1st September
After a long pause, Paul returns to log-hauling training.
4th September
More path maintenance in Top Strip. Logs sawn and stacked in log shed ready for 2018.
6th September
Paul hauls some more. More path maintenance.
7th September
Clare and John set the bees from the unviable hive free on the Meadow. The queen travels up to the Top Grazing clinging on to the back bumper of the Land Rover. Having failed to spot her inside the hive, at least Clare could see that she was indeed smaller and thinner than expected and therefore likely to have been a drone-laying queen. Yet more path maintenance and work on the roadway by the top gate.
13th-16th September
Still more path maintenance; strimming in the Top Strip.
Refurbished path in the Top Strip
This miniature forest was growing on the old path chip
Getting ready for next winter
More path refurbishment
16th September
We say goodbye to Snippets who leaves for Tarset pastures. Paul goes to Codlaw for pony boot camp while we go walking.
22nd September
46 Guelder Rose planted as hedging in the Orchard.
25th September
William the pony arrives.
27th September
Would you believe more path maintenance? It's a long path.
28th September
Site prepared for Field Maple Mel has grown and donated. Juniper maintenance on Crag.
Juliet brings William
Guelder rose hedging in the Orchard