This was our first workday of the new year, and following a recent trend, we began with a day of hedge laying near Alderley Edge. Eight of us came out to work off some of the Christmas ‘excess’.
We’ve had fair weather and foul on past workdays here, and thankfully today was the former: clear winter sunshine all day, although the temperature was sufficiently low to encourage an energetic pace of work in order to keep warm.
While Neil and Andy H tried to get a fire going (difficult with small pieces of fresh brash), Christine and Andy S continued a section of hedge that had already been started, while Jenny, David, Hazel and I broke into a new section at the top of the field. It was very thick, very thorny and needed a lot of trimming out before we could start laying any hedge.
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| Christine and Andy S's handiwork |
With the local sheep being consigned to a neighbouring field, our only wildlife company of the day were a few robins that flitted between the hedge and the cut brash, although we also got a good view of a pair of buzzards being ‘bombed’ by crows.
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| The fire in its infancy |
By the end of the day Neil and Andy H had got a good fire going, and we’d made steady progress on the hedge, Christine and Andy S in particular making good headway on their section. We’ll be back in two weeks’ time to continue the job.
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