This last week, I’ve been working with more
of our fantastic volunteers. This time
it was a local Cumbrian group who come and work with me twice a year. We worked on the open-air site (the
amphitheatre) beside the shop.
They made serious inroads into some
time-consuming tasks. The section of
tree trunk that is being used in the amphitheatre has some fire damage and that
needs to be cleared off so that it can be used as seating. We’ve tried a few methods to do that and it
seems that a good old chisel might be the best answer because we do want the
trunk to retain its natural appearance.
This little area is rapidly becoming an
informal multi-purpose area. It was used
as an outdoor office one fine day recently when I met with one of my volunteers
to discuss a project. We usually have
those meetings in our Trust offices in Borrowdale but the amphitheatre was a
very agreeable alternative. And I could
carry on chiselling the tree trunk!
Later in the week, I went over to the
Buttermere area to help out a fellow ranger Mark with a new walk. He was taking out a school group that
included a wheel-chair user. I was able
to borrow a wheel-chair from the Calvert Trust which specialises in providing
outdoor experiences to those with impaired mobility.
In this case, the user was an inspiring
young woman who was determined to walk if she possibly could. She used the wheelchair only over particularly
rough ground or on steep slopes. Where
necessary the chair was roped up and members of her group hauled it. It was a good day. Good to see different ways that my colleagues
work and good to see how the group worked together so that everyone could have
a great day enjoying the outdoors.
It’s Daisy:
I like hammocks. You jump in and out and in and out and in and
out ...! Roy doesn’t like hammocks when
I’m jumping in and out.
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