Tag: Coppice

  • Hedgerows,moonlight and deer on the hoof

    On a perfectly sunny winters day earlier this week, I started my first hedge-laying task of the season. Michael (Fi’s Dad) and I began with work on the hedge that borders his property. Michael had already done a stirling job with son-in-law Andy taking the bulk of the heavy stuff from a line of overgrown…

  • More Belties, and my Autumn Urges!

    New Belties On saturday, as we were heading out up to the Smoke to visit Jake and Zara for dinner, we were held up by the arrival of another fourteen belted galloway cows to their winter layback land in the valley.  All of a sudden the lower fields were alive with a herd of cattle;…