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 Ready, steady, coppice
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 Brasenose Woods on a crisp autumn morning - beautiful
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 Section 1999 in need of some OCV TLC
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 Mary's bonfire
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 Lots of bull rushes removed in a morning's work
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 Knocking in an intermediate fence post
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 The dismembered willow
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 The bank, a keen volunteer made an early start
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 The north fen, ready for raking.
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 OCV and the Friends for the Lye Valley hard at work
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 Building a temporary bridge (Photo courtesy of Alan Allport, Friends of the Trap Grounds)
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 Removing a rusting chassis from Heron Swamp
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 Plenty of hawthorn to clear so the grass can be mown later
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 Raking the North fen (courtesy J Webb)
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 Tea break (courtesy J Webb)
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 Banded General Soldierfly (Stratiomys potamida) (courtesy J Webb)
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 The spire of St. Mary's church across the fields
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 Man With Balsam 1
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 Prize Specimen
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 A view across one of the six meadows
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 Finishing off the decking on the pedestrian bridge.
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 Logs laid down on the muddy areas of the path
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 Finishing off the decking on the bridge for the ponies.
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 Small Balsam - before
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 Small Balsam - after
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 Tea-time
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 Path before work - worn down by weather and motorbikes
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 Stone pitching 1 - A hole is dug (easier said than done in stony ground)
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 Stone pitching 2 - Hole is filled with stones with as few gaps as possible ("horizontal drystone walling")
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 Digging in the first foundation sleeper on one of the bridges
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 The bridging timbers countersunk for the coach screws that will fix them to the sleeper
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 The view across the fen
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 Rectory Farm Fields
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 Excavating fallen stones both sides of the wall
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 The wall is collapsing in places
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 It's a wrap! The dismantled chainlink fence
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 Unusually civilized arrangements for lunch
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 A very nicely hung gate
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 Mixing it up
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 Mixing team 2
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 "Like icing a cake"
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 Jubilee Fields & Long Meadow and a multiplicity of tasks
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 Replacing a sign #1
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 Replacing a sign #2
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 Building a barricade by the bird hide
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 The plan is to divert the footpath...
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 ...so that birds have a space to nest close to the pond
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 Today we're clearing scrub from the fen.
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 Brambles and willow/hazel/birch regrowth is taking over in some areas...
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 ...and shading out the fenland species.
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 Clearing scrub from the valley side to preserve the limestone grassland
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 Without intervention the whole valley side would progress to woodland...
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 ... and the rare grassland flora would be lost
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 At Sunny Aston Rowant to plant Juniper
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 Juniper cuttings ready to plant out
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 Off to dig
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 The finished repair to the bird hide
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 Oxford Conversation Volunteers
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 Hanging out gloves to dry
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 Clearing the woodland ride at Sydlings Copse
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 Cleared path
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 And starting to clear the fen.
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 In Mary Sadler's Field: clearing the scrub that inhibits the heather
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 One of several piles of cut gorse with established heather in the middle distance to the right
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 heather to the left of the path, gorse to the right.
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 Today we're tackling a slope covered in a tangled mass of bramble, rose and thorn.
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 Photos from forty years ago show the slope covered in chalk grassland flora, but grazing sheep haven't been enough to stop the scrub invading.
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 So we're going to return the slope to the rare chalk grassland for which Aston Rowant is famous.
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 Holywell Cemetery, managed for wildlife...
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 ...and a haven of tranquility for quiet contemplation.
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 Each mid-winter we clear some of the brambles between the memorials...
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 Jerry gets everyone's attention with some mince pies
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 Clearing reeds and reshaping the pond
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 Looks messy but will hopefully help the frogs and toads that use the ponds when breeding.
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 Planting shrubs to help protect the Kingfisher bank (Courtesy of Alan Allport, Friends of The Trap Grounds)
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 Tea break (Courtesy of Alan Allport, Friends of The Trap Grounds)
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 Tea break for some very wet volunteers
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 Raking up and removing cut vegetation
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 The hedge at the beginning of the day
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 Removing excess scrub
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 Dinner on the campfire
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 Today we're helping the Friends of the Trap Grounds once again.
