Alan and Rita went in the cemetery today (12 May 2026) as they missed going in on Sunday. When they arrived at the cemetery they found the Council Grass cutting team were in cutting the grass. The job today was to finish the Toms J15 grave and get the kerbs cemented back together, a job started several weeks ago and now hopefully finally get it finished today. It was a bit fiddly getting all the kerbs cemented together, but it worked well and all completed in a couple of hours. They then searched for some earth to lay around the grave to make it look neat and tidy, it took a while to find enough ant hills to dig up but got there in the end. All there is left to do is to level the top end with stone chipping.
While Alan was busy on the Toms grave, Rita worked close by so she could assist Alan when needed, she decided to cut back the base of the Euonymus tree nearby that Chris pointed out on Sunday. All the debris was stacked high by the side of the tree when she realised her sunglasses were missing, so instead of picking it all up to put in a dumpy bag she had to go through it all carefully to look for her sunglasses. She did find them but not amongst the debris, they were in her pocket. A full dumpy bag was taken over to the waste pile, tools were picked up and packed away.
Before they left Rita suggested to the Council work team that it would be nice to have another photo of them all, which they very kindly posed for on top of the base of the Non-Conformist Chapel. Let’s hope the photo comes out!
