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WORKING PARTY - IMPORTANT
10th April 10.00 a.m. to 13.00 pm only
We need the fullest possible attendance - please come and help tidy up !!! Pls Confirm Attendance in advance + PHIL COOPER WILL BE IN CHARGE OF THIS INITIATIVE . I will attend if recovered sufficiently .+
N.B. Pls bring £35.00 for Fish Food [ this buys 2 bags of Micronised Wheat or Micronised Barley + 3 bags Flaked Maize Flaked Barley or Sow Rolls from Albrighton Feeds at just over £37.00 I will pay the balance personally] if you have not yet made your contribution - we need YOUR CONTRIBUTION to keep the fish growing steadily and to keep them healthy . . . ++ !!! ITS SO IN YOUR BEST INTEREST ++
PLEASE USE the GUEST BOOK (MEMBERS & BOOKINGS facility) email or text to confirm coming to the Work Party !
Message to : Dave Anslow, Paul Ducie, Gary Huse (& Mr Huse Senior if possible) Mike Elwell, Phil Richardson, Richard Griffiths & Tony Lowe ( been working in middle east since joining ) Can you pls make it to the Sunday 10th APRIL 10.00 a.m. Working Party or let me know reasons for absence in advance. We need YOUR help - guys.
+++ CANNOT MANAGE WITHOUT REGULAR ATTENDANCE +++
And its only a few hours . . .
NOTE : Jim Lawler has kindly donated a Permanent Toilet - pls thank him. IF NOT KEPT SCRUPULOUSLY CLEAN - WILL BE LOCKED, AND KEYS CHARGED FOR !!!!
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Outstanding “TO DO” list :
A. Installing a few sets of front peg-boards & posts in front of the new pegs . The timber needs using before it starts sprouting & could get stolen.
B. More pruning, trimming & tidying & FIRES . . .
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HOPE EVERYBODY LIKES THE NEW UPSTREAM BRIDGE - thanks to Phil Cooper, the wrecking crew Mike & Phil, Jim Lawler, ( & Me) and Elliott - thanks again for helping put bridge in place and for spraying it with Crapinol ( creosote substitute ) the next week.If any of you have any real creosote - I would appreciate it to use in the knap-sack sprayer before the winter sets in . . .
I put in a step at the front of the bridge and had a pile of wood delivered when I popped back to the UK for a week . . .
PLEASE USE the GUEST BOOK (MEMBERS & BOOKINGS facility) thingy to confirm coming to the Work Party ! Go on you CAN do it ! just click and register once then chuck in your message - easy !!!!
Dave Anslow, Paul Ducie, Phil Richardson, Richard Griffiths & Mystery man Tony Lowe ( been working in the middle east since joining ) can you pls make it to the Sunday 17th October Working party or let me know in advance.
P.S. Pete Jones ( Mike Elwells spiderman friend who climbe the trees so well )has dropped out ( out of membership not out of a tree), and his deposit has passed to Mike Elwell who is now fully paid up.
FEEDING THE FISH
THE BASICS :
3-4 kgs (10 scoops) per day is what AJS recommended.
1) Ducks need pruning.
2) Feed needs to be near enough to the bank to see it.
3) Layers Pellets & Pig Rolls . . . preferably to be fed ONLY when you have seen the fish feeding on a day you are at the water either fishing or working .
DUCKS SUCK (the fish food . . . ) The mallard-cross ducks have already learned to dive and stay down for 10 seconds at a time (so make sure you hang around when feeding fish). Currently the ducks all pile in when you set off up the bank to leave. Although - I suppose that could be a good thing - provided the carp learn to feed straight away. They would removed the remaining litter of rotting cereals on the lake bed . What do you reckon ? - leave ‘em or lose ‘em - in reference to the ducks ?
Mike E - do you have time go over with a shotgun - take a few out if in season and as long as you will eat them if you wish - but we DO need to scare them away now - ditto the Geese, DO NOT SHOOT THE GEESE . If you can get there early one morning & see the heron - pls scare him off but DO NOT SHOOT AT HIM other than to scare it off.
Best to watch for the heron in the lilies or on bank by far spillway from the comfort of your car on the road, and sneak a shot off at the water in front of it from 150yds away or more.
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PLEASE CHECK HERE - the day before EVERY WORKING PARTY - and the morning of same too - to ensure nothing changed last minute.
IF YOU HAVE A CHAIN SAW - PLEASE BRING IT TO THE WORKING PARTIES
Task List : PS - thanks to the members who have been doing some pruning under theri own initiat
- Install FRONT BOARDS & POSTS
- Buy a few new gunnera, lilies, Conifers & Prunus to sex up the top end
- Trim shrubs/branches around pegs and walkways and all roun
- Ladder & Lop Exercise to remove as many overhanging branches as possible
- Far Side - dig soil out of back of bank & bring forward to fill in gaps at boards
- Drive in pegs/posts to assist above (to save soil falling through in future)
- Define several new pegs . Bank & Bark or Timber Platforms? PART DONE
- Give Boat house a quick lick of paint
- Rub down & varnish Display Cabinet & start using it for photograp
- DO NOT MOVE FLOATING DEBRIS in front of level boards . . .
- Dig weeds out and spray Car Park to improve appearance - DONE
- Clear snags & overhanging branches using punt / step Ladders
- Get some stock into the paddocks to graze the grass
- Members - please suggest jobs that need doing
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