April 2023

Just Alan, Rita and Chris in the cemetery today (23 April 2023). First job was to work along the Pantomime wall area where buddleia saplings were planted last year by Roy Cheek. This area had been cordoned off with tape to remind the grass cutters where the saplings are planted. Over the winter the tape […]

Dave, Astrid, Alan, Rita and Chris working in the cemetery today (16 April 2023). After weeks of hard labour they felt they would have an easy day today. First job was to fold up and pack away the empty dumpy bags which S.D.C. kindly emptied for us. This done the team walked around the cemetery

Alan decided he would go into the cemetery today (13 April 2023) to complete some work on the Crocker and Newswag memorials, plus build up earth along the back fence of the house on the left of Wembdon Road as you enter the cemetery, to improve the appearance. First job was to clean the bottom

Friday 7 April A lovely sunny day (7 April 2023) and Alan decided to spent a few hours in the cemetery He started working on the Crocker 7-65 grave, which is almost completed. To prevent grass and weeds growing inside the grave he felt it needed a concrete slab to be added and to help

As it was such a lovely day (4 April 2023), Alan decided he would take Rita working in the cemetery today seeing as how she missed out on Sunday. She acted as his labourer but did manage to tidy up the Coombes and Bond graves 11-38 & 11-39 in between. They worked on the Crocker

Due to rain and wet weather no work was able to be done by the Friends for the past two weeks, but today (2 April 2023) the forecast was overcast with sunny periods – no sun! But it did not rain! Just Alan, Dave and Chris in today, the girls were busy with their grandchildren.