Bracken bashing in Bryan's Wood: 07-09-2015

In spite of the promise of yet more bracken bashing 9 NCVs managed to summon up some enthusiasm for this never ending task in Bryan's Wood. In spite of us having bashed the glade at the end of June, the bracken seemed as high there as ever. So - sticks at the ready - we got going. And kept going - until 2:30pm when we all decided that enough was enough. The photos tell the rest of the story.....

Everyone spent time admiring the ducks on the 

pond on the way in, trying to put off the start of the bash.

  No more prevarication - just get on with it!

Bashing here and bashing there; 
we were bashing everywhere.

Break times were spent at the hut, 
where Queen Anita sat on her fish crate throne.

There were a lot of places where previous 
bashing had taken effect...

...and lots of others where it hadn't! 

Everywhere was festooned with spiders' webs. 

After lunch we moved from the glade to the coppicing area,

 ready to start clearing around the fence....

....and had to wait for laggy last Anita to catch up. 

She had been busy bashing the bits we had missed on our way there.

The boys' team dared to venture inside the coppice 

to have a bash and found it VERY BRAMBLY.

Arise Sir Phil - you are now an MBE 

(Member of the Bashing Empire)

Meanwhile, the other team were bashing a route through 

to some of the bird boxes to make autumn maintenance a little easier.

Spot the bird box. 

(PS This box was about 10' up the tree!!)

Ros E.