We went to town today and bought camp bedding for the captain as he suddenly realised he had absolutely nothing other than the double sleeping bag we use in the van and a single bivvy which the sleeping bag definitely will not fit into. We also managed to pick up some small cool bags for our packed lunches (fed up of carrying the massive cool box in and out) and a tick remover (nice).I started clearance in the eastern wood and spent most of the afternoon with secateurs clearing the rhodies whilst Ant brought down the precariously balanced dead trees and all the dead wood dangling on other branches in the eastern wood as well as clearing more of the mangled chicken wire fencing that was presumably designed to pen the pheasants. Rhodies growing through most of it and much of it buried... a pig of a job.