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 The main lake is in danger of filling entirely with reeds, so we're clearing some out.
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 Testing the waters.
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 Today we're working in a beautiful chalk grassland coomb with a view
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 The rarer chalk grassland plants are being choked by Tor grass
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 Tor grass is unpalatable to livestock, so we're clearing it with grass hooks
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 Since our last visit the Kingfisher bank shuttering has been backfilled with earth...
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 ... and an attractive pond excavated by digger.
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 The sides of the pond are however a bit regular and steep ...
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 Today we are helping to clear the pretty stream running through the Waterways wildlife corridor
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 A very good turnout from OCV and local residents
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 The stream has become clogged with vegetation ...
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 Today we're helping the friends of St. Mary's Field ...
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 ... with raking the hay meadow
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 The hay is piled in the undergrowth, as habitat and hibernacula for reptiles, amphibians, mammals and invertebrates
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 Return to Ibstone to dig more Hawthorns and pull Ragwort
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 Tool talk
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 Orchids now over but still many flowers, like Wild Parsnip ...
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 Post Hole
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 Mick, don't look
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 Bucket with a view
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 We're helping the Friends build a Kingfisher bank
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 Area in front will be dug out to make a deep pond, the soil will be used to make a near vertical bank
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 Today's task is to put up temporary shuttering to support the soil until it has stabilised
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 The view ...
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 ... and the chalk grassland meadow we are helping to conserve ...
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 ... with common spotted orchid ...
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 The churchyard wall at lunchtime, with walnut tree
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 The back wall of the churchyard
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 Taking a well earned rest
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 Starting to rake the south fen
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 Snapping reeds on the south fen
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 Volunteers taking a break
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 Work on the first stretch of wall
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 First stretch of wall
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 Telegraph poles are remarkably heavy to carry...
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 ...but luckily there are lots of OCVers here to move this one
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 In the foreground everyone is busy digging holes for posts. In the background four lucky volunteers are out on boats, pulling reeds
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 At the Grey Mare's Tail
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 The start point for our walk
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 That is the Grey Mare's Tail - it's a waterfall you see, not a tail.
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 The weather today looks less promising!
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 The first of several warnings
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 Striking out
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 Setting off
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 Our first view of Carrifran
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 The viewpoint
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 View from the hill above our hall
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 Near the hall
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 Our lovely abode is at the bottom right
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 Toad in the hole
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 Beginning of the day
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 Collapsed wall being dismantled and graded
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 OCV's task today is to restore this heap of stone to its former glory as a dry-stone wall
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 First job is to get rid of encroaching brambles
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 Next the stones are laid out by size - already things are looking more organised!
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 Planning the next visit
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 Starting the fire
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 Feeding the fire
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 Precarious positions #1
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 Pollarding a young willow
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 Cultivate + OCV = a volunteer army
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 Mulch ado
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 A watched pot never boils
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 A frosty and damp start
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 A barrier made from brash and a log pile for invertebrates
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 Building a new set of steps
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 Cutting up felled trees to create habitat piles
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2 More... |
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 Preparing cut scrub for the bonfire
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 Alison on the horizon
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 Stapling on the netting
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 Missing hedgelayer?
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 Billhook in action
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 Neighbours enjoying a tasty snack
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 View from the Hill
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 Mick's in there somewhere
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 Happy scrub cutters
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 Barn camping
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 Dawn at the ranch
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 Celebrity woodsman Brian Williamson demonstrates the use of a billhook
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 Pick a billhook, any billhook...
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 Matt is starstruck
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 Equipped to round up lambs
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 Raking up the cut reeds on the South fen
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 We found this little fella (a cricket)
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 We also found evidence of other inhabitants
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 First fire of the season
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 Coppicing
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 Michelle creates the OCV version of the Olympic flame
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3 More... |
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 Work under way on the wall
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 Mixing lime mortar
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 We had to cover the wall as we went along, because of the rain!
