Angels and demons

For our final session of Super Saturday, we gathered at York Cemetery. We bumped into David and Laura getting coffee en route and compared journeys (all having been deterred from getting to the Cycle Heaven cafe by the flooding meaning it wasn't on the way!)

We were met by Clive who gathered tools and pointed us in the direction of today's task, a specially-selected sheltered patch from the wind.

We were tasked with bramble-cutting, which we set about with gusto, armed with various tools. There was enthusiastic lopping galore of some fairly vicious brambles (and some shouts to get out the way as some particular large ones were prone to fighting back).

Quickly, it became apparent that we needed a system to gather said cut brambles so rakes were sought out and used to get the cuttings into bags to be transported to the compost area.

There was drama in both the lopping and gathering camps: - On the gathering side, Leanne accused James of drawing blood from her leg (we suspect it was a combination of the afore-mentioned brambles and the short leggings but who's to say?!) - Meanwhile, on the lopping side, we swiftly concluded that none of us would be able to win a fight with Stef over the last tin of beans in the event of a zombie apocalypse.

The loppers got so into their task that it was tricky to stop them, even after our allocated time was up. It felt like we made a big difference though, so thank you everyone. Now, time for a well-deserved rest before back to more of the same tomorrow!