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Rita, Alan and Astrid working in the shade in the cemetery today (10 August 2025). Rita & Alan arrived early to find that the Rookley grave B68 had been disturbed again, conclusion is ‘Mr Badger’ is looking for worms! This was again put right by Alan while Rita took the ivy of the Goldie B60 […]

Astrid, Dave, Chris, Alan & Rita working in the cemetery today. All working in Section B & C doing a general clean up of overgrown graves, too many to mention them all. Astrid continued from last weeks work by weeding the remainder of the wild flower garden. Dave did a grand job cleaning out the

As thunder and lightning was forecast last week the team felt it would be safer to stay at home – back working in the cemetery today (27 July 2025) were Alan, Rita and Astrid. First task for Alan and Rita was to take out the stone chipping from the B68 Rookley grave, although black membrane

Another blistering hot day for Chris, Dave, Alan & Rita who were working in the cemetery today (13 July 2025). Alan and Chris dug out the small granite chipping from the Rookley B72 grave and took them over to the tap to clean. Quite difficult as Alan had forgotten to bring the sieve, but it

The whole team were in the cemetery today (6 July 2025), not all working but nice to get back together after a few weeks away. Alan & Rita were first to arrive and started to clear up the ivy that Alan had cut back from the pantomime walls a few weeks ago, this done Rita

Just Alan in the cemetery today (22 June 2025), Rita left at home to do the washing after 10 days on holiday in Spain. Alan thought he would pop in for a couple of hours. First job was to sort out the Cook grave A24 that had a number of weeds growing in and around

Just Chris was working in the cemetery today (15 June 2025). Some flowering plants had been donated by Dave. Two of these Hydrangea plants were planted around the wild flower meadows. Two small hebe plants were planted in section B, near the bay trees and fence. There are some special Budleigh plants sited near the

Friday 6 June 2025 Alan & Rita popped into the cemetery to drop of ballast that is needed to make up the concrete slab on the Stowell grave, hopefully to do this job on Sunday weather permitting. Visitors from Australia came in just after they arrived, Diane was looking for her 3 x grandmothers grave,

Thursday 29 May Alan spent a little time in the cemetery today to finish off a few jobs. The Commonwealth War Graves sign at the front of the cemetery had fallen off the fence, the plywood holding the plaque in position had totally disintegrated. Alan cut some new plywood at home and treated it with

Not so hot for working in the cemetery today (25 May 2025) with Chris, Alan, Rita and Astrid popping in for an hour to ensure we take a tea break! At the beginning of last week we were notified by the grass cutting team that an incident occurred while cutting the grass, one of the