Catriona, Barry and I drove through a downpour and arrived at the Packhorse trail wall to find the foundations filled with water. A little drizzle accompanied us for the first couple of hour of the day, and we managed to get a mud covered foundation course in place, which matched our mud covered boots and mud covered trousers very well. As the weather improved we put a further 2 courses and a set of through stones in place and headed for home a little earlier than normal.
Richard H.
No. wallers: 3
Thanks to Barry for additional photos
We've had a welcome and generous donation from Justin and Liz after our Hillend endeavours, so new equipment may be forthcoming!(R)
AN e-mail from Justin for - Barry's Volunteers:
You wanted to know when our donation had been sent. Liz has now paid *** to Friends of AONB account with the reference 'Walling thank you'. Let me know if there are any problems tracing this so that it is used for Barry's volunteers. I'm attaching a photo I took of the group as they had tea and biscuits having completed the wall. I realise that 'topping out' should really be alcoholic but they seemed happy and, of course were driving!
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