| #278 |
Today's plan was to spend time cossetting tomato seedlings, baking and generally messing about. That all got changed after a phone call mid morning. We had a call to 'arms', or more precisely loppers.
Maybe a fortnight ago the farming contractors finally got round to topping the hedge along our road after 4+ years neglect. The new growth on the tatty English elm hedge must have been 6ft or more. It was cut with a flail cutter and made a huge mess along the verge and pavement where the kiddies walk up to school, 6ft branches and all sorts of smaller rubbish. We naively thought they'd be back to clear up, but no. So a group of us elderlies went and did the job. Three hours later the road looks less like a devastation site and a group of self satisfied wrinklies very proud of their work.
Maybe a fortnight ago the farming contractors finally got round to topping the hedge along our road after 4+ years neglect. The new growth on the tatty English elm hedge must have been 6ft or more. It was cut with a flail cutter and made a huge mess along the verge and pavement where the kiddies walk up to school, 6ft branches and all sorts of smaller rubbish. We naively thought they'd be back to clear up, but no. So a group of us elderlies went and did the job. Three hours later the road looks less like a devastation site and a group of self satisfied wrinklies very proud of their work.
Gardening is an excuse not to do housework
Greetings from Salisbury
Qualified member of the Confused Nutter's Club
![[-]](https://gardenandgossip.org/images/zen/collapse.png)