Dave, Michael, Chris and Alan in the cemetery with Astrid and Felix visiting (13 April 2025). Alan was busy cementing the kerbs of the Hawkes 9-7 grave back together, the grave he worked on last week, now completed. Alan and Chris worked together on the red granite Hill grave 9-9 taking apart, cleaning off the […]
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A lovely sunny day for Chris, Dave, Alan and Rita working in the cemetery today (6 April 2025), with Astrid and Felix popping in to supervise and have a chat. Chris and Dave worked on the Chick, Hall and Hodgson graves 13-11, 13-12, and 13-13 cleaning off he weeds, grass and ivy. Leaving the pine
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As the forecast was for a warm and sunny day (2 April 2025), Alan decided he would go in the cemetery to cement the kerbs and posts on the Daw grave back in place following the work the team did on Sunday. It was not long before the kerbs were back in position followed by
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A lovely surprise when Alan, Dave and Rita entered the cemetery today (30 March 2025) – the grass had been cut! We are very grateful that this has been done earlier than usual before it had grown too long. so thank you to the town council team, much appreciated. Also a big thank you for
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No rain, or very little, forecast for today (23 March 2025) so not a day off as expected! Dave, Alan and Rita working today, a bit chilly and grey cloud but better than rain. The daffodils and primroses at the front of the cemetery make a lovely picture. Rita carried on working on the boundary
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As the team had a weekend off on Sunday and the weather forecast for this Sunday suggested it would rain, Alan decided to go in the cemetery today, a nice sunny 20 degrees (Thursday 20 March). He decided to sieve the earth and green glass chippings dug out from graves a couple of weeks ago,
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As it was a nice sunny day on Wednesday and no forecast of rain Alan went in the cemetery and cemented the Hodge 13/53 kerbs and posts back together, this is the grave that was up rooted by the fallen tree. In the cemetery today(9 March 2025) were, Chris, Dave, Rita, Alan, Astrid came in
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Chris, Dave, Alan and Rita in the cemetery today (2 March 2025), cold and frosty on arrival, too cold to do cementing, so decided to stay in the sun and trim back brambles and clean ivy off graves in plan 9. Within an hour everyone was sweating in the heat! Alan and Rita got stuck
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A cloudy but quite bright day with a cold wind, Dave Chris and Alan working today (Sunday 16 February 2025). Both girls sending in their work sick notes, Astrid awaiting an operation on her knee, Rita with a trapped nerve in her back, plus a bad knee in sympathy with Astrid. It was planned to
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A cold but sunny morning, Alan, Dave and Chris in the cemetery today (9 February 2025). The first job was to re-assemble the Hodge 13-53 grave completely broken apart when a large tree was blown down by the high winds 5 or 6 weeks ago. Two pads were left in position and intact, the two
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