I am having a week off this week to take my mother on a Christmas trip to Lille and Bruges. Which is just as well considering the wintry conditions outside.
What does the countryside service do when the weather is bad? There is always a lot of paperwork to catch up on. Any information notices that you come across in the amenity woodlands has been created by the countryside people. But if the snow persists, the lads and their landrovers are dispatched to reach outlying properties, to ferry health workers, and other essential services to where people are stranded. This means that they get behind with their proper work, so the tree thinning we did last week was finishing off a job they abandoned during last winter's bad weather.
I took hubby out at the weekend to show him some of the work I have been involved in. We had a stroll through the extent of this woodland. It was more extensive than I knew, and has open spaces as well as a reed bed and other wetland habitat. The pond was frozen solid, except for a very small area close to the opposite bank. A dog ran out on the ice, but it didn't break. It's a hard time for those water creatures.
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