! Who knows I’ll keep report back next week.