This morning I formally handed over organisation of work
parties to Tammy Rudduck, who nobly gave up her time on a Saturday when she was
actually in the middle of moving house!
Commiserations and warm thanks to her partner, who no doubt bore the
brunt of all this.
Tammy now holds the keys to the Pavilion shed. She gave out the necessary tools etc. and
organised the work.
Ann Leith and I worked on the two noticeboards at the top of
Jawbone Walk: the locked board had a lot of graffiti on the back, which we
managed to remove, using the special fluid given to me a while ago by Mike
Shields. I have now left it stored in
the Council shed behind the Pavilion, for future reference. It did the job well, in the end, after quite
a struggle! We also worked on the front,
and on the information board on the path opposite. Ann then had to go.
After the break Suzanne Mackenzie and her two boys, and
another young friend, joined me in cleaning the information board at the
'crossroads' of Middle Meadow Walk and North Meadow Walk. The boys also picked litter and handed out
FOMBL leaflets to passers-by, most efficiently.
While Suzanne was finding somewhere to rinse our cloths the boys took
turns in reading out the now clean (and legible) information board, with its
history of the Meadows. They were
intrigued to discover that it had previously been a loch.
We then went back to the Pavilion, and did some more work on
the noticeboards there (the boys were perfectionist: Ann and I hadn't been efficient
enough!). When they were finally
satisfied, we adjourned to the Helen Acquroff Memorial Drinking Fountain near
by (see the last newsletter), and though we didn't have the proper tools,
somehow managed to remove a lot of weeds that were clogging up the surrounding
paving. Ideally this should be done
professionally and re-pointed. But in
the meantime, the boys found that litter-pickers actually made good tools for
cleaning out the gaps between the paving slabs.
Many thanks indeed to them for all their hard work.
Heather Goodare
