Overgrown hedges

Well quite a lot has changed since my last blog post.  Lots of interesting changes that have taken up quite a bit of my time so the smallholding has taken a bit of a back seat, for now anyway, but not for long because WE(yes, we) have big plans.

I met someone and we hit it off in quite a big way.  We met completely unexpectedly through a mutual friend, discovered that not only do we really like each other but have all the same passions and goals, and our lives have just kind of evolved seamlessly into one another.  I spent quite a lot of my free time staying at his flat at first which took up all my spare time and money, so plans were shelved temporarily, but its evolved a bit recently and we've met each others children now and it went swimmingly, so he stays here a lot now.

Back to the smallholding, we had a letter asking us to cut back the overgrown bushes as they were restricting the view of the road.  I got myself into a bit of a panic about it as I hate getting in trouble, but when we got there to assess the scale of the problem it wasn't as bad as I'd feared.  We got it chopped and cleared in about an hour. Having a big strong man helps of course.

I've kept all the horrible Blackthorn branches to make natural fencing with at a later date(something I actually  know how to do - yay for hedge laying skills!)

So next plan of action is to get the stock fencing built and get the vegetable patch dug out asap with a hired rotavator.