Gorse Knife

Old fashioned but effective.  Runs on porridge. No high tech circuitry. One power setting. Can be serviced with a file (no fancy tool kit required). And takes up virtually no space in the shed.

Bracken:

No bracken:

Pile of bracken (and blackberry and gorse):

I'm covered in rusty brown dust (which I guess is bracken spores) made into brown glue by sunscreen and sweat. That dust doesn't half make me cough.

The supervisor declines to keep the coffee cup topped up but has been pointing out where the sticks are still a bit long.

We'll go out on the water later. It's a calm hot day that started as a calm overcast day, Mr B has gone fishing, and kayaking is just calling out to us again (like the loud ratcheting of the cicadas).

oh and by the way - here is how El Greco is doing on its first year in the garden