A cloudy but quite bright day with a cold wind, Dave Chris and Alan working today (Sunday 16 February 2025). Both girls sending in their work sick notes, Astrid awaiting an operation on her knee, Rita with a trapped nerve in her back, plus a bad knee in sympathy with Astrid. It was planned to […]
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Alan, Astrid and Chris working in the cemetery today (Sunday 7 April 2024). Today the team worked in Plan 14 and started on Haines 14-5 grave, completely taken over by earth and grass with the two end kerbs broken. Due to recent rain the ground was really wet and sticky, the earth around the kerbs was
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Rita and Alan survey the small plaques in Plan 9, and tidy STOREY, SHAPTER, SYMES and MULLINS
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Last working day for this year. Full house with Astrid & Felix, Dave, Chris, Alan and Rita. Very damp day not good working weather as the ground and grass was so wet. Alan & Rita arrived a little earlier than usual giving Alan time to cement 2 small triangular pieces of kerb that were missing
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On Saturday Astrid walked through the cemetery with Parsley: Fine Memorials had been in and had made a great start to the Boulting and Norris memorials, while the pauper area is covered in pretty cranesbill.
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With the relaxing of Covid lockdown, permitting a household to go outside to exercise in March, Alan and Rita went into the cemetery. The first task was to pick up the neat piles of brambles and hedge cuttings from the hedge running along Jam Factory Lane which SDC workmen had cut down. 4 dumpy bags
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The weather forecast said it would be a fine sunny day today, so Alan, Rita and Astrid decided to go into the cemetery. After discovering an old photo that had in the background a view of the Non Conformist chapel, which has since been demolished, Rita wanted to take a photo from the same position
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