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Some things we get up to...

It's not all work at the Tree Trust. Here we are, socialising at a mid-winter lunch at Karapiro.We had been treating ourselves twice a year; mid-winter and pre-Christmas, but as the later time has become busier, with more grand-children, many living in different towns and even countries, we have decided to have only the mid-winter event. It provides a welcome break at a time when there's not much on. Once King's Birthday and Matariki are over, there's a long stretch to Labour Day at the end of O...

Planting in the swale

After a very long wait, while the weather decided what it was going to be, we finally got on to planting the Swale in the Brian Mayo Reserve. Previously, the weather had been too dry, then too wet. We've had vehicles stuck in the mud before, and don't want to do it again. The erratic weather held up our work and proved very frustrating. We wanted to get on and finish this job and move to others, but the weather held us up for weeks....

Gabrielle

Cyclone Gabrielle didn't cause much damage in Cambridge compared to the havoc it wreaked elsewhere. Nevertheless, the Council needed help to tidy up windblown branches and trees. We were happy to help out.Some of our work practices don't pass modern rules or attitudes, but we belong to a generation where health and safety were matters for personal control, not legislation. Basically, we use the old sailingship mantra: one hand for the ship and one for yourself....