Yesterday the rain was torrential. But the weather forecast for today was for a fine morning. It was therefore a bit disappointing, when the alarm went off at 7.45 am and we looked out of the bedroom window to see heavy sleet. Your correspondent therefore decided to wait until after breakfast before loading the car up!
Surprisingly, by ten am the weather had brightened considerably, and eight Friends (including your correspondent) arrived for the work “party”. Two of us chose to litter pick and the rest of us to clear paths.
Our first path was the one that runs diagonally up from Crag Lane into Alwoodley Plantation.
From there we crossed the Plantation towards the Hospice Woodland.
Coming out of the Plantation, we came to a large waterlogged area and indulged our boyish enthusiasm for playing with mud and water to create a channel to allow the water to drain.
Having created a drainage channel, which allowed water to drain freely, we went up to the ridge on the way to the Hospice Woodland, and indulged our boyish enthusiasm to create another drainage channel!
We had a limited brief at the Hospice Woodland – to clear the brambles and bracken covering the daffodils which are already starting to emerge from the ground, and to clear some of the undergrowth around the trees.
By now it was 12 and we made our way back to the carpark – pausing only to admire our earlier handiwork and watch the water draining freely along our little canal.
Friends of Adel Woods 