Chris, Alan & Rita working in the cemetery today (17 May 2026), with a visit from Astrid who joined us for our tea break then set to work over in the wildflower garden where she planted a foxglove an honesty and a ajunga, she had to dig up a lot of weeds before she could do this. Well done Astrid, hopefully it won’t be long before she can join us full time. Nice to see her progressing so well.
Alan & Rita arrived early and uncovered the protection put on the Toms grave cemented kerbs completed on Tuesday, cut black membrane and put around the top of the grave and filled with chippings. J15 now completed. Photo taken. Chris then joined us and all helped fill in a large hole made by Mr Badger, hopefully he will not dig here again.
The team looked over at Section 6 and could see several graves where ivy had encroached over them, so a view photo was taken and they set about starting to clear some of them. First one they attacked was the Stowell 6-32 where ivy had covered the holly tree stump between the grave and the Britton 6-31 grave next to it.
Then, Alan & Chris started on the Bouchier grave 6-11 while Rita tidied up around the Stowell, then moved over to help Chris on the Bouchier while Alan had started on the Pole 6-27 grave and they all finished up working on this grave. This done it began to look a bit dark and threatening, the tools were packed up and the boys took the filled dumpy bag up to the dumping pile, then went over to where Astrid was working. The black cloud missed us so Rita then started on the Harris 6-28 grave, Astrid headed for home, the boys joined Rita and another dumpy bag was half filled and placed under nearby tree as now we knew this next black cloud would not miss us this time! We managed to get the cars packed before getting too wet, another useful day.
