Thursday 31 January 2013
Loud noises of chainsawing from the NE corner, where the disputed territory line is. January definitely seems to bring out the landowner in everyone. Our neighbour Vassilis has pushed his boundary line back and back until it is now hard up against one of the (disputed) olive trees. He is clearing his land for planting, and this means chainsawing all the undergrowth out of the hedgerows. We don't want to concede too much, mainly to save the hedges, but he's rather trigger-happy on the chainsaw and has slashed and burnt his way up to the line he says is his. He does claim to have been generous in leaving some of the trees on top of the bank, as a special favour. So we still have some border greenery, but he's working his way along the east bank, clearing back to the terracing, which, of course, he has the right to do. We have decided to encourage our hedge to grow forward another metre or two. Dave is very interested in coppicing the prickly oak anyway, so we'll try for a little bit of managed woodland on our borders.
Loud noises of chainsawing from the NE corner, where the disputed territory line is. January definitely seems to bring out the landowner in everyone. Our neighbour Vassilis has pushed his boundary line back and back until it is now hard up against one of the (disputed) olive trees. He is clearing his land for planting, and this means chainsawing all the undergrowth out of the hedgerows. We don't want to concede too much, mainly to save the hedges, but he's rather trigger-happy on the chainsaw and has slashed and burnt his way up to the line he says is his. He does claim to have been generous in leaving some of the trees on top of the bank, as a special favour. So we still have some border greenery, but he's working his way along the east bank, clearing back to the terracing, which, of course, he has the right to do. We have decided to encourage our hedge to grow forward another metre or two. Dave is very interested in coppicing the prickly oak anyway, so we'll try for a little bit of managed woodland on our borders.
The left side is ours, the right side is felled and cleared
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