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Sunday, January 24, 2016

22nd December 2015 ... weekly volunteers

present:

David a, John, Keith, Ray, Bernard, Alan, mike p and martin.  Jonathan visited briefly to wish us happy Christmas.

activities:

- failed to look the ponies after 2 attempts
- pulled a rhododendron in cricket wood
- cut and split firewood in the tool store
- brought more logs into store to dry
- bit of gorse work along road before weather got too bad
- checked and cleared out the tawny nest box along the m1.  not being shared with squirrels as before, and the spare/addled eggs were all together. the were 11 of them.  now I am thinking about it I suppose it could have been a mandarin duck nest.  I need to check the books. [later:  convinced now that they are mandarin eggs]
- went off to the Hatch for a Xmas drink at lunch time
- drainage trench in front of store improved, to help reduce the mud

observations:

- horrid weather with very strong winds and horizontal rain
- John has taken a pair of clippers to mend
- work progresses on iseki


martin

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