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 Raw materials #1: An overgrown path
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 Raw materials #2: Willow in need of pollarding
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 Raw materials #3: Hedging plants
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 Steps - Before
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 Steps - After
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 Path before
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 The sleeper walkway is important at Chilswell because the ground is very boggy
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 The task today is to renew the walkway, which has slipped over the years
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 This involves moving the heavy sleepers, and lots of mud
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 Measuring up our little bridge
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 A beautifully warm sunny lunch just before the heavens opened
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 Banging in the posts for the hand rail
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 Long reeds/sedge waiting to be cut back
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 A lovely advert for Wickes!
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 Wisely cutting in the few shaded areas
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 Public Enemy #1: Cirsium vulgare (Spear Thistle)
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 Public Enemy #2: Cirsium arvense (Creeping Thistle)
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 Thistle-clearers at work - large area already cleared
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 Wild swimming pool (Tumbling Bay, Botley)
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 Our fearless social secretary prepares to test the water
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 Michelle is not far behind
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 Pruning a tree in the lake, using a pole saw
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 Lydia does some pruning on an island in the lake
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 It was very green and lovely in this rare moment of sunshine
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 Our target - Ragwort
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 Fields full of ragwort
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 Third task at Standlake. Time to finish that bridge.
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 The biggest task remaining is to add some planks to walk on. These are wired onto the pipes.
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 On the other side, steps up to the bridge are needed
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 Admiring the rope bridge and slide at the Ranch
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 Pipework!
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 Chris cuts the pipe to the right length
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 Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet
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 Putting in a straining post
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 An old post that was levered out of the ground
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 This is the part of the lake that we are to bridge
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 We will be using these bits of old telegraph poles for uprights
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 And these old pipes to span the gap
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 These errant stones have escaped from the wall at Holywell
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 The escaping stones have left a gap in the boundary
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 Never fear, OCV volunteers are here! Lime mortar is mixed in buckets
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7 More... |
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 Finishing the oak tree guard
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 Selection of stones is important
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 And digging a good trench is important too
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 First: place upright stones along path edge
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 Moving a sleeper towards its new home as a footbridge
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 Footbridge under construction
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 Putting in uprights for a hand rail
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 Coppicing the smaller trees to help increase biodiversity
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 Burning brash
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 A well deserved tea break under an unseasonally clear sky
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 Mug tree
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 One of the last bonfires of the season... sadly
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 Before coppicing
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 Bloody nose beetle
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 Bloody nose beetle
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 Coppicing the trees with the hazard tape!
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 Starting a fire without matches (okay, there had been a fire there during the week...)
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 Usually we have only one bonfire but this task we had not just one...
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 Bird hide construction
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 There was some rain, and some hail, but at least we got this rainbow
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 Some dramatic lighting at the end of the day
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 The 'elbow' in the revetment
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 marsh whorl snail, Vertigo antivertigo (marginally larger than a poppy seed)
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 The new OCV mini bus
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 Fen Anagallis tenell
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 Marsh helleborine
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 Fen flora
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 Duck decoy dog
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 Journeys start
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 Starting the walk up a hill
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 A well-worn path
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 Morning walk
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 River view
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 Dew pond requiring attention
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 Dew pond inspection
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 Digging a dew pond
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 The Ditch Pitching Gang
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 A beautifully pitched ditch
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 Fence destroyers take the old fence down
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 First straining post hole is ready
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 Attaching the wire
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 Sheep with lambs
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 Flock of sheep ready for foot trimming
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 Rounding up the sheep
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 Getting started on day 2
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 Smoothing the edges
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 Tim ponders
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 Hill End Totem Pole
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 Marking out for the new boardwalk
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 Sawing up the planks to the correct length
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 Marking out the steps
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 Sacrilege - I don't hold with these new fangled tea-making devices!
