The contractors had been on site last week and with their remote-controlled 'robobasher' and excavator cleared a lot of rhody on the flat margins of the Clough. The steep ground inside the clough is inaccessible to machines hence the need for humans!
Throughout the morning the rain, sleet and snow fell and the rhody was cold and wet. Dan, ranger, battled to get a fire going which, on account of no wind assistance, he had to keep alive with frequent blows from the leaf blower.
We ate half a sultana cake between us for elevenses then carried on bashing the rhody until lunch at 12:30. The weather took a further turn for the worse soon after and with worse still forecast Dan called off the workday at 1:30. The walk back to our cars across the moor was a 'heads down into the gale' trudge and we were all glad to get back to the shelter of cars/car park and warm up.
Daniel
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