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With less than two weeks to go, a good training ride of 57-miles yesterday into in a 15-mile headwind for the first part of the ride. So very glad to stop at Lacock Dairy for ice cream for a break on the way home on 3rd July. See our Just Giving page – we’re now over £16,000 which is amazing – but still time to support if you would like to. 🙂
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With just over two weeks to go until the Charity bike ride, we are now up over £13,000 on our Just Giving page below. We are fundraising for Salisbury District Hospital Stars Appeal. All is detailed in the link below. Andy, Alistair and I are riding with others !!
The background from William: “My wife, Sarah, was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in late 2022 and, while sitting in Salisbury Hospital one grey and damp January morning, I read through the list of companies and individuals who had donated to the Breast care unit to provide a calm and peaceful atmosphere for treatment with a dedicated team of nurses. The care Sarah received from them throughout was faultless.
Any donations or sponsorship will be greatly appreciated. Our Just Giving page may be found here,
Thank you.
You may have heard William Warden speaking early this morning (Wed 28 June) on BBC Radio Wiltshire about Giant Hogweed.
Some background on this plant from the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust: “Giant hogweed is an invasive weed of riverbanks, where it prevents native species from growing. It was introduced into the UK by the Victorians as an ornamental plant for lakesides and gardens. It escaped into the wider countryside and gained notoriety in the 1970s as an alien species that favours damp spots like riverbanks. At this time, many children started to display blisters as a result of touching the plant’s sap while using the stems to make pea-shooters or telescopes: sunlight makes the skin sensitive to the irritants in the plant, causing the skin to redden. Today, it is widely acknowledged that neither gardeners nor conservationists should attempt to cut the plant down (exposing its sap) as its toxins can cause serious, recurring skin damage”.
For images and more information please see the link here
Other invasive species include Himalayan Balsam – also an invasive weed of riverbanks and ditches, where it prevents native species from growing.
and Japanese Knotweed – an invasive non-native plant of many riverbanks, waste grounds, and roadside verges, where it prevents native species from growing.
Different rules apply about planting or “causing these plants to grow in the wild”, so do check this out carefully.
Just a small job this morning to repair the stock fence within Avebury Stone Circle for The National Trust
June 2023
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With the driest February for 30 years followed by the wettest March in England since 1981, I think it is safe to say it has been a challenge recently to get jobs completed or in some cases even started! We are very grateful for your patience and understanding.
As trees come into leaf, it will be a good time to undertake safety surveys, especially if you have ash trees present in your portfolio. We are still finding trees with no signs of the disease, so there may still be hope that the landscape may not be devoid of ash trees going forward; however, time will tell.
The King’s Coronation will be a chance to see this spectacle for the first time in my lifetime. And, who knows,I may see another one if I’m lucky!
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