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 Fen edge after willow pollarding
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 Tea break
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 Frog spawn in the pond
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 Magpie
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 One of the rides
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 Volunteers at work early in the day
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 Coppice woodland
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 Where to put the mulch?
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 Collecting the mulch for the saplings
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 Helping some saplings along
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 Overgrown scrub alongside the pallisade fence at the start of the day
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 The new Triple-S kettle in action
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 Breakfast
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 Westonbirt in the morning
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 Yesterday's fire
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 To the Silk Wood...
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 Getting started
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 Watching a demo from Tim
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 Hedgelaying demonstration
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 A well-stobbed willow
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 Boardwalk anti-slip netting neatly patched
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 Wet volunteers
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 Getting out the bramble roots
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 Slightly damp BBQ
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 A tidy coppice stool
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 Fire
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 Coppicers at work
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 Clearing the area
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 Starting to dig
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 Fen raking - it's a drag!
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 Bench 1
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 Bench 2
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 First you have to dismantle the wall
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 Inigo pretending to fall in - we're not falling for it!
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 Pippa enjoys some of the picnic
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 Post tea-break petulance
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 Before - overgrown Red Kite viewing area
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 Steve in action
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 Digging up brambles is fun!
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 Waiting for the work to begin
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 The poles mark the planned course of the diverted stream
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 Unpacking the tools
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 Paul shows off Aston Rowant
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 Fixing a gate
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 Everyone hard at work
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 Making sure the post is perfectly straight
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 Attaching the wire
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 Admiring the moor fire-fighting equipment
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 Pegs... they're like mushrooms!
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 The OCV tea faerie tests his latest brew
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 Pipe-edging the duck decoy, now used to collect wildfowl to be ringed.
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 Putting in the posts
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 Tea break
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 Preparing the ground for the steps
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 Step creation in progress
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 Good progress
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 Preparing a hole for junipers
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 Juniper on chalk grassland
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 Completed hole containing cage for Juniper seedlings
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 Sheep hunting
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 Found them!
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 Sheep foot trimmers at work
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1 More... |
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 Finishing off the bonfire
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 Bonfire in an Iron Age defensive ditch
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 Willows to coppice
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 A novel way to transport brush wood
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 Time for tea break
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 The beginnings of the bonfire
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 The bonfire is growing
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 Climbing Mount Fog
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 At the summit
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 Tea break
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 Where is jo?
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 Lunch time
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 Lunch time
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 Scrub clearance
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 Firewood from coppicing
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 The clearing after our coppicing
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 "Jew's Ear" mushrooms
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3 More... |
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 Preparing hedgelaying binders
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 Building a cordwood stack
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 View from the Folly
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 The new tool shed?
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 After siding-up
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 One down....
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 Nathalie demonstrating the art of rake leaning like a true OCV veteran
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 Rise and shine (the sun, that is.... not an OCVer in sight)
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 Ready for work. Now where did those tools go?
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 Finishing the gate and dead-hedge
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 The pine candle was more popular than the camp fire!
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 Chilli cooking on the fire
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 Happy moonlit campers
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 Well earned lunch break
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 All members as welcome, Pippa included
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 We don't just build walls, we also build the ancient treasures of Egypt
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 Sand drawing - which species of tree is this?
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 Miranda digging a posthole
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 Looking down the fenceline to the sea
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 Checking the straightness of the post
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 The obligatory 'before' photo
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 Susan contemplates the task ahead
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 Where do we start?
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 The Tackley Heath Pond
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 Starting work
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 Tea time
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5 More... |
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 The duck decoy
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 A duck's eye view of the decoy
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 Pollarding
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7 More... |
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 Putting in uprights for new platform
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 Newly extended ponds ready for the wildlife to move in
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 Pond creation
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 Hard at work
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 OCV crack team of pond diggers, not put off by the scorching heat
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 Starting to extend the main pond, and create smaller ponds
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 Training from an expert
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 Sheep pedicures
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 The queue for free pedicures grows as word gets out
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 Select your sheep
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 Entrance to the wood
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 Carrying the tubes that have been removed
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 It was a very sunny day
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 How many OCVers does it take to build a stile?
