Six of us (four regulars and two newcomers) spent today laying a hedge in a field behind Daniel Hill Wood. The hedge was close to ones that we laid in January and last November and we continued laying from where last week's mid-week workparty reached.
We divided ourselves up and throughout the day Matt and Mark laid the hedge, Daniel and Jane pruned the hedge so that it was ready to lay, Gordon started and stoked the fire and Adrian worked on the fire and moved prunings to it from the hedge. We worked unsupervised (ranger Dave Standen transported our tools to/from the worksite), took a coffee and cake break at 11 and had lunch at 1.
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| Our hedgelaying is from the double-trunk tree leftwards |
The weather was decent all day (mild temperature, a strong southwesterly wind but none of the forecast rain) and as we walked to the worksite we had excellent views to the Cage at Lyme Park and Kinder Scout beyond.
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| From left: Jane, Gordon, Mark, Matt, Daniel, Adrian |
This was our last hedgelaying until the autumn because the bird nesting season will soon be upon us.
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