A roundabout way of meeting Duck Norris

We gathered for a special early morning start for today's Community Mission helping the Bristol Butterfly Conservation group. We met Matt from BBC who firstly showed us his very own nature area including his celeb duck, Quackers, who thinks it's a chicken). Due to our pun background, we preferred the not chosen name of Duck Norris. Either way, he is one cool duck.

After this, we were given tools and Dave and Clo headed to a green space to rake all of the mown grass and move it. This allows the grass to stay nutrient-free which encourages wildflowers to grow. Between the two of them they covered a quarter of this massive area in just 45 minutes. Meanwhile, the rest of us headed to a mini-roundabout which had been sprayed by weed killer at the start of the year and all of the flowers in it had been killed. A few hardy wildflowers had now made a comeback and we wanted to help more of them to create a butterfly haven. We got to work digging up all of the poisoned soil, bagging it up and refreshing the area with compost. We then planted some new wild flowers which will seed and spread to make the area thrive once again. Although it was a small area, it was hard work and we just managed to lay the compost when our time was up. Job well done!