Hi Duncan,
Apologies to yourself, I was assuming that the council had done this work, I should have known better.
It is great to see what the guys have done, their woodwork skills look a lot better than mine.
The council should be doing something after all surely part of the permit price should be earmarked for the upkeep of the beat. It appears to me that the more that `Joe Blogs' does the less that that they do.
We certainly miss the likes of Bert who kept on top of the the three council beats (for those who didn't know Bert he was employed by the council and his duties were as a River Bailiff and looking after the beats).
I believe that the upkeep passed onto the council leisure & recreation department (but could be wrong again).
IAA, I would have thought would have always been willing to help but as everything nowadays usually any work or help required comes down to a handful of volunteers, everybody seems to be to busy.
I will certainly bring this up at IAA's next meeting, would any of the regulars at the top end of the beat who are members be willing to come onto the committee so that they can directly put their views in.
On a totally different matter I always personally think that instead of what can any Club do for me it should also be what can I do for that club.
Regards,
Bri.