Some workmen were at Thrupp Lake yesterday.

They were there to bang blue sticks in. I guess

they mark out where the drainage channel is to be put under the cycle track. Work was suspended by nPower, earlier in the year, because of the breeding season. But now all the birds have grown up a little, work is likely to begin on preparing to drain the lake (nPower call it dewatering). On Monday they will start work to divert the cycle path to allow a drainage channel to be built.