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Picardy and Commons border 2015 xmas tree collection

Joined up with James at Sherborne on Wednesday, Mike away on a course, with the mornings mission to retrieve Xmas trees from the Commons. The good news was that the 'trees' were already felled and ready for collection from the Commons area. The bad news was there would be no tractor available to help this year and the location of the felled trees was sketchy. The happy recipients of this years NT Xmas trees were to be the Church at Northleach, the Sherborne house courtyard and Sherborne school.

Always good to drive down to the Commons near the water meadows area and the weather conditions were good, being warm with fairly dry ground conditions. So although it proved tricky to locate the site of the xmas trees it was a pleasant experience to scout around parts of Picardy and Commons in our search. We also had the benefit of positioning the 4x4 as close to the tree site as possible since the usual boggy conditions were absent. However the distance to the felled trees proved lengthy enough especially in the more muddy parts of the 'ride' and carrying a 14' tree {not the 18' tree of last year} was challenging. We did manage to load the trailer with 2 trees and transport both back to the estate offices safely. As a bonus on the return journey we were favoured by a herd of fallow deer which dashed across the ride in front of us and a greater spotted woodpecker near the house up by Northfields barn.