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 Climbing Mount Fog
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 At the summit
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 Inigo flying his kite
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 Going to the pub
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 More juncus plantations
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 Great photo where no-one is looking
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 Happy path-maintainers at lunchtime
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 Lunch time
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 Lunch time
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 Scrub clearance
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 A tasty treat? (Please don't do this unless you really know what you're doing!)
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 Last winter's fire site, now colonised by bright green moss
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 Firewood from coppicing
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 Building a cordwood stack
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 View from the Folly
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 After siding-up
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 The hedge at the end of the day
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 One down....
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 A perfect cut - expert tree-felling
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 Nathalie demonstrating the art of rake leaning like a true OCV veteran
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 Rise and shine (the sun, that is.... not an OCVer in sight)
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 Ready for work. Now where did those tools go?
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 Finishing the gate and dead-hedge
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 Round the bonfire after a good days work
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 The pine candle was more popular than the camp fire!
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 Setting up
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 Well earned lunch break
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 All members as welcome, Pippa included
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 Sand drawing - which species of tree is this?
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 We don't just build walls, we also build the ancient treasures of Egypt
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 Happy wallers
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 Pouring the tea
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 Looking down the fenceline to the sea
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 Fencing posts
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 tea break
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 Packing up after a good day's work
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 Inigo in the sunshine
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 The Tackley Heath Pond
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 Starting work
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 Tea time
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 Newly created habitat pile
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 Pollarding
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 Pollarding completed
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 Putting in uprights for new platform
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 Newly extended ponds ready for the wildlife to move in
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 Pond creation
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 Hard at work
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 Training from an expert
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 OCV crack team of pond diggers, not put off by the scorching heat
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 Starting to extend the main pond, and create smaller ponds
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 Recent addition to Aston Rowant livestock
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 The queue for free pedicures grows as word gets out
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 Fortunately, we have not been asked to trim this chap's toenails
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 Entrance to the wood
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 Carrying the tubes that have been removed
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 How many OCVers does it take to build a stile?
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 Completed stile
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 The reason this is important
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 Tools of the trade
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 Volunteers keen to start
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 Starting a post hole
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 Post-bashing
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 Finishing off
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 Revetments ahoy!
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 Group photo on the finished boardwalk (don't forget to wipe your feet)
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 Preparing revetments
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 Sgwd-yr-Eira waterfall
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 Completed stone pitched culvert
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 Barbeque time
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 Some of the rubbish we collected
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 Habitat pile
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 A fine bonfire
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 Fen after clearing
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 Tea-making
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 Wetland after clearing
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 Cutting back the smaller dogwood
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 Warming bonfire
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 At work on the quarry site
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 Embers of the fire
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 Tea-making
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 Mutual support?
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 Skating makes your eyes go funny!
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 Kate is amazed at how ingenious brambles really are!
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 There's nothing left!
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 The results of an enthusiastic day of slashing, sawing and burning!
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 The council trailer fully loaded with rubbish and ready to go
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 Catherine from the Friends of the Trap Grounds
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 Tools talk
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 Craig, our expert fire builder!
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 More fire...
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 Completed section of hedge
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 Putting the finishing touches to the hedge
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 Counting tree rings
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 Santa's little helper
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 The weather was glorious
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 Starting work
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 Habitat pile made from wood moved off the flood plain
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 Cutting back the undergrowth to make way for fritillaries
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 The joy of Gripples
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 Packing up behind the completed fence
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 More happy volunteers
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 Gentian
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 Tea break
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 Before our work
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 Monkey strainers in all their glory
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 Chris and Jo preparing to strain wire
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 The end of a netting wire
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 Swanage Bay
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 Barbecue on the beach, Saturday night.
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 Naomi in front of the wall before we started work
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 New post positioned by string line
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 Straining post complete, ready for wire.
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 Pro-fencing team work on new straining post!
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 Tea break
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 Grass has been cut
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 Fighting their way through the grass
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 Starting to build the chestnut fence
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 A bit of planing and chiselling
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 Dismantling the old fence
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 Foxglove
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 Devil's-bit Scabious
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 Pyramidal Orchid
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 View out across the Vale of Aylesbury
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 We whittled our own pitchforks from the native brush...
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 Finished, stock-proof, post & wire fence section!
