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 Entrance to the wood
 Carrying the tubes that have been removed
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 How many OCVers does it take to build a stile?
 Completed stile
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 Starting a post hole
 Post-bashing
 Finishing off
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 Finished boardwalk
 Waiting to test the new drainage
 Teamwork: Attaching the wire netting.
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 Men lighting a barbecue
 Chopping firewood at the basecamp
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 Some of the rubbish we collected
 Habitat pile
 Job done!
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 Fen after clearing
 Building habitat piles and burning brash
 Base camp
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 Cutting back the smaller dogwood
 Warming bonfire
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 Lunchtime
 Embers of the fire
 Michael hard at work at the fire site
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 Finishing work for the day...
 No tree can resist such a good effort!
 No scrub left after OCV has been there...
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 Mike is proudly wearing his new ocv tshirt and has discovered a new way to make tea
 Council van
 Catherine from the Friends of the Trap Grounds
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 Craig, our expert fire builder!
 Our new OCV tree!
 More fire...
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 Putting the finishing touches to the hedge
 Completed section of hedge
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 Lunch time
 This cord wood is being piled up, dried out and will be used for burning or maybe making charcoal.
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 Santa's little helper
 Group photo
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 Starting work
 Something was already growing in the habitat pile
 4 men went to mow
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 Happy volunteers
 The completed fence
 Packing up behind the completed fence
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 Tea break
 Before our work
 Volunteers at work on the hillside
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 The end of a netting wire
 Monkey strainers in all their glory
 New fence completed, allowing hedge to expand.
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 Swanage Bay
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 BBQ!
 A jovial looking Chris.
 Barbecue on the beach, Saturday night.
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 New post positioned by string line
 Straining post complete, ready for wire.
 Pro-fencing team work on new straining post!
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 Tea break
 Everyone hard at work at the gathering-up stage
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 Errected chestnut fence
 Chiselled chestnut fence joint
 Basecamp...home for a few nights
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 Dismantling the old fence
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 Foxglove
 English Stonecrop (close-up!)
 Sheep's-Bit
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 Pyramidal Orchid
 Devil's-bit Scabious
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 After work on the steps, with a new bit of rivetment
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 Trainer Brian tying off the wire at straining post
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 Chris 'The Verifier' Skepper - keepin' it right 'n' exact..
 Straining post now ready to take the strain...
 Dismantling the old fence
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 Woodland footpath down to waterfalls on day off
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 A culvert unblocking team at work, with Corn Du in the background
 Liz & Naomi clearing one of the final culverts.
 Peaty pond near the obelisk; Corn Du
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 Digging new drainage ditches along footpath
 Human JCBs! - digging out drainage ditch and backfilling spoil on to the trail
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 The finished fence, gate and stile from the inside
 The finished fence, gate and stile from the outside
 Fence and gate construction
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 Clearing the fenceline ready for replacement fencing
 Andy provides a cheesy grin
 Passers-by beware!
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 All the old headstones are leaning at interesting angles
 Michelle sneaks up behind Peter with loppers - fancy a haircut Peter?
 Bonfire - plus rainbow!
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 Swarms of scrub bashers
 Lunch break
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 "Friend of Watlington Hill"
 Much tree growth had been cut back to stop the forest taking over the ancient pathway
 Andy makes cordwood
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 The end result...
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 The perfect stool - arf arf!
 Pointing stakes
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 Before
 Cutting & collecting
 Big bonfire
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 The bonfire raged...
 Volunteers survey their handiwork as the bonfire dies down
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 Mike makes a guest appearance
 Conversation and drinks in the Turf
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 Hazel stakes harvested for hedgelaying
 Dead-hedge deer-deterrant
 Cordwood stack
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 This poor tree didn't stand a chance...
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 Miranda brandishing stock spray
 Local flock penned for hoof clipping
 A woolly captive
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 A nice cup of tea.
 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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 This treestump was in a dangerous position and needed to be removed using some OCV muscle
 Before starting work, we herded the sheep into a different field
 A fine specimen
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 Cutting to the cores
 Britwell Salome hedge starting view
 Jamie demonstrates pleaching technique
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 Bonfire building
 Tree with twisty vine growing into it
 Coppicing
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 Fen raking in the sunshine
 Teamwork
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 OCV's 30th birthday cakes!
 Clearing the slope for wildflowers
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 Beating those Brambles
 Young woodland of the new century
 Hedgelaying work half complete
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 Back at base, improvised table tennis
 Durlston
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 Site when we arrived
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 Footpath section as we found it.
 Group preparing to depart
 A swinging time
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 Post and rail under construction.
 Second fence section
 Old fence as we found it.
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 Boundary Brook bird feeder
 First post
 Completed gate 2
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 As featured in the Hanborough Herald!
 Broadening the path
 Jim carrying a spade incorrectly!
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 Climbing up the Craig Cerrig - it was actually sunny (for a while)
 Out for a walk on our free day
 We had great views on our free day.
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 The Henrhyd waterfall
 Anyone for Chess?
 What a jovial bunch of people
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 Dinner at base camp
 The badger, of course
 Our fearless task programmer
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 Cowslips & Forget-me-nots
 Westward view
 North path before
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 Fencing with locally-cut material
 Teamwork on the bowsaw
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 Crecy Nature Reserve path
 Crecy footpath at the point of completion
 Crecy reserve from the top
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 All we need is a guitar
 More trees
 Trees
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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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 The best wall I've ever seen. Well, I did build it. Im so modest.
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 Hello, my name is Shaun. Baaaaaaa!
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 Standing around the fire
 Baked potatoes are a regular fixture of the last task before Christmas
 More sheep
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 Group Photo
 Using the pole saw on an awkward bit
 MC with a yorkshire billhook
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 Before the gate went in.
 The finished product.
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 Sitting down for lunch
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 The view towards Oxford
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 The completed Tern rafts
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 The smoke gets a touch out of hand!
 The river estuary
 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
 Domino
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