Mid week special. Inert start building banking for north shore of Manor lake? 23rd August 2022

Recently, my website activity figures have gone, well, crazy. Loads of hits on my blog. I can think of two explanations for this

1. People from various organisations are reading my blog. If so: wotcha. Hope you are enjoying the write up, and don't mind my sometimes pithy, sarcastic nature.

2. The hits are attributable to web bots and the like, sniffing my blog pages and gathering info. Can't even say "bugger off" to them, as they wont understand.

I tootled down to Manor farm, today, as my swim wasn't until 12:30 - as opposed to the enforced summer schedule of 11:30. I arrived quite early, roughly 9:15am. Inert were busy on site. Two diggers, two bulldozers and two earth movers, all chugging away.

One digger was perched precariously, to my mind, on top of the western North embankment, filling a heavy earth mover that had to reverse up a ramp to get close to the digger. There must be a very good reason for demolishing the embankment in this manner, but it does elude me.

As I suspected, the heavy earth mover, once filled, trundles down the ramp and then across to the east side of current workings, to dump its top soil on an area south of the former Cormorant lake (north). A bulldozer then smears this topsoil over the area, while the heavy earth mover goes back for more stuff.  I will be very intrigued to find out what happens to the Ridge and eastern North embankment, as I would have thought these would be a more sensible source of topsoil for this area.

A second digger was merrily digging out what appears to be a land bridge, north of my (former) mighty mound. This stuff was being used to fill a heavy earth mover, which would then transport the spoil about 50 yards south, where it was dumped.  Here, by my reckoning, a second bulldozer would then push this spoil to create an embankment.  The course of this embankment looks suspiciously like that for the north shore of the new, elongated Manor lake.

This would mark a major milestone for the restoration of the Manor farm portion of the Longwater road nature reserve; and it might, just might, mean that the site will be restored before the end of this year. YIPPEE! Whereupon, all the fiddly, fettling bits has to take place. 

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