Due to our work commitments we can be move around a lot, so it was a great feeling in August to reach our one year milestone of living in the same house and even better when we bought our patch of mud. It felt like we had started to put down roots.
Because of the past years events it was a bonus when we found a busy and social livery yard for my horse Easter only a couple of miles from home. We made an instant group of friends, useful contacts and had an active social life, something you can be in danger of giving up on when you keep moving and leaving friends. We thought we found a good bunch of like minded people but it was a real tragedy when it all fell apart at the end of the summer due to some silly decisions made by a few of our friends, people we trusted.
September was a tough time and going up to the land most nights and weekends gave us some space to get away from it all. Clearing paths, chopping and burning gorse took our minds off the feeling of being cheated. Needless to say we got alot done out of shear bloody mindedness that autumn. "Never let the f**kers get you down!".
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| Woody (mostly) and I hand cleared this path through 5ft high gorse |
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| Another bundle of brambles for the pile |
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| Woody making short work of the top triangle brambles. |
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| The first of many bonfires |
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| 40 winks? |
Remember the cow shed?
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| July 2014 |
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| September |
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| July 2014, there's a shed and yard in there somewhere... |
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| There is it! |
As you can see we had been busy but we were only just scratching the surface. We were loosing the light in the evenings and the ground was becoming difficult to cross in a normal vehicle. We needed to get some hard standing in to allow us to drive in and work on through the winter and so far we had been doing everything by hand (except for the brief stint with the brush cutter that was useless!) we needed help!
