We have been so busy the last few weeks I did not get time to update the blog!! However I am not complaining as it is a difficult trading time for most businesses at the moment so long may it last. We have been doing mainly small local jobs with problem trees in gardens at Crook, Willington, Ferryhill, Wolsingham, Witton le Wear and Durham. We did have one large commercial job to do with traffic controls as the trees were overhanging a road but generally we have been in and our of people’s gardens trying to tame some overgrown trees. We have also removed some dangerous trees for the Forestry Commision and supplied a load of birch bundles to Carlisle racecourse and some private trainers. The jump race season will be starting in the autumn so a lot of the racecources are repairing or rebuilding their jumps at the moment. A local riding club has asked us to build them some portable jumps which we are happy to do and we usually do a few working hunter courses during the summer as well as Wolsingham Show in September.
We have had a slight rat problem at home when the hedehogs moved out of, and some rats moved into, the log pile beside the wild garden. Our little Jack Russell terrier Susie alerted us to their presence and sadly they have to go because of the damage they can do and the diseases they spread to the other animals. Plus my mother is terrified of them and can be heard screaming from 2 miles away if she sees one!! Touch wood they seem to have gone now but we will have to be vigilant this winter.