Big space appeared

St Lucien

Jon had a really good clearing session yesterday and got to the end of what is affectionately known as 'the lower path'.

This is an area which has been overgrown since we first saw this property almost 10 years ago now. It is usually covered in brambles and nettles:

but now it's much clearer

All that remains is to have one huge bonfire - we did consider shredding the debris but, frankly, it is just way too much.

We had to get the area cleared so that the digger can drive along there when work begins on the swimming pool in March, I just hope that in the meantime we don't have an early spring and the whole lot grow back again! The eventual plan is to plant fruit trees along this area but it will need a year to rest after I poison the nettles - not something I particularly wanted to do to the land but unfortunately all those years of neglect (and I hate to think how many before we bought the house) have just let the nettle roots take a firm hold and chemicals are the only way to remove them (unless you know differently).

Poor Jon is suffering today with what I can only assume is tennis elbow so he is taking regular elbow rubbings of ibuprofen gel and will have to use the other arm to lift his glass of wine tonight.