It is Bank Holiday Monday and there is the most enormous pile of bark chipping at the top of the drive.  On Friday we had the Cherry Trees pruned, I watched with some horror as a couple of young men did this job, one on the ground and one swinging in the branches cutting as directed by his colleague.  The company come several times in the year to tidy up the trees and clip some of the hedges that we cannot do ourselves and on this visit they brought the bank chippings which is destine for around the whips that were planted just two years ago around the edges of the kitchen garden and the rest will be put under the newish beach hedge and the path through the woodland garden.  I am writing this now as I am trying to put off a job that I am not looking forward to.  Wish me luck!