A hard frost greeted us this morning although the bright sunshine soon began to thaw the ice. Venturing off road onto the tracks the ruts were frozen and rutted. Care had to be taken not to turn an ankle. The fields were still very wet in places with standing water in the lower places. Because we had not run for a week four and a half miles was plenty.
The rest of the day was given over to pruning another of our neighbours trees. It was an ash that had been left to its own devices for too long. Little shape and bits sticking out all over the place it needed some tough love. Several hours of sawing, pruning and clearing out the dead bits in the middle and it now looks a bit like a tree again. It will take a while to recover from the hair cut I gave it but it will, and look all the better for it. My neighbour helped with some of the larger limbs that needed to come down and with the tidying up. The tidying up is the worst part. Anyway the jobs done and everyone is happy. Alls well that ends well.
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