Blown away

Glorious Green-Gym weather for the start of this week.  Yesterday was bracing, but magnificent:

View from the Chilterns, across Wallingford, towards where WGG was scheduled to work this week: Wittenham

Then came the weather forecast for today, Green-Gym day: heavy rain.  Who would be the lucky ones?  Those out in the elements, acquiring more experience and instruction in the ancient craft of hedge-laying (a new skill for most of our Green Gym)?  Or those of us who, long before the weather forecast was issued, had opted out of today’s session on the grounds that one experience of hedge-laying had been quite enough to convince us that we were not born hedgecore?

Billhook and sharpening stone

Our instructions soon came through: that although the leadership team know we volunteers are prepared to go out in all weathers, nevertheless the session was cancelled, because the forecast was for it to be “both windy and very wet.” 

They were not kidding about the potential for damage from the wind as it freshens up again.  A yellow-warning for “strong north-westerlies” is in force for later today.  This, seen yesterday at a site elsewhere in the Chilterns, is an example of what sturdy south-westerlies did earlier this week:

So no Green Gym today.