2024

Alan, Rita, Dave, Astrid and Chris all arrived at the cemetery on time – no one forgot to put their clocks forward (31 March 2024). Turned out to be quite a nice day the sun shone and not one drop of rain! Just before Chris arrived the girls were asked by Alan and Dave to

Full house, Chris, Dave, Astrid, Alan and Rita all working hard in the cemetery today (24 March 2024). A bit chilly to start with but soon warmed up when we started working and coats were off when the sun came out! Astrid and Rita working in the front of the cemetery and cleared all the

Just Alan and Dave working in the cemetery today (Sunday 17 March) a nice sunny day but pretty wet underfoot. A few weeks ago the neighbours in Wembdon Road had very kindly started to cut back the ‘new hedge’, so today Alan decided before it started shooting out he would finish the job with the

With the weather forecast predicting no rain today (Wednesday 13 March 2024), Alan decided it was a good time to go in the cemetery to finish off the Rossiter N24 grave. The missing corner of the inner slab was filled with concrete with a drainage hole made to allow the rain water to flow through.

Friday 8 March Alan went to the cemetery today as the weather was fine. Rita & Alan had an enquiry from a family looking for their grandfathers resting place. This was found but sadly there were no markers, luckily just in front of the grave space there was a grave with kerbs and name (Annie

A double diary for Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 February 2024 Saturday 10 February Alan decided to go into the cemetery to work on the Rossiter N24 grave. The landing beams supporting the kerbs and posts had been pushed out of position and the joints broken apart. The task today was to manoeuvre the beams

Alan, Rita, Astrid, Dave and Chris D. in the cemetery today (4 February 2024). Nice to have Chris back working with us. The girls were trimming low branches from a large fir tree, filling a dumpy bag, they then moved over to the large bramble bush on the North end of the cemetery and started

Monday 29 January Today Alan went in the cemetery and worked on the Blackmore grave 13.2 started a few days ago. The kerbs and posts were cemented back together, the centre slab that had pieces missing was repaired with concrete. Before he left for home he cleaned the green chipping for the Greenslade/Durant grave. Thursday

The team were back (well most of them) and raring to get stuck into some work (or exercise as they like to say!) – Sunday 28 January 2024 Alan & Rita were first to arrive followed within seconds by Astrid with Felix and Dave. Rita and Astrid decided they would start work at the front