A huge thank you to Cllrs Ken and Tom Hughes (father and son) who yesterday after another long day of working and travelling from the Lake District as a stonemason, they kindly and skilfully helped to move what seemed like an unmovable ornamental rock that was donated by the neighbouring Aldi. Ingenuously, over one hour Ken used a collection of metal rods and planks to lever and roll the beautiful slab into place. Giving me a whole new appreciation of the Egyptians and Druids in creating the Pyramids and Stonehenge!
When completed it will provide a beautiful rockery feature in front of the bug hotel in what will be a children’s eco/educational corner in Bobby’s Wood/Woodend (junction of Liverpool Road South and Northway).
People may have noticed a temporary slowdown in the routine MTC maintenance of some of our parks lately, sadly due to the departure of a couple of staff, which is currently involving an urgent recruitment drive. Consequently, we spent this afternoon weed spraying the path to protect the integrity of the compressed top dressing of the Cotswold path, which we and the Ashworth hospital gardeners worked slavishly to create.
Can you help? If you are local to the wood and would like to register to adopt one tree or plant, to simply water it on a regular basis, perhaps when walking the dog, we would love to hear from you at admin@fomd.co.uk. Many thanks, Friends of Maghull and District (FOMD)