Thanks to Ozzie Milligan for this pair of magnificent bat boxes. Now to find a suitable location and hope we get tenants.

Two lots of spawn deposited in the marsh, so not long before we hear the sound of little webbed feet🤗

Pics of the start of the entrance screen, eventually to be clad with reeds.

No truth in the rumour it is being built to prevent Mexicans entering the reserve!

Planning notice posted near the marsh field, at least this shows we are in the process. Hopefully we will not have any objectors and things go smoothly.

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​More housing going up in the Morpeth area, hopefully this will not add to traffic congestion.

Many thanks to the team from the Princes Trust who provided me with some manpower over the last two weeks. They sent in between 12-16 people over 4 days, they helped with making wood chip pathways and moving earth piles and landscaping. They have saved me a lot of mud shifting for which my back will be eternally grateful.

Hopefully they enjoyed the experience too.

Yes,at last, my planning application has been validated and accepted. I should get a yeah or neigh by 21st April, latest. Fingers crossed we may soon be able to put up Vera’s shed and maybe dig a pond! Permission may come too late to get the bigger scrapes done due to the nesting season but we’ll see, the planners may surprise and be quick but I will not hold my breath😉.

Well after a couple of days in the digger I now have an almost complete pathway through the reserve, just about 20 metres of floating boardwalk over the water to make it complete.

I did disturb a little resident but thankfully he wasn’t hurt, just a little confused:

John and I are continuing to build our storage shed, it’s not looking too shabby.

Just finished digging the base out for the new classroom we want to put in. Now we wait for Corrillion to deliver the road base they have promised.

John meanwhile is doing a grand job of building a wood store from our pallet stock.

Yes, Planning Permission In, its official and it has been acknowledged my application is in. Fingers crossed the planners will not need any further info and they pass it quickly, I know naive of me!!