It has been hot today. It was grey and humid in the morning but luckily the rain that had been mentioned on the morning forecast never arrived. It got brighter and consequentially even hotter in the afternoon.
I thought I might as well give the hedge at the bottom of the garden a quick tidy up while I'm in hedge cutting mode. I thought it only needed a trim over but once I'd started I realised it needed a serious reduction in height. The higher it is the harder it is to cut and the more it catches the wind though of course it is also sheltering the garden. Peter took 14 bags to the dump for me as I had nearly run out of sacks and the garage was filling up. Just a small load to go tomorrow.
Above - When I had just begun on the left hand side and below- a much tidier hedge reduced to the height of the street sign on the other side. The street sign that had magically shrunk one morning!
Getting it to that state meant a lot of leaning on the top of the hedge and hand cutting. To stop my arms from getting scratched to pieces I had to wear an old fleece, far too warm for the day but necessary.
One advantage with working on the hedge is getting to chat to passers-by. My neighbours were also out cutting their shrubs and other people were mowing their bit of the cliff top.
My neighbour offered me some very large cardboard boxes that some furniture had come in which the rowing club had asked for for the carnival. After showing me the boxes she showed round their home. They've done a lot of work to it since they bought it a few years ago. Last weekend they had new carpets throughout so it all looks very nice.
Cutting the hedge took me to my limit in terms of my back so I had an hour sitting outside to rest my back. So far it seems fine for disco aerobics tonight.
Yesterday evening at choir there was a mini clothes swap/ sale in aid of WaterAid and I came home with two pairs of trousers, a lightweight jumper and a woolly hat.
A sparrow hawk came to check out the newly mown clifftop and caught something just after I took this photo.
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