Sunday 30th December 2018

It was the last day at Rais before Joanne's return, so Helen and I headed up to burn the piles or brash that have accumulated in the last few weeks, and generally tidy up a bit!

The fire started well, thanks to some dry kindling and some patience, and we soon had a good base going and started to work through the rohdie.

Part of the fallen tree that has been exposed by the rohdie clearance was much more dead than it had appeared and in the last two days it had fallen to the ground so I tided that and it made good extra fuel for the fire.

While the fire was going Helen cleared a bit more rohdie that was straggling across the bank, making quite a difference visually, and I dug up a few stumps. I found yet another burrow that is obviously in
use.

All the brash, and a fair few roots and bigger branches were burned by the time we called it day at around 4