Down by the lake

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Originally uploaded by pcgxk.

Here's my by another one of the local lakes that i was at yesterday. We'd just done a 10K walk round the local nature reserve, and this is just by a picnic site at the end. I'm not overly sure what the duckboards are for cos they don't seem to lead anywhere and it would seem unlikely that you could launch a boat from the end due to the vastness of the all the reeds (or whatever they're called) - but then maybe in other times of the year they're not there and you could launch......

according to one of my work colleagues this is predicted to be the last good weekend of summer and from here on in, autumn and winter come, whether this is true or not we'll have to see, but I have one more week of work before 4 weeks away from my desk, with a micture of holiday and training courses.....nice!

Its also harvest weekend at the moment, there are loads of people out working all the farms and combine harvesters all over the place. At the nature reserve this afternoon there a demonstration of traditional methods of farming and harvesting, because the 2 farms they run there focus on preserving old techniques and the like.

yesterday we met a volunteer group who work there who were working on a new project to restore some old farms and tracks around the area, because the nature reserve itself exists because in the past 2-300 years it was a major farming area outside of stockholm. So they're going down there today to demo their skills. Its quite cool stuff cos in a way its a bit like the old ray mears bush craft stuff, because there's lots of things like, making your own fencing and various craft type things like that.