Thursday 4/12/25  It was a cold rainy day so Eddie lit the fire and we had tea in the wagon before starting work. We noticed the river level is higher this week, there is more water behind the water wheel.

Our first job was sorting out the visitor centre loft, I went up and passed things down to Eddie, there were two wooden boxes which we'll convert into bird nest boxes. There were also lots of buckets and storage tubs which we put in the compound. I put metal and plastic stakes in the pallet which forms the compound wall, this keeps them tidy. 

I also put chairs from the visitor centre in the compound under black material to keep them clean, this gives much more space in the visitor centre which I used to split pallet wood for kindling with the log splitter, Eddie used an axe outside to split some as well, which gave us two large tubs of kindling which we put in the wagon to dry.

We had hot sausage rolls again for lunch in the warmth of the wagon. In the afternoon Eddie logged up the branches which were cut from a tree to make room for the compound and I put them in the new logstore we made last week along with some of the logs stored outside which Eddie brought over.

We covered the rest of the outside logs with black material to keep them dry until there is room for them in a logstore. We then filled up the bird feeders. When we got back to The Maltings we saw a heron fly up into a tree.

Graham Bartlett  

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