July 2020

27th July 2020 The Biggest Day of the journey so far
Over the weekend the earth moving vehicles had arrived on site and on Monday they started moving soil, lots of it.
After 11 years of work to get to this point, members marked the occasion by getting together on the one bit of Allington Hill which overlooks the site, to pose for a socially distanced photograph. Members were joined for the occasion by Alan Heeks, our Honorary Member, who founded Bridport Cohousing.
It was so important to us to mark this day, so we double-checked the legislation that had come into force on 4 July that allows up to 30 people in a business to meet together in socially distanced family groups for specific purposes including community activities.
The photo shoot was followed by a carefully conducted picnic where members sat in family groups and ate only their own food and drank only from their own cups and bottles. Not our usual style at all!
A photo taken of Charles Couzens leaning against our field gate with piles of earth and a parked-up digger in the background, holding a bottle of bubbly that had been presented to him by a member, was used for our Bridport News item.