Our work here in the northern Lake District is normally carried out to prepared plans. So, as you will have already read in previous Blogs, most of our winter time work is taken up with hedgerow maintenance. You can work on hedgerows in most weathers apart from heavy consistent frosts. So the appallingly wet and warm winter that we are enduring (oh for the winter wonderland of the past two years!) has been ideal. Over the weekend the rain finally gave out and the beautiful North Lakes were alive with people enjoying the cold crisp sunny days.
Come Monday and the weather was holding, so it was a case of taking advantage, temporarily dropping the planned work, and getting some outstanding resurfacing work at Braithwaite finally completed. In conservation work it always pays to take a flexible approach. Oh and checking the weather forecast also helps. Incidentally in my experience, the much maligned weather forecasters get it right far more often than wrong!
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