Ros E.
The NCVs followed the wet track up to the wood....
...and were then faced with raging torrent number one.
Bags were left in the relatively dry conditions of the shed.
The flash photography makes this shelter look
100 times more inviting than it actually is!!
Dave found an empty lager bottle - had Anita
started before the sun is over the yard arm?
Into the coppice and yet another brash pile was started.
Hannah and Dave just kept adding to last week's.
It started to assume gargantuan proportions.
Gradually the hazel and birch were cut down....
... and hazel poles were trimmed and stacked.
At lunchtime there was chair envy as Joanne took
out her fancy little folding seat.
The rest of us had to slum it on logs....
...although Hannah did try to maintain standards
with her pink ming dynasty cup.
After lunch the new pile grew and grew.
James tried the trampolining technique to
ensure the brash pile stayed nice and tight.
Will's technique was simply to throw the vegetation from
a distance, so he had to be given a lesson on what to do....
"First find a stick. Then go to the pile. Next make sure
the stick is the right way around. No - the other way round.
That's right. Now poke it in. Well done!"
The last men (and women) standing at the end of
the afternoon, proud in front of their pile.
The coppicing is not far off done - just one more day should do it.
However - there was still that raging torrent to be faced....
Ros E. and Josh had gone back before lunch and tied a rope across.
This made life a bit easier on the way back to the car park,
although by then the water level had fallen a bit.
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