Monthly Archives: April 2018

On the 7th April, the interpretation board  for the Slabbering Baby could only be approached through a sea of mud.

This was reported to Steve Joul and I am pleased to report that on Friday the 20th April, Steve and a team of volunteers scraped off the mud around the interpretation board and filled the hollow with hard core.  They have made an excellent job of it.

So now you can learn all about the Slabbering Baby without having to get muddy!

Slabbering Baby interpretation board: 7 April 2018

Slabbering Baby interpretation board:  23 April 2018

The weather forecast for today was rain all morning. At 8 am it was beautiful with a clear sky.  At 10 am, when we met on Buckstone Road it was raining.  Nevertheless we had a good turnout of eight stalwart Friends.

We donned our hi-vis jackets and set off to work.  Our new jackets are great: they turn us into an efficient team (Norwich or Arsenal?), they advertise the Friends of Adel Woods, and they make us all visible from a distance – very handy for the management!

Two of us set off litter picking, and did a great job.

One of set off to clear mud from the area in front of the Slabbering Baby before joining the rest of the Friends on the moor to clear saplings and brambles.

The clearing of mud from the Slabbering Baby proved a difficult task.  It was not the quantity of the mud, so much as the fact that there was no hard surface to work to:  the risk was that in clearing mud, one was simply digging a big hole!  Providing a hard surface may be something which we focus on in coming months.

Up on the moor, the rain stopped and the Friends worked tirelessly and cleared many brambles.  

“Say not the struggle naught availeth, the labour and the wounds are vain.”

The Meanwood Trail: 7 April 2018