2025 Diary

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 […]

Although the team have not carried out in the cemetery for a few weeks some of the team could not keep away and went in for a walk around (21 December 2025). Chris has been in and picked up two bags of litter and notified Alan and Rita that there had been movement on the

Just Alan and Rita in the cemetery today (30 November 2025) and a nice surprise to see that the grass cutting team had been in and cut the grass for us. Thank you ‘boys’ much appreciated.  It was a frosty start so Alan & Rita worked in the sunshine and soon warmed up. They started

Alan and Rita arrived early in the cemetery and were joined by Astrid later in the morning. First job was to clear the pathway outside the cemetery of all the leaves fallen from the two large trees growing at the front of the cemetery, then while Alan finished off, Rita picked up most of the

The rain has stopped at last, Astrid, Alan and Rita set to work in the cemetery today (16 November 2025), a bit chilly but they soon warmed up.  Before Astrid arrived, Alan and Rita took 2 full dumpy bags over to join the rest of the rubbish bags, on their way they picked up quite a

Alan went to the cemetery on his own as Rita was still working on Carnival events (2 November 2025). The weather forecast was sun with heavy showers; he left in sunshine with the task of finishing work on the Gray grave. Alan was not happy with the row of bricks he had placed in the

Two diaries for the end of October 2025. Alan & Rita were unable to work in the cemetery on Sunday, they had got ready, the car was packed up and all ready to go but the car wasn’t! The car battery died so had to call out the recovery company that took several hours to

As the weather forecast for Sunday looks like rain, Alan and Rita decided to make a quick visit to the cemetery today to cement the kerbs back on the Gray grave B31. All completed now and a photo was taken. They also swept up the large amount of leaves that had fallen around the front

Another productive day (12 October 2025) in the cemetery with just Alan and Dave working hard on the Gray grave B31. This grave is in very poor condition, the two long kerbs are broken and the centre concrete slab broken in many pieces and sunk in the middle. The first job was to remove the

Working in the cemetery today (5 October 2025) were Alan, Dave, Astrid and Michael. The boys concentrated on the Davey B24 grave, the first job was to cement the kerbs and posts back together which went well. The stone chippings that were removed were washed, black membrane was laid down inside the grave, and the