A Spirited Team

Before pruning

Yet another cold day yesterday, this is getting too repetitive for me as I had hoped to abandon the hat with ears by now but cannot dare as the temperatures hover only just above zero. One job guaranteed to warm us up is attacking the ivy that grows up the estate walls and sawing through stems as thick as trunks themselves as they attempt to strangle the big trees. This insidious creeper enlarges the tree canopy making it more likely to catch the wind and bring a mighty specimen down. After lunch we moved on to thinning the willow hedge ready for tying the best branches back into the framework, traditionally this is Nikki's last task before she returns to work in the nursery for the summer, we will miss her wicked sense of humour and infectious laugh for a few months but when she returns later on in the year it will be for good. So the winter team has broken up again which is sad, but we've had loads of fun and gotten much done and this indicates that spring summer beckon.

"Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilisation work"
Vince Lombarix

Making progress, end result to be shown next week