2024 Diary

Saturday 4 May 2024 It was such a nice day (4 May 2024) Alan decided to go into the cemetery to prepare the Edwards grave kerb stones ready to cement back together. The landing had sunk in the middle which meant the broken long marble kerbs had to be packed level for support, using slate […]

Although wet weather was forecast it turned out to be quite a nice day (28 April 2024). Chris, Dave and Alan working today. Alan arrived early and put two wheelbarrows of earth in the Badger grave 14-19 he had just finished when Chris and Dave arrived. Alan replaced the broken pieces of concrete slab back

A nice day to day (23 April 2024) with rain forecast for the next week so Alan & Rita decided to pop in the cemetery for a couple of hours to work off some of the weight they put on after their few days away. They worked on levelling the kerbstones of the Badger grave

Full house today (21 April 2024), Alan & Rita were first to arrive and thought they would take off the ivy growing on one of the holly trees at the front of the cemetery as there seemed to be more ivy than holly. Rita and Astrid worked at the front of the cemetery taking off

As it was a nice day and he had not been in the cemetery on Sunday as taking a short holiday, Alan decided he should spend a few hours working in the cemetery (18 April 2024). Rita said she was far too busy! The team had uncovered the Pippin grave 14-8 Plot 26 on Sunday,

Only Chris Dave and Astrid today (14 April 2024). We again worked in Plan 14. The graves worked on today were J PIPPIN d 1914; M PIPPIN plan 14 no 26; BURGE plan 14 no 81; M SHARKEY d 1936; WJ SHARKEY d 1950 plan 14 no 71. Each of which had been taken over

Alan, Rita, Dave, Astrid and Chris all arrived at the cemetery on time – no one forgot to put their clocks forward (31 March 2024). Turned out to be quite a nice day the sun shone and not one drop of rain! Just before Chris arrived the girls were asked by Alan and Dave to

Full house, Chris, Dave, Astrid, Alan and Rita all working hard in the cemetery today (24 March 2024). A bit chilly to start with but soon warmed up when we started working and coats were off when the sun came out! Astrid and Rita working in the front of the cemetery and cleared all the

Just Alan and Dave working in the cemetery today (Sunday 17 March) a nice sunny day but pretty wet underfoot. A few weeks ago the neighbours in Wembdon Road had very kindly started to cut back the ‘new hedge’, so today Alan decided before it started shooting out he would finish the job with the