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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 […]

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

No work last Sunday due to rain, but luckily although cold the forecast was no rain yesterday or today (2 February 2025), giving a little time to dry up the ground. Although still muddy underfoot it wasn’t too bad and Dave, Alan, Rita and Astrid (supervising) were pleased to see on their arrival in the

Friday 17 January 2025 As Rita had a meeting in Bridgwater, Alan decided to go in the cemetery to continue working on the fallen trees large root that had been pushed up into the air and lifting the neighbours wooden fence. Between the fallen tree and fence was a mound of tree debris, the job

Chris, Dave, Alan and Rita working in the cemetery today (12 January 2025), thankfully the temperature is rising after the last week of hard frost and today the sun is shining. Although pretty muddy underfoot. Today’s task is to pick up what we can of the branches and twigs that have fallen to the ground

Alan and Rita went in the cemetery today (29 December 2024) as we received a message from Chris that the occupants had gone from the cemetery and left a considerable amount of rubbish and mess behind. Photos were taken and then the clean up started. They bagged up tents, groundsheets, curtains, blankets, loads of clothing

Dave, Alan, Chris and Rita in the cemetery today (15 December 2024). Quite wet underfoot but the sun did manage to pop out and keep us warm while work commenced. Today was a clearing up job, the boys got stuck in and dug out the kerbs and posts of the Hodge grave 13-53 that the

Chris, Alan, Rita and Astrid in the cemetery mid morning (8 December 2024) to survey the damage after storm Darragh passed through Somerset yesterday. A neighbour kindly sent a photo of a fallen tree to our chairman who forwarded it to the Friends, but Chris braved the winds and went in the cemetery in the

Full house today (1 December 2024) and the sun was shining. Dave, Alan, Chris, Rita and Astrid in the cemetery today. Although Astrid unable to help out yet it was nice to see her and have a chat while we had our tea break. It was agreed the team would concentrate in section E started