Last Tuesday we went to the Hermitage of Braid and spent the morning attacking cherry laurel. The idea was to allow people walking on the path next to the house to be able to see the house, and we cut down a lot of laurel. It all got piled up in a big heap to dry out, then we can have a nice big warm bonfire over the winter.
After lunch we started replacing the fence along the side of the path so that people walking along admiring the house wouldn’t fall down the hill and into the burn. It turned out to be a bigger job than we thought because the supports holding the path up were rotten and we had to replace them too.
We got a short section of fence completed, but went back on Thursday to complete it.
On Wednesday the group went to Meadows Yard out by the sea. They finished off a new pond that was being made there by covering the liner at the edges, and cut back vegetation around the site.
As well as finishing the fence on Thursday we had another tackle at the Himalayan balsam along the Braidburn. It seems never ending but we won’t let it beat us.