Well, a different kind of work. Since I went back to part-time paid desk work I have been able to return to active volunteer work with the Solway Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Volunteers. One of the local areas we work on is a group of ponds which were originally constructed for wildlife conservation/promotion from a car park which was no longer required when a replacement parking area was constructed near the beach.
It has changed quite a lot since I started working there several years ago.
We have not had a lot of rain in the last week or so and the watercourse were negligible. As it has not been possible to keep the ponds as open water – they tend to silt up and need a lot of maintenance – it has been decided to manage the area as wet woodland in future.
What we actually did this week was to replace some of the timbers forming the wheelchair-friendly footpath round the reserve.
