A beautiful morning. We met in the Stairfoot Lane carpark with a group of about five or six people from Litter Free Adel.
While the litter pickers set off along Stairfoot Lane, six of us set off to work on the Hospice Woodland.
In the Hospice Woodland we have been clearing brambles from the young trees, and we have also been thinning out the trees under the guidance of Steve Joul, ranger with Leeds City Council.
The work we have been doing over previous years has clearly been helpful because the areas we have worked on were still very clear. Today we concentrated on areas to the north of the woodland (near Stairfoot Lane) and to the south. Our aim is simply to clear the brambles from the trees while leaving areas of brambles to provide cover for nesting birds and small mammals.
Finishing work at 12 we returned to the car park and three of us set off up Stairfoot Lane to remove a fallen birch tree which was threatening to slide onto the carriageway.
Victory over the tree trunk! 
Having removed it we we returned to the car park with an old tyre and a plastic drum which had been dumped in the field.
We placed these with the large amount of litter collected by our gallant team of litterpickers.
Friends of Adel Woods 