Planting Behind the Houses

Welcome to my World!

This part of the future woods, backs onto a housing estate.  It is waste ground and the local authority (the Dutchy) want to put an allotments on half of it, which they have been talking about for years.

When I suggested to them, that I could plant woods on the other half; they said "Oh, that would look nice!", which is the closest to a 'Yes!' that they've ever given me.

There are a number of ways into this site, but due to the fortunate bad planning of the 1950's; there is no road access.  One of the access points is this rickety make-shift bridge, which can be a bit slippery and difficult to master, especially at night.

Last time I was planting at night, on this site; A man came out with a torch.  He was pertending to walk a dog, but all the time was shinning his torch into various patches of undergrowth.

I was lying, flat on the wet grass, commando style, viewing my options.  Fortunately he eventually went away.

Tonight things all went smoothly and I didn't disturb any of the residents of the houses.  There was a bit of noise-muffling wind, and as you can see from these photos; the visibility was very poor.