Reduced shade!

I was hot at the Rocks By Rail Museum yesterday. It was so hot that Thomas's paint app told him it was too hot for paint to be applied to metal so he decided that a day helping me with some vegetational butchery in the shade was the thing to do. Alex thought so too. Now, despite the heat waves and general lack of rain, bushes and shrubs still appear to have grown at a rapid rate so some heavy pruning was required. Thomas had brought in his mini chain saw which he gave his mother for her birthday but then decided to test at the Museum. To be fair it was a great aid and soon destructed vegetation was piling up to the point that something had to be done.

Cue the builders bag which allowed the vegetational debris to be bulked up and transported to the composting area.

There was another issue with this mass vegetational destruction. That being that the shade that had been there was no longer there as we stripped back the vegetation! Being a bit crafty, I made my excuses and took the strimmer along the quarry tracks where it was still shady and cool and my strimming did nothing to reduce that! Cool! More to do on the cutting back side of the shrubs but that can wait for another day - hopefully when it is cooler!

Whilst talking about vegetation, one of my bike rides took me pass the local canal which over the last few weeks has become a stream. This is how it looked a few weeks ago.

And now....

Maybe I should take the strimmer down there!