Thank you for your words of support, Unwashed, you are quite right.
We don't want to be recognised for what we've done, we don't want thanks, if we didn't want to do it, we'd have walked away from it.
All we want is a little leeway to enable us to get on top of things properly.
Fortunately the new (extra) Committee people have got stuck in to help us and last night in three and a bit hours, our "working party" had jet-washed the loos, strimmed around parts of the edges of the site, dismantled an old wooden compost bin, in it's place, erected a large wooden "corral" for the horse manure and installed two recyling bins (also known as old plastic dustbins!).
That's just for starters !
Long may it continue (lol) raises glass of elderberry wine