The Good Life
Feeling a bit like Tom Good this evening which is disturbing as I generally subscribe the Gerry Leadbetter school of thought. We’ve spent the entire weekend in the garden and as a result I am now really tired. A tree surgeon paid us a visit on Thursday with his chainsaw to cut down some dead trees. Being a cheapskate I just paid him to cut them down and chop them into fireplace sized logs but not to pull them out of the woods and stack them - “we can do that” I told him. We did, but it took us much of Saturday to do so. As you can see, we now have a suitably enormous log pile that should keep us in fire wood till next year.
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We’ve also been clearing back some of the encroaching forest that was threatening to engulf the garden. This left us with a big pile of cut down striplings and undergrowth and me with an excuse to buy a new toy:
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That thing is a serious piece of kit. It can chew up branches up to 3 inches in diameter and shred smaller stuff like leaves and twigs into a fine mulch that Ali has been spreading over borders to keep the weeds down.
Eagle-eyed ex-Chrystalites might have noticed the Canterbury polo shirt - good gardening attire ;-).