Prewalking the stone stiles
I’ll be leading a couple of walks at this year’s Dursley Walking Festival. So it’s time to do the pre walk and...
Banners and rafts
Some housekeeping activities today. First of all, the regular check of the three river rafts for the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust. There were...
Walking the land
I met up with Ruth and Lucy from Walking the land – a Stroud based art group who do walks and draw/paint...
A walk around the hamlets
Today was the public launch of the Dursley Walking Festival programme. We marked it by holding a free public walk around the...
Getting the festival live
It’s August bank holiday weekend again, which means time to get the programme published for the annual Dursley Walking Festival. This gives...
Community collaborations
Today turned out to be a day of collaborating with different parts of the local community. In the morning, I sat with...
Catching up with Community projects
This week has been mostly about progressing various community projects I’m involved with. On Tuesday and Thursday, I held the summer sessions...
Walking in the rainy woods
We have organised a series of monthly walks with Dursley Welcomes Walkers in the run up to the festival in October. What...
Racing against the weather
The Glorious Grasslands seed harvesting season continues with the challenging weather – certainly the consistently worst summer in the four years I’ve...