Wednesday 23 December 2015

Rocking and rolling in Folly Copse

Good outlook over Cats Abbey buildings and 'water meadows'
Folly Copse thinning close to boundary wall

Sherborne was bathed in sunshine today with a continution of thinning in Folly Copse, with James,  forming the mornings task. It proved to be quite interesting since several of the felled trees needed encouragement to reach the ground. So both tree levers for 'rolling' the trunks, some 'levering' using a convenient bit of cord wood and some nifty chainsawing from James were all used to good effect to build up the much needed cord wood piles. The only downside to the days work was the lack of wildlife on show, so I was only too happy to spend a few minutes spoiling Pepper before returning to Cheltenham and the afternoons walk with Ollie.

The good and bad {Fracking} in Martin Harpers blog , the ugly could apply to a number of things associated with Nature conservation: Lead ammunition , Truss on Bovine TB amongst many {Owen Patterson was bad but...}, Driven grouse shooting.

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