Tired in a good way

[sollers]

I have just spent the day learning how to lay a hedge. I now know where to make the first saw cut, and how deep; how to hack the trunk back down the the cut with a billhook; how to clean up the cut so rainwater will run off; how to go round corners; and how not to be too upset when the trunk is too wide (about 1 ft diameter) and the strip of sapwood and bark breaks so the whole tree has to be cut up and removed. Shoulders and arms feel well exercised, but not aching.

It was a beautiful day, and I think my face has caught the sun. 

I've kept the Morris icon for this because a large number of the staff and volunteers were members of our dancing side. It's a bit weird, a Metropolitan Borough having a Countryside Service, but rather nice that it's needed.

Comments

[jonquil]

That is an awesome way to have spent a day. Who rough-hewed and who shaped the ends?

[green_knight]

Very cool. Hedgelaying and drystone walling are on my list of things I would love to try.