I went to Toll’s Meadow for the conservation work organized by the UEA conservation club. Toll’s Meadow is situated in Wymondham, ten minutes’ train from Norwich.

Toll’s Meadow is a Local Nature Reserve, some five acres owned by Wymondham Town Council. Local Nature Reserves are places with wildlife or geological features that are of special interest locally. They offer people special opportunities to study or learn about nature or simply to enjoy it.

A meadow is an open community of grasses and wildflowers with very few trees. This rich habitat supports a wide variety of animal life. Like Buxton Heath, to maintain the initial habitat of Toll’s Meadow, some volunteers go to Toll’s Meadow to cut off the trees to prevent it from turning to woodland.

That day, we were assigned to dig out the weeds from the surface of certain paths. This was to let the field to have better air supply and better chance of seeding. The tool we used was the pitch fork. It was not hard work because no one needed us to work hard. 

 The weeds we dug out were then piled up.

After working for one hour, we had the tea time - hot tea and tea biscuits prepared by one of the volunteers of Toll’s Meadow. It seems that tea time is part of English life.