Well, I am getting the feeling that we are making progress – you can now see all of the dry stone wall along the one edge (and strangely enough, the wall that was under the brambles is in the best shape) and the grass is starting to grow under the trees now the undergrowth has been cleared.
I spent today working in the corner clearing out the holly. This is hard work and I needed to clear around 10 feet of holly from around the base of the tree before I could attend to the trees. It is difficult to believe that this took most of the day. This corner is now cleared out and I can start on the other task in this corner – rebuilding the dry stone wall.
My enthusiam (and confidence) boosted by my dry stone walling efforts in the top field, I am going to make a start on rebuilding this wall next. This wall will be seen my anyone visiting the house, so it had better be reasonable!
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| The holly is now gone revealing the old wall – not the one to the right, but the one the other side of the large tree. |
And then the last task of the day was to get rid of the material from thinning out the orchard – the large pieces of timber were cut into logs, but this left a lot of smaller pieces. This made a great bonfire.
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| About 2/3 of all the material from the orchard went on the bonfire. I will burn the rest when it is a bit drier. |