The Weir, Hereford, Saturday 22nd October
It has been a while since we visited The Weir, May 7th to be exact. It is a real pleasure to work at this location, particularly so this weekend as we had such lovely weather.
Posted in Conservation, National Trust, News, Volunteering, tagged Car Sharing, Hereford, Japanese Knotweed, River Wye, The Weir, Walled Garden on October 25, 2011|
The Weir, Hereford, Saturday 22nd October
It has been a while since we visited The Weir, May 7th to be exact. It is a real pleasure to work at this location, particularly so this weekend as we had such lovely weather.
Posted in Conservation, National Trust, News, Volunteering, tagged Car Sharing, Hereford, Japanese Knotweed, River Wye, The Weir, Walled Garden on May 7, 2011|
The Weir, Hereford, Saturday 7th May
So, the National Trust got me thinking with their recent description of ‘daycations‘. If a daycation is when you go somewhere nice for a one day holiday, is a one day workday somewhere nice called a workdaycation? If so, our workdaycation (yes, yes, i know, its awful) was to The Weir near Hereford. This site is outwith our normal Shropshire/Staffordshire geographical area.
Car sharing was the order of the day and we met head gardener, Ned, on site just in time for the first rain we’d seen for many weeks. We were shown around the property, which includes a beautiful stretch along the River Wye and a walled garden. (more…)