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 Line-wire straining the posts; stock netting laid out and ready to staple up and complete the barrier
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 Yellow Rattle
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 At the Storey Arms after a day's culvert clearing
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 Working our way down Corn Du for lunch at the obelisk
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 Human JCBs! - digging out drainage ditch and backfilling spoil on to the trail
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 Descent back down from worksite to basecamp
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 View south down valley from top of Pen Y Fan
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 Mallard's nest on the Dorn
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 You don't wanna do it like that...
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 Fence and gate construction
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 Passers-by beware!
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 Andy provides a cheesy grin
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 Clearing the fenceline ready for replacement fencing
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 Bonfire - plus rainbow!
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 All the old headstones are leaning at interesting angles
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 Michelle sneaks up behind Peter with loppers - fancy a haircut Peter?
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 Lunch break
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 Swarms of scrub bashers
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 "Friend of Watlington Hill"
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 Lovely warming bonfire (one of two)
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 Chris stacks logs to form a habitat pile
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 Pointing stakes
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 Tea time
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 Bonfire "B" was even bigger
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 Before
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 Mick's shiny new storm kettle
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 Cutting & collecting
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 The bonfire raged...
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 Brambles and ivy cleared from the headstones needed to be burnt
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 Conversation and drinks in the Turf
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 Mike makes a guest appearance
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 Cordwood stack
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 Dead-hedge deer-deterrant
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 Hazel stakes harvested for hedgelaying
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 This poor tree didn't stand a chance...
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 Local flock penned for hoof clipping
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 2 folk and a sheep
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 Flock released after clipping
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 A nice cup of tea.
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 Surveying the days work, the last task of 2007.
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 Looks like someone decided to recycle an old 70's shower curtain.
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 A fine specimen
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 Before starting work, we herded the sheep into a different field
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 This treestump was in a dangerous position and needed to be removed using some OCV muscle
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 Britwell Salome hedge starting view
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 Completed hedge section ready to regrow.
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 Cutting to the cores
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 Bonfire building
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 Tree with twisty vine growing into it
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 Coppicing
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 Fen raking in the sunshine
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 Teamwork
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 Hook Norton Cutting Crew
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 Clearing the slope for wildflowers
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| 7 More... |
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 Beating those Brambles
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 Young woodland of the new century
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 Hedgelaying work half complete
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 Camp
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 Camp fire
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 Camp
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 Job Done
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 Durlston
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 After work
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 Walling
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 Site when we arrived
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 Footpath section as we left it.
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 Footpath section as we found it.
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 New talent on the job
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 Post and rail under construction.
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 Old fence as we found it.
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 Second fence section
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| 2 More... |
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 First post
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 Completed gate 1
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 Boundary Brook bird feeder
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| 2 More... |
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 As featured in the Hanborough Herald!
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 Broadening the path
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 Path to Church Hanborough
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| 1 More... |
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 Climbing up the Craig Cerrig - it was actually sunny (for a while)
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 We had great views on our free day.
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 Out for a walk on our free day
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 Anyone for Chess?
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 OCV and the National Trust show their undying loyalty to Queen & Country
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 Our fearless task programmer
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 Dinner at base camp
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 Rob, the National Trust warden
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| 3 More... |
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 North path before
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 North path after
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 Cowslips & Forget-me-nots
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 Fencing with locally-cut material
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 Teamwork on the bowsaw
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 Crecy footpath at the point of completion
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 Crecy reserve from the top
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 Crecy Nature Reserve path
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| 1 More... |
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 How many OCVers does it take to build a stile?
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 Trees
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 Is that Jamie behind those twigs? No point in hiding from us. We will ALWAYS find you.
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 All we need is a guitar
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| 2 More... |
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 I see the light!
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| 3 More... |
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 An example Cotswold Pennycress (by Plantlife's consultant Judy Hart)
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 A vision of a fence. Top dollar.
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 Look, one of the worzels has escaped from the asylum
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 Giant wheel barrows
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 Sheep graze the coarse grass, leaving the dreaded blackthorn for OCV!
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 Cathy and a sheep
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 Collecting the sheep for tagging them
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 The stakes are then bound together
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 Jerome demonstrates hedgelaying
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 Group Photo
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 Before the gate went in.
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 The finished product.
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 Sitting down for lunch
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 The view towards Oxford
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 Loading the kiln with logs
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 Mick gets stuck in
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 Lunch by the river (day off)
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 Saturday afternoon - down the pub
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 Controlling the reed growth to create some open water
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 Harry the horse
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 Domino
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