Last week at the lake

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 6:02 pm

I wasn't really looking much this time but there were several egrets, green woodpeckers, various tits and some mallard....plus lot of mosquitoes and other biting flies that we disturbed while working (whilst really cold at night it warmed up a lot in the daytime) Not so good!

I'd say that mosquito repellent would be good to have in the kit..... Any tips anyone?

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:25 pm

wild boar. great stuff ! they make a great bar b q meal !

nice to hear that you have seen tracks of deer and boar. i bet when it warms up there will be loads of birds of prey ?

Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:53 pm

well, a very good tip from me would be:

get an Aloe Vera plant for the van........

why??

if anyone burns, or has an injury, or bite they can gently break off a piece of its leaf/stem type, and rub its juices onto the wound this is an instant relief.... and has very good healing powers.

likewise, Aloe Vera spray for midges..... they hate it.... :)

Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:57 pm

Mosquito milk is what I use . Its a roll on and you can get it from BOOTS. It is not on general sale so ask for it at the counter.

Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:51 pm

Mosquito milk? Bet it's expensive .....must take ages to get a pint out of the little s*ds.

Good idea re the aloe vera AC! I've some gel - I'll try to remember to take it out next time.

Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:26 pm

Not as long as it takes to get one out of my mate Laughing

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:21 am

Hi all ...just got back at 5.00 am this morning from the lake Very Happy

I took a friend of mine out there who is great at cutting down trees ....Dave Smith

The weather was not too good as it rained every day and on our last day it actualy snowed Evil or Very Mad

But after a hard 5 days ....we have the makings of some great swims Very Happy

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:38 am

The 5 days started off quite badly .....as on the way there the M6 had been closed off just before the M1 and also, due to Sea France being on strike our 11.30 ferry did not sail untill 3.00 am the next morning. Glad I have just made a bulk booking on the Euro Tunnel for the next 5 trips Very Happy

Well once we arrived at the lake and unloaded the car we walked the right hand side to see where the swims could be fitted in This was no mean task as the lake has never been fished before ....there were no natural spaces apart from the dam Evil or Very Mad

Every inch of the right hand side was covered with either trees in the lake itself, or large overhanging trees, or just lots of dead trees Shocked

Even an area with only small ones like these had much bigger ones just behind overhanging or in the lake Rolling Eyes

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:47 am

So we picked out 4 areas to tackle and set about removing any fallen, or overhanging, or small ones ....as I had already said to the owner I would not touch any of the big old ones.

So Dave armed with his two chain saws started thinning them out as I removed them out of the way ....Here are shots of Dave at work, removing overhanging trees

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:54 am

Once we had done the overhanging ones in each area we had selected, we then tackled the ones in the swim itself and the ones fallen in the lake