Category: News & Events

not done yet, a question of availability I’m afraid. The plan is to go out about 10pm tonight. I’ll let you know when it’s done..Anne Mayes

Well, the hill has been gritted – by hand. An Above and Beyond Award to Matt, Colin Dave H and new resident David H. The gritter was playing up so these four volunteered to grit the hill by hand. It took the four of them 2 hours to do all bar the flat bit from the bus shelter to Pooks Lane. Dave H reported racking up 10k steps! This really was an exceptional act for the safety of all of us and to say we are grateful is an understatement. If you see them in the Bridford……..!Anne Mayes

Another icy night and Andy B and Liam have just been out to grit the hill. Again though, take care, there’s still a bit of run off in places. We’re very grateful to them, particularly Andy on his fourth night gritting. No Secondary Routes will be done tomorrow. Anne Mayes

Another icy night and Andy B and Dave H have just been out to grit the hill. Unfortunately there’s a fair bit of runoff at various points on the hill still and Andy and Dave point out that by the time they came back it was icy again by the phone box. In their view the drive to work tomorrow could well be worse than today’s and that was bad. It looks as if the accident on the hill was shown on Spotlight so today was certainly not good. I hope those involved are alright. Despite this, no Secondary Routes will be done tomorrow. Anne Mayes

Another icy night and a team of three have just been out to grit the hill. Unfortunately there’s a fair bit of runoff at various points on the hill which will probably freeze as they did today so care will still be needed. No Secondary Routes will be done tomorrow.
Our thanks go to Andy H, Andy B and a new member, Dave H for going out for us tonight. Anne Mayes

I expect you’ve seen the warnings of ice for tonight and until 10 am tomorrow. Indeed this has warranted the promise of a rare gritting of the Secondary Routes tomorrow, but not until at least 8am so our thanks go to Andy H and Andy B for going out tonight to grit the hill. Anne Mayes

No one from The Team is going out tonight – Highways gritted the hill this morning. Anne Mayes

Tonight we have Joe and a mystery helper to thank for going out and gritting the whole route. The volunteers have already gone out more this month than they did in the whole winter last year . Hopefully Christmas will be mild. Anne Mayes

Tonight, we discovered, by observation, that Highways had gritted the hill and were refilling the grit bins. I do ask that they tell us when they grit but they rarely do I’m afraid. Note that Highways only do the bus route, not up to the Farm. Anne Mayes

our thanks to Matt and Colin for going out tonight. Fortunately the gritter held up but tonight’s problem may impact its use tomorrow. It always has to be washed out at the end of the run otherwise what’s left in the gritter sets solid and that’s the end of spreading. Unfortunately the tap and hose had frozen solid so it’s not been possible to clear it. Anne Mayes