Raising the fence

 14 March 2021

Following Inky’s demonstrated expertise at escapology, we spent the next day raising the fence around the long run.

We had a roll of 1.5m chicken wire, and managed to find 3 extra long pieces of rebar.  We lashed the rebar to the existing stakes, and then rolled out the wire, ‘sewing’ it onto the top of the current fence.  This was complicated by the trees and broom that had grown up along the length, but we were finally done.

The chickens were let back in while I did all the last bits of tying up.

And Dave constructed an extension to the gate, as well.  We have only done along one side (which was all the wire we had), but we’re hoping that Inky won’t be too clever about working out if she can escape elsewhere.

This is the little lavender bed planted last summer after we installed the arch.  It is flourishing well.

We were very pleased to see one of the little bee orchids that used to pepper the land.  Our soil improvements have changed the habitat so there are not so many any more.