 Your mission - should you choose to accept it - is to turn two miles of this... |
 ...into this. |
Pant on the Mont Photos & text by Martin Ludgate Most of the 30-plus miles of spectacular border waterway that makes up the Montgomery Canal has already been restored. But there still remains a 2-mile length of dry canal bed filled with impenetrable jungle-like vegetation, running from Crickheath to the unlikely-named village of Pant. Or there did, until WRG got their hands on it..... |
Your mission - should you choose to accept it - is to turn two miles of this... |
...into this. |
| Unfortunately the fuel crisis intervened, and many of WRG's volunteers were forced to spend the weekend sitting at home, looking gloomily out of their windows at their petrol-less cars and dreaming of jungle-bashing on the 'Mont'. So two miles of canal clearance was proved to be a bit of a tall order. But enough volunteers did manage to get there to make a sizeable impression... |
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 A high-risk strategy by George 'Bungle': giving Ali 'Womble' advice on how to cut branches off trees - while he's standing under one of them... |
 "There's a canal in here somewhere". |
 "This one's got me stumped!" |
 A party of dignitaries are shown around our worksite by members of the Montgomery Waterway Restoration Trust. They must have been impressed - apparently the Mayor was so interested that it took ages to get rid of him! |
 "Gosh! This is real environmental conservation work, isn't it?" |
 Saturday evening featured a party with birthday cake for WRG... |
 ...and the WRG chairman Mike Palmer where he deserves to be - behind bars! |
 Thank you to 'Mr Mac' for keeping us supplied with tea on site. Also to everybody who helped to keep us well-fed... |
 ...and swept up after us. |