http://www.guerillagardeners.wn6.co.uk a project to get an old railway track restored so we can use it to walk to the village Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:39:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It is with deep regret that I will be closing down this project and my involvement in it as of today. The reasons are varied - but lets just say one person can't put up with the knock backs you get when you try and make a difference. I will operate without ... http://www.guerillagardeners.wn6.co.uk/archives/223 I've been working on this blog for two years now, all alone with little help.  Yes I've had support but nothing in the way of volunteer help from the general public. I've seen people take trees and plants (newly planted) and had the farce of council workers cutting down wild flowers.  ... http://www.guerillagardeners.wn6.co.uk/archives/220 It's been a while since reporting any great news and this news is really off project - but it's good news all the same. I have a bush/tree in my garden and each year it flowers with some beautiful and quite fragrant blue flowers - I love it and it really ... http://www.guerillagardeners.wn6.co.uk/archives/203 I reported yesterday on the indiscriminate thuggery by Wigan Council operatives - and their useless and destructive monolith of a mower. I have received a reply from a Local Councillor who is investigating it.  Some people may find this an insignificant kind of action, but I believe it is these types ... http://www.guerillagardeners.wn6.co.uk/archives/183 Sometimes you get to the stage where you feel like packing it all in.  Why?  Because something happens where you say why bother? I've been walking the line each morning looking for the first signs of wild flowers growing - I saw some signs yipee.  Some colour to the verge, some ... http://www.guerillagardeners.wn6.co.uk/archives/182 Hiya to everyone who's visited the site in the last 12 months it's had 1,500 visits from all round the globe (I've posted my Google Analytics map on the right) - strange really I only started this as a personal "because I can type thing".  Then the next thing you ... http://www.guerillagardeners.wn6.co.uk/archives/179 OK - I own up it was me on the BBC so a while but it wasn't me who puled the plug on the audio!! One interesting thing is that they approached me, so for anyone who is thinking of doing a bit just do it as Nike would say! Sooner rather ... http://www.guerillagardeners.wn6.co.uk/archives/178 28th August 2008 can now go down in history as the day the mile long Standish Line was resurfaced from top to bottom. With the kind assistance of many, the pathway is now ready to be used by the communities of Standish and Shevington Moor a like. Some may say I was ... http://www.guerillagardeners.wn6.co.uk/archives/171 Sometimes when people set out on these type of tasks you expect that mother nature will at least play fair - but sometimes she doesn't. When the Romans came to England if during there first summer they'd have experienced the weather we have had over the last few months they would ... http://www.guerillagardeners.wn6.co.uk/archives/164 So only 5 or 6 hours from when I last posted the digger was parked up and I went out to see what they had managed to do - erm quite a lot!! So tomorrow 200 tones of Sandstone arrive and away we go - more pictures and a perfect path ... http://www.guerillagardeners.wn6.co.uk/archives/163