My brain is mush - attempting to fill in #RLE1 for #RuralPaymentsScheme because I want to try and get a #grant for #hedgelaying
9 open gov.uk tabs, 3 maps & 4 how-to’s and slowly dawning misery that even a masters degree in English cannot help me parse the chaos that is #Defra and the #RuralPaymentsAgency 😭

Bore da folks. Today I am inspecting #hedges that we will be laying next year, measuring a few trees, including an old #oak, marking out veggie beds and sprinkling #wildflower seeds with gay abandon.
#gardening #smallholding #hedgelaying

Hedge laying adds enrichment for Sidmouth's Donkey Sanctuary

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/hedge-laying-adds-enrichment-sidmouths-8350457

#Hedgelaying #DonkeySanctuary #Sidmouth #EastDevon #Devon #Wildlife #Ecology #Birds #Insects #Lichen #Mosses

@chloebaker Motivation follows action. Just start doing the thing and motivation will follow. He says, staring at an unfinished hedge … #MotivationFollowsAction #HedgeLaying

We did some #hedgelaying training on a small section of an ivy-filled hedge otherwise pegged for removal in #NorthCountyDublin today. Unfortunately interrupted by some rather angry residents who thought we were "do-gooders ruining a perfectly good hedge".

“Hedge-banks and ditches are russet with the browns and yellows of the dead bracken fronds. The distant trees show mistily in the winter air”
#HedgeLaying #ELGrantWatson #CFTunnicliffe

I posted this on what became Musk's toy, back in 2020 on #WorldWildlifeDay. It's an annotated drone photo of my "wildlife area". I'm fortunate to be able to provide some refuge from the thin flailed hedges and nature poor agricultural land which is now all too common. I now need time to lay the hedges I planted and thin out the trees around the ponds, to let more light through. #wildlife #ponds #drone #conservation #hedgelaying

I bought a new Silky folding pruning saw today. (PSA - I do #woodland management & #hedgelaying for fun) It's very, very sharp. In the #safety instructions it says:

"Use extreme care when folding saw. Do not place fingers or other body parts between the saw blade and the handle."

OK, "fingers" warning ✅ But "other body parts ..."

WHICH other body parts ... ? 🤔

Answers on a postcard ...

One thing I really like about living where I do is the opportunity to exercise country #craft skills. Here's some #hedgelaying a team of us did a couple of weeks ago - I went back and did some dead-hedging with the brash yesterday.

@Llordllama This sounds like a pretty perfect autumn day. #HedgeLaying is on my list, once my obsession with clay plaster calms down!

Hi I’m James - here is my (belated) #introduction. I’m a middle aged accountant working in London but from and based in #Sussex. I live with my husband and Parson Russell Terrier, Wiggo, on a smallholding in the #Weald. #gay #regenerativeagriculture #photography #hedgelaying