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Our year started off, as always, with our two-day hedgelaying event. Although we started hedgelaying on the reserve in 2006, it wasn’t until 2010 that some bright spark suggested that we start hedging at Primrose Bridge and lay the entire length of Bradley Stoke Way. “Won’t take long,” they said. And now here we are eight years later and the end is in sight, but only if you were half way up a fire truck’s ladder! Much of the area, on both sides of the fence, is now covered with blackthorn thickets which
the one on Bowsland Meadow quickly disappeared, although the banner on Bradley Stoke Way worked well and we welcomed several newbies who had seen it. And for those who said they would have come if only they’d had more notice, the next hedgelaying weekend is on 5th/6th January 2019!
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On 27th December we received an email from Peter alerting us to high levels of water at the lake, and by the 28th the lake had risen high enough to cover the
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Volunteers at work alongside Bradley Stoke Way on the hedgelaying weekend
have greatly slowed us down. Fortunately, Green Gym have, for the last two years, gone in and have cleared the area in advance so that the Conservation Group can concentrate on just laying the hedge. This year we managed a record-breaking 42 paces, beating last year’s record of 32 paces. The weather may have been cold, but we were warmed by our traditional hot lunch cooked by our quartermaster Rob Williams, and as dusk began to fall we toasted our new hedge with his homemade sloe gin. Sadly, our new advertising banners didn’t last long, as
feet of the blue bench. We tried to alert StreetCare and Wessex Water, but it seemed everyone was on a well-deserved break, so we informed the Environment Agency, who were very helpful. Although we knew that the nearby houses would be safe, we were concerned about the Wessex Water construction site being flooded, which I’m sure would have caused them delays, but I believe that the weir must have been opened as by the next day the water level had dropped by 5ft or so. We still have a blockage by the Tump path, which has caused the brook to burst its banks in
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