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 Completed stile
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 Volunteers keen to start
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 The master class - see how easy it is...
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 The reason this is important
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 Starting a post hole
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 Post-bashing
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 Finishing off
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 Teamwork: Attaching the wire netting.
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 Finished boardwalk
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 Group photo
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 Sgwd-yr-Eira waterfall
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 Steep scramble on our walk
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 Completed stone pitched culvert
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 Completed culvert
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 Playing pass the pigs at the NT base camp
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 Barbeque time
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 Chopping firewood at the basecamp
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 Clearing rubble from the path ready for new scalpings
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 Some of the rubbish we collected
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 Habitat pile
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 A fine bonfire
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2 More... |
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 Attacking the collapsed willows
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 Base camp
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 A bit of overstaffing?
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 Cutting back the smaller dogwood
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 Warming bonfire
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 At work on the quarry site
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 Michael hard at work at the fire site
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 Embers of the fire
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 The gang
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 Mutual support?
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 The state of affairs at the start of the day...
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 Beginning of the day as we started work
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 Roger, our warden for the task
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 Catherine from the Friends of the Trap Grounds
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 Tidying up the tools at the end of the day
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 Humph... not sure what this is?!?
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 Craig, our expert fire builder!
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 Our new OCV tree!
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 Putting the finishing touches to the hedge
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 Completed section of hedge
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 Lunch time
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 Jim's amazing dogs!
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 Multi-coloured sparklers
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 Lunch time leaf-gazing
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 The weather was glorious
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 We didn't cut these ones down
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 Starting work
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 Cutting back the undergrowth to make way for fritillaries
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 Habitat pile made from wood moved off the flood plain
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 The completed fence
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 Packing up behind the completed fence
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 Happy volunteers
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 Before our work
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 Gentian
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 Tea break
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 Ripping out the old fence netting
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 Chris and Jo preparing to strain wire
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 Monkey strainers in all their glory
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 Swanage Bay
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 Naomi in front of the wall before we started work
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 The essentials in life: tea and biscuits!
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 New post positioned by string line
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 Pro-fencing team work on new straining post!
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 Straining post complete, ready for wire.
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 Getting started
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 Fighting their way through the grass
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 Spot the ragwort
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 Starting to build the chestnut fence
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 Errected chestnut fence
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 Chiselled chestnut fence joint
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 Dismantling the old fence
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 English Stonecrop (close-up!)
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 Foxglove
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 Sheep's-Bit
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 Devil's-bit Scabious
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 Pyramidal Orchid
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 Before work on the steps
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 After work on the steps, with a new bit of rivetment
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 Line-wire straining the posts; stock netting laid out and ready to staple up and complete the barrier
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 Delapidated fence? Who you gonna call...?
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 Dismantling the old fence
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 Birds-Foot Trefoil - an 'indicator' species of unimproved chalk grassland
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 Sgwd yr Eira - A very fine waterfall and a good spot for lunch
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 Dan Y Gyrn Base Camp - Official Photo!
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 View from behind Sgwd-yr-Eira falls.
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 At the Storey Arms after a day's culvert clearing
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 Path down from Corn Du
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 Culvert cleared of debris, with outflow channel extended toward edge.
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 Resting atop Pen-Y-Fan, highest point in the Brecon Beacons
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 Digging new drainage ditches along footpath
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 National Trust warden spreading grass seed in the new ditches
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 Fence and gate construction
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 You don't wanna do it like that...
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 The finished fence, gate and stile from the outside
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 On a clear day, the view is spectacular...
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 Andy provides a cheesy grin
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 Clearing the fenceline ready for replacement fencing
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 Michelle sneaks up behind Peter with loppers - fancy a haircut Peter?
