Baby its cold outside

 

That Mr. Carter was in a mischievous mood this morning.

Back to the same site as last week, but I am avoiding the obvious Smiths song and trying to stick with Christmas tunes.

It was cold wet and dreary, but we still planted 530 trees. I think that was our most impressive effort so far this season

We were: myself, Philip, Dave, Geoff, Tanya, Tania, Jared, Emma, Connie, Helen, Kayleigh, Jess, Lee, Dianne, Peter, Richard, Max, Sue, Jon, Tessie, John H., Hap, Remy, Matthew, Michael, Stephen, Cath, and Ben.

Trees planted were: 75 downy birch, 75 hawthorn, 125 sweet chestnut, 125 pedunculate oak, 50 field maple, 75 bird cherry, and 5 crab apple.

https://youtu.be/0DDaG6ayJPg

Last month of the year

 

Back to Marsden, to complete some of the areas now that we have our full palette of varieties to work with.

We were: myself, Philip, Dave, Geoff, Max, Tania, Jared, Remy, Michael, Jake, Matthew, John F., John H., Jon plus Holly the dog, Dianne, Jess, Lee, Julia, David, Stephen, Richard, Hap, Sophie, Peter, Laura, Kayleigh, and Ben the photographer (special guest).

We planted 70 dog rose, 85 rowan, 95 downy birch, 25 sweet chestnut, 75 sessile oak, 100 beech and 60 hawthorn. 

I am going to try and shoehorn in some Christmas tunes over the next few weeks.

https://youtu.be/eWXi-2-8Ud0

Talk talk

Jared working hard

 Back at Marsden, planting 125 small leaved lime, 200 sessile oak, and 50 yew. 

The promised fog was usurped by a steady light rain.

We were: myself, Geoff, Hap, Dave, Philip, Cath, Peter, Jared, Tania, Jon, Kayleigh, Laura, Ben, Remy, Matthew, Dianne, Ben and Julia, Richard, Stephen, Jess, Lee, Jo, Tanya and Sophie.

Our star volunteers this week were Hap, Jess, and Sophie.

Lockdown does seem to be making the workers chatty though, so...

https://youtu.be/6hHnOBlwU3A

The sound of the crowd

 

People take up a lot of space 2m apart (any bunching is household groups)

Another outstanding turnout: myself, Geoff, Hap, Philip, Sophie, Dave, Stephen, Steve, Helen, Connie, Kayleigh, Laura, Jon, Tessie, Ben, Kati, Matthew, Michael, Jake, Julia, Peter, Tania, Jared, Lee, Cath, Richard, Tanya, John, and Remy. I may have missed someone off the list, let me know if so.

I need to go out this week and buy more tools!

We planted: 140 field maple, 30 downy birch, 15 rowan, 50 holly, 75 hazel, 45 crab apple, 50 blackthorn, 15 hawthorn. 420 total.

https://youtu.be/9CJFk7LZa5A