All Change.

The weather has changed and a gale has been blowing all day long. After some initial rain it has been bright and sunny mixed with grey spells while throughout the wind has been bitterly cold. Yesterday I was working in a t-shirt, today I wore my wind-proof gardening coat and a hat to keep the wind out of my ears. During the morning rain I went and cleaned in the outbuilding sweeping up the leaves and swallow poo (I'm going to put newspaper down to make cleaning up this year's offerings easier.) Then I returned to cutting down the hedge and hooray it is now all done. There were a few brief showers but the wind soon blew the rain away. There were times when the wind was so strong I was nearly knocked off my feet. Now that the shelter of the hedge is gone I wonder how well the apple trees will fare. So maybe from a gardening point of view it wasn't the best thing to take out the hedge but it does make the garden look a lot bigger or will do once the trunks are chopped down. And it was almost as much hard work to keep the hedge trimmed as to cut it all down. 

I had planned to burn up all the branches at the end of the day but the wind was so strong I couldn't risk burning branches being blown into the trees or onto my neighbour's property. 

Now for a quiet evening listening to the wind whistling around the house.