Kling, Glöckchen, Klingelingeling

Philip, Stephen and Hap.

Back to Meal Hill. And another 500 plants went in on a morning of variable weather. Better than expected for a while, then hellish, then not so bad again. Hap brought extremely nice homemade bakewell tart and mince pies.

We were; myself, Sarah A., Cath, Jess, Dianne, Tanya, Hap, Dan, Ben, Stephen, Philip B., Philip H., Geoff, Jim, Tess, and Jon.

After work we retired to the Sair and were joined by John, Neil, and Peter. We ate Handmade bakery pasties and had a very nice time.

Happy holidays everyone!

The most Christmassy of (German) Christmas music

Elephant stone

Future burger licks new hedge.

Back to Meal Hill to do more hedging.

519 plants went in. We were; myself, Philip B., Philip H., Jess, Geoff, Dan, Hap, Dave, Stephen, Jim, Ben, Dianne, and Alastair.

For some of us the morning ended with the struggle to remove a henge worthy stone. Hence...

https://youtu.be/picVsVudTkQ?si=l9jhAD4TDqs0XOp3

Commanding presence.

Dig that crazy Santa Claus

Mulch mats galore.

Back to HD4 for some out of valley planting in collaboration with Kirklees

We were: myself, Philip H., Philip B., Geoff, Alastair, Dan, Stephen, Ben, Jon, Tess, Dave, plus 8 members of the public signed up by Kirklees.

We planted another 350 trees. Job done.

https://youtu.be/5HgHvnHoFXY?si=Q-fVnpatdDVJo4g4

Live wire

Philip briefs the group about the live wires.

This week were in HD4! Outside of our literal comfort zone, but working with Kirklees on this project.

We planted 45 birch, 30 hawthorn, 20 blackthorn, 45 rowan, 60 hazel, 45 oak, and 5 elder. 250 total.

We were; myself, Philip B., Ben, Stephen, Alastair, Matthew, Geoff, Dave, Jon, Tess, Sam, Ptol, Cath, Jess, Philip H., Dan, and Hap.

This is so great!