I did my second volunteering day at The Kingcombe Centre on Monday. I had great fun doing odd jobs about the place. Stop a door from jamming on the frame. Put up 10 “Please close the gate” signs. Weave more hazel branches into posts for the compost area. Dismantle a tree guard and recover the timber. Build a couple of shelves in the workshop. Add some lower bars to two gates to stop the sheep escaping. Mow around the garden area where I had previously mowed and also the paths. Trim some over grown plants off the path. Move chippings back up the access drive way to the overflow car park. They had a few sheep turning up to help turn an area into a meadow. This meant I had to jump to the sorting the gates promptly. This was unforeseen, but the fella who’s sheep they were said that […]
WSP UK allows/encourages it’s employees to take two days a year to carry out volunteering activates for local charities. I chose to take my two days to work for Dorset Wildlife Trust at The Kingcombe Centre. I did some grass cutting and then a little light DIY work during my day there. I really enjoyed being outside and doing some real work. I should have taken some more after pictures, I got plenty of before photos.
On my way to do my volunteering day at the Kingcombe Center, I thought I would take a more direct route that might be fun. The lane was very scratchy from the beginning to over half way. I will not be doing this one very often, although the bottom most part of the lane was fun and pretty clear. I had to cut back a few branches to get through easily. I may return one evening and do some more significant clearing.
We went to Chickerell Steam and Vintage Show at the weekend. I really enjoyed it. I think we all had fun actually.
We managed to see about 70 World War Two vehicles come through Dorchester. I only took a few photos. I could easily have spent all afternoon there looking at them. The tracked vehicles made a fair mess of the tarmac/asphalt on the corner. There were bits of broken up road surface in the road and new pot holes. Pretty impressive to see and there was a really nice atmosphere there.
I spent a few hours clearing the undergrowth and the rubbish /cuttings and soil from the drainage ditch that runs along the back edge of the garage building last weekend. I did not get a before photo, but it was very full of stuff. I now need to do some digging at the far end to remove a lot of stone and soil from the ditch.
I happened to be up the Church tower yesterday, setting up for the teddy bear zip line. I took a few pictures I though might be worth sharing. If you look really closely at the hill, Castle Hill that is, you can just about make out the Jubilee Beacon pile of fire material (Bottom right photo).
I went for a drive the other day and came back along this lane. These two videoa
I was given a cactus growing kit for Christmas, which stated that they needed 18°C to grow. So hence only now getting to it. First it was a case of adding water to the soil, they expended into something more recognisable as compost or peat. The seeds were mostly microscopic, and quite hard to plant “one seeds depth deep”. The instructions stated that cacti are slow growing so be patient.
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