Holding all the (wood)chips

Moorlands Gardens had just had a large delivery of woodchip arrive so we arrived on the morning after the storm to help spread it on the walkways around the gardens. The weather was surprisingly ok and the gardens were in great shape considering how other parks in the area had been affected by storm Eunice!

When we arrived, we had a quick briefing from Grant before splitting into 2 main teams: Tilly and Tom on bramble-clearing and everyone else on woodchip wheelbarrowing.

The pile of woodchip didn't seem to be going down at all for the first 30-40 minutes but sure enough, after just over an hour it had all been spread! The bramble-clearers had a tough job as it was much more overgrown than we initially thought, though we managed to discover a whole section of wooden decking that clearly hadn't been used in a long time!

As we were packing up and leaving, it started raining as if the weather was holding out for us the whole time. What great timing and thanks everyone for braving the post-storm mission!

Thanks to Dawn for the pun, which had to be explained to me (face palm)