The overgrown gateway
The day we proudly and ceremoniously cut the lock from the gate was a defining moment for me. The larger machinery had yet to arrive, so Dafydd went to work with a brushwood strimmer to clear some space inside the gate so that it could be fully opened. Meanwhile, Holger and I were employed cutting back the gorse which had completely grown over one end of the gate.
Access gained at last...
Later, Dafydd also cleared a meeting space further up the field. This was the first of manyhot sunny days. Until the autumn rains arrived in October, I began to think that the weather was never anything but warm and sunny… it certainly always smiled on us when we arrived to do some work!