York

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Lovely weather for fish(ponds wood)

11 GoodGymers made their way to help the Friends of Fishponds Wood in York.

  • Michal Czekajlo
  • York runner
  • York runner
  • York runner
  • Nicola Gover
  • John Bourton
  • York runner
  • York runner
  • York runner
  • Vicky Hearson
  • Amy Woollard
 
Friday, 4th of December 2020
 
Led by Nicola Gover

Despite the weather outside being frightful, the delightful GG Yorkies still turned out en masse for the friends of Fishponds Wood and CYC. Perhaps they had heard there would be sawing, lopping and general destruction available to keep them warm? It certainly warmed me up after a cold morning mission!

I just about managed to get a "before" picture before the hoardes descended on the patch of trees that needed chopping down or severely pruning. In classic GG style a team of ambitious wannabe lumberjacks set to the biggest trees first and soon there was many a cry of "timber!" and "you might want to leave more than a 2 metre gap for this bit!"

Meanwhile those who couldn't get into the Danger Zone cut and trimmed the trees to sensible sizes and dragged or carried them down to the ever growing wildlife pile.

In no time at all the patch was cleared and the neighbour's house was no longer overshadowed (they also very kindly brought us tea mid-task). A quick photo by our handiwork and job done, leaving plenty of time for some of us to go for a lovely muddy woodland and bog run 🙂

Report written by Nicola Gover


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