Toge men folk arrived for battle/work on Monday morning at 8am having twiddled their fingers for 2 hours waiting for us all to get ready, and then they were off, no stopping them chainsaws whirling. I started off with a chainsaw but was quickly overridden and my saw handed to a man more able, 72 but more able for sure I’ve never seen my saw work so well, the vorpal blade. The only difficult thing was getting them to stop, a moment of turned back and another tree crashed to the ground, they certainly do enjoy confirming the sound of a tree falling. The day was foul, driving rain which does tend to slow you down a bit, by lunch time everyone was soaked – Yasura-san explained that now he felt alive again. For lunch they all changed into my clothes, a bizarre sight the checked and tartan land army. As the weather worsened I called the afternoon session of and the village slept.
Wet work
Tartan land army
Topics:
- aerial photography[1]
- allotment[1]
- alpines[1]
- apples[1]
- blueberries[1]
- bog[1]
- bonsai[1]
- Bracken[3]
- Brantwood[2]
- building[15]
- burgess roughton[1]
- coldframe[1]
- collection[1]
- delays[1]
- demolitions[2]
- drainage[2]
- drilling[2]
- drystone walling[1]
- eco[1]
- fennel[1]
- flower arranging[1]
- food[1]
- France[1]
- friends of the lake district[1]
- garden[11]
- gardener[2]
- gardening[1]
- geraniums[1]
- grand designs[2]
- ground source heat[3]
- haymaking[1]
- heather[1]
- hedgerow[2]
- history[1]
- honesty shop[2]
- honesty stall[1]
- interior[1]
- interiors[1]
- Ireland[1]
- irises[1]
- Japan[2]
- Kitchen Garden[5]
- landscape design[1]
- Lawson Park[14]
- Lawson Park building[2]
- Leck Construction[1]
- machinery[1]
- Magazine[1]
- materials[1]
- moor[1]
- morels[1]
- mosses[1]
- mountain bikes[1]
- mowing[1]
- mushrooms[1]
- Narnia[1]
- National Garden Scheme[2]
- new growth[1]
- open garden bog[1]
- Polar Bear[1]
- progress[1]
- pruning[1]
- raised beds[2]
- rock[1]
- rock garden[1]
- roses[1]
- Ruskin[1]
- seeds[1]
- sewage treatment[2]
- slate[1]
- snow[1]
- spring[1]
- Sustainable[1]
- tea house[1]
- trees[1]
- tropical[1]
- trug[1]
- vegetables[3]
- vegetables for sale[1]
- view[1]
- volunteer[1]
- water[1]
- weather[1]
- wild fungi[1]
- wildflower meadow[2]
- wind[1]
Months:
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2008
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2007
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2006
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