A minor trim of the overhanging willows from the north (by-pass) boundary, so as to get to the 4 rail fencing for repairs - I've left the Salix viminalis type for now, as that will be handy for cuttings later just poked in the ground.
Saturday was spent at Cannock Chase for a Forestry Fair. Apart from various chainsaw championships and demonstrations, quite a few trade stands and a return home with the Landrover a bit fuller and the wallet a touch emptier.
Mainly hand tools you won't find in B&Q and a few bits and bobs and 80 cell-grown young trees for patching the hedges and planting up.
One handy item was a post-ram for hedging / marker stakes, from a tree-guard and supplies specialist reasonably local in Shropshire.
Sunday was a stunning sunny day - breakfast and groceries from Hawarden Estate Farm Shop, then several hours work clearing the short east boundary hedge along the track-way.
Badly overgrown and thin and patchy at the base, rusty barbed wire and odd fencing removed, I've trimmed the hawthorn ready for layering and left enough room to establish the original line and to get in for new hedge planting and new post and rail fencing behind.
There were only 13 hawthorn 'trees' in all along 30 metres and a few dog-roses saved along the line too.
The wood-burning kettle on the go most of the day, in shorts and T-shirt weather and with a few stops ploughing through provisions from the farm-shop.
A reasonable sized dragon-fly whizzed by and something larger than a rabbit was moving through the long grass with a cob of maize from the field next door.
Monday wasn't so sunny, still a fair bit done and the east boundary almost ready now for the post-hole borer and a new stock-proof fence and gate...
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