Wide awake for 5am - too dark to do much outside, but catching day-break down at the field and moving some of the floated hedgerow wood debris from when the River Dee last came over its banks.
A couple of frosts, but not persistent enough to dry things up and sporadic rain has made the ground greasy underfoot.
Some of the nursery stock of young trees shuffled about at home and a little bit of levelling at the field of a low spot between the cider apple trees.
Another spell looking over the 1735 map and overlapping modern features in the landscape.
A couple of enigmas to resolve - a LIDAR aerial view and depressions in the ground match a 90 degree boundary marked 100+ meters further south than expected. The map also pre-dates alterations to 'Appleby's Drain' the ditch from Crewe-by-Farndon that drops into the River Dee.
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A pair of herons again in the maize field behind.
Not much pencilled in for the weekend, other than organisational things...
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