After back trouble a few days ago plenty of lotion and massaging got me up and about and taking a couple of walks
The weather has been mainly dry and today we had a little sunshine so I decide the time to start the pruning was here.
As always I try to do with all big jobs. I started on the hardest part which in this case was the runaway Buddleia,It's my fault it went silly because I failed to cut it back last year because of all the rain.
As the beast now stood at over 7ft tall this needed doing.Armed with my very sharp branch saw I cut it back to it's stocking tops and then rested
I then took a batch of the branches,stripped the side shoots off and because of the height of the main branches I sawed them in half tied them in a bundle and put them in the garden wheelie.
I still have 2 or 3 more bundles to do but I was happy with my days work
The only things to prune now are the fruit bushes, a much easier task,the rest are early spring jobs,
Another coffee.a large splurge of Deep Heat and back to the massager with no ill effects up to now apart from a liitle pain, but'm used to that,did I give my back long enough to recover? tomorrow will tell
With yet more bad weather due it may take a few days to finish cutting the branches up but the hard stuff is behind me