Wednesday was a truly miserable day weather-wise so we decided to postpone it till today which turned out to be a very good idea. The plan was to secure the other droppers as well and put the shade cloth on for the windbreak. It all worked out quite well and this is the result: I […]

Went out today with the sole purpose of stringing the wires for the windbreak. I had made a nifty gadget to tighten the wires and it worked so well it lifted the poles out of the ground so it turned out to be a bit of a disaster. It did not make me a happy

Moving Proteas to the platform before very Open Day is a schlepp and it would be much easier to move them earlier and also straight from the shade house. Two problems, water and wind. The first one was solved a little while ago when the I managed to open the rusted stopcock of the water

A mixed group from Woodridge and Eton College came to give us a hand today with some of the things we would have liked to do but didn’t have time for. We split them in three groups of eight. Rob and Keith were in charge of the Podylaria assault. Ellie took the Eton rugby team

The past few months I have not only been busy building the bird hide but also got some more grey hairs programming an interface for our weather station to the internet. Last week it was installed in the Fovs room and today it was time to mount it outside. So far it is working well

Ellie decided a while ago that it would be a good idea to fix the ride on mower which has been languishing for about five years in the shed with a broken engine. She used her charms on the various committee members to get them to agree and this is the result: Tony does not

Finally all the pieces of the hide were ready to be taken to the Reserve and assembled. First though we had to choose a place and after much debate we settled on the dam wall near the Lily Pond as from there one has very good all round views and there are even some birds

The last few postings have been a bit short on detail about the bird hide so I thought it might be nice to put it all together even though some of it has been covered before. It all started on the 6th of March when we went to the Arboretum and saw the devastation the

After all the bird hide activities of the past few weeks it was now time to get back to business as usual First we had wanted to use the monthly meeting to bring some order into the nursery but the weather made that quite an unpleasant option with a cold breeze blowing across the field.

We were quite keen to erect the bird hide so two days after doing the base we were on our way again with a new load of bits and pieces. On arrival at the Reserve we found a few groups of visitors looking lost so first gave them the usual story about the Reserve and