If you have seen the two pictures on the site under "projects" then you will know just how much clearing we have done to the bank at the front of the cottage.  The chopping and clearing and then lugging all this up to the top of the garden pales into insignificance compared with processing it!  What takes two or three days to chop down taken well over a week to process even though we have to chippers.  We are about 90% finished with the processing and now the under gardener has decided to completely remove the remaining hedge at the bottom of the bank.  Over half of it has disappeared over time and we had at one point considered just re-planting in the gaps but now all has changed. So - tomorrow it is out with the chain saw and on with the work.  Wish us luck.