The closer I get to these elder trees, the more I realise that a major pruning job is probably what’s required. Some of them are quite broken in places and not growing healthily.
Someone has built a kind of fence underneath them, now collapsed:
– and there are the remains of an old gate in [...]
.. is what I was doing yesterday.
They’ve taken over the five elder trees in the field, from a great monstrous tangle of stems at the base of them, they’ve sent up strangling tentacles into the branches and the trees are actually falling down.
I worked quite hard on liberating them, though the brambles fought [...]
Tracey Emin, eat your heart out:
Following on from this post, the above is the latest heap of field junk to have been liberated from our field. Most of it is green plastic-coated wire fencing, which we assume was used to contain the rabbits and chickens that were once farmed here. There will have been [...]
I was out in the field on Sunday, pulling yet more old nettles and brambles out of the frosty ground, but I couldn’t get over the fact that it suddenly felt wrong to be doing so. Everything was very still and quiet and when I tugged, as usual, by the base of the stems, I [...]