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 All the old headstones are leaning at interesting angles
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 Bonfire - plus rainbow!
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 Swarms of scrub bashers
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 Lunch break
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 Andy makes cordwood
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 Chris stacks logs to form a habitat pile
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 Much tree growth had been cut back to stop the forest taking over the ancient pathway
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 The morning cuppa....
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 Bonfire "A" by the stream
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 Two-woman bow-saw
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 Bonfire "B" was even bigger
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 Admiring the bonfire
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 Loading the bonfire
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 After a hard days work
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 Brambles and ivy cleared from the headstones needed to be burnt
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 The bonfire raged...
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 Volunteers survey their handiwork as the bonfire dies down
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 Mike makes a guest appearance
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 Conversation and drinks in the Turf
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 Hazel stakes harvested for hedgelaying
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 Cordwood stack
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 Dead-hedge deer-deterrant
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 This poor tree didn't stand a chance...
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 Local flock penned for hoof clipping
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 A woolly captive
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 2 folk and a sheep
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 Surveying the days work, the last task of 2007.
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 A nice cup of tea.
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 Looks like someone decided to recycle an old 70's shower curtain.
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 Before starting work, we herded the sheep into a different field
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 A fine specimen
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 This treestump was in a dangerous position and needed to be removed using some OCV muscle
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 Britwell Salome hedge starting view
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 Cutting to the cores
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 Jamie demonstrates pleaching technique
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 Bonfire building
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 Coppicing
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 Tree with twisty vine growing into it
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 Fen raking in the sunshine
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 Teamwork
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 Hook Norton Cutting Crew
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 Clearing the slope for wildflowers
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 Local help
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 Beating those Brambles
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 Young woodland of the new century
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 Hedgelaying work half complete
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 Camp
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 Camp
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 Camp fire
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 Making the Tea
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 Down the wall
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 Job Done
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 Site when we arrived
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 Walling
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 Walling at Durlston
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 Footpath section as we found it.
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 New talent on the job
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 A swinging time
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 Old fence as we found it.
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 Post and rail under construction.
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 Hybrid fence, as we left it.
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 First post
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 Boundary Brook bird feeder
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 Boundary Brook pond
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 Broadening the path
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 Path to Church Hanborough
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 Jim carrying a spade incorrectly!
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 Out for a walk on our free day
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 Climbing up the Craig Cerrig - it was actually sunny (for a while)
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 We had great views on our free day.
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 Second work site
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 What a jovial bunch of people
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 OCV and the National Trust show their undying loyalty to Queen & Country
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 Rob, the National Trust warden
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 Base camp
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 The badger, of course
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 Westward view
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 Cowslips & Forget-me-nots
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 North path before
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 Fencing with locally-cut material
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 Teamwork on the bowsaw
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 Crecy Nature Reserve path
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 Crecy footpath at the point of completion
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 Crecy reserve from the top
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 How many OCVers does it take to build a stile?
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 Is that Jamie behind those twigs? No point in hiding from us. We will ALWAYS find you.
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 All we need is a guitar
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 Logs!
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 An example Cotswold Pennycress (by Plantlife's consultant Judy Hart)
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 A vision of a fence. Top dollar.
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 Hello, my name is Shaun. Baaaaaaa!
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 Sheep graze the coarse grass, leaving the dreaded blackthorn for OCV!
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 Devil's-bit Scabious seed on the MOD Otmoor rifle range
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 Collecting the sheep for tagging them
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 Cathy and a sheep
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 Building fencing in the car park
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 Before we started
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 On 6 TV
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 The finished hedge
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 The finished product.
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 Before the gate went in.
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 Sitting down for lunch
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 The view towards Oxford
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 Jamie digs a hole
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 Tamping in the support post
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 The Path before we started
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 The fire gets going
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 Another photo of the fire - were we obsessed?!
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 Controlling the reed growth to create some open water
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 Domino
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 Harry the horse
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