Rescuing hollies and people.



Transplanting hollies.

 This week I was working with a team of volunteers in Great Wood.  There is a lot of regenerated vegetation in the wood.  We have too many hollies in a small area and they won’t thrive so they need to be thinned out.  Transplanting some will allow the rest to thrive.  We are working with the Keswick in Bloom group and the Derwentwater Foreshore Project (check out www.foreshoreproject.com for details).  Rather than buying in plants for the foreshore project, they can have free plants that are genetically suited to the valley. 

Rosthwaite

My weekend was mainly taken up with mountain rescue activities.  On Saturday I was in Penrith meeting up with the National Mountain Rescue Teams’ rope-work display team which I’m coordinating.  We ran through what we’ll do at the NEC in three weeks time at the outdoor show - finalised what we’ll do and how we’ll do it.   Sunday began with a visit to the rescue team base to meet a lovely lady who had given £200 to the team in memory of her late husband.  We showed her around the base.  In the afternoon we were called out to Catbells to rescue a lady who had broken her lower leg – bread and butter for us but very stressful for her.  It was good to be able to alleviate her discomfort and package her up for a safe trip to hospital.