Clearing brush

27 April 2020

The next urgent task is to clear away some of the overgrown brushwood around the shed.  It hasn't been done for a few years and it has become impossible to get at the battery box at the back of the shed for maintenance. 

 I didn't get a 'before' photo.  This is after a tough morning's clearing - Dave with the hedge-trimmer and me raking out the cut brambles and branches.  The west face of the shed.

 Dave is finally able to get at the battery box, and top up the water.  Then back to work with the chainsaw to take out larger branches. 

 We can now access the loft storage in the shed.  We need to replace the hatch before we get things nesting in there that we don't want.

 While we had the hedge-trimmer in action, I cut this year's oregano harvest - just in time before the flowers opened.  I will leave this to dry in the solarium, and then strip the leaves from the stalks to use in the kitchen.

 The shorn oregano bush.  Maybe I should try some topiary?

We make a start on the other side, to the north of the shed, in search of a north-west passage.