2023, News

One day

It was a friends of kaliwood day, with a bit of prep the pre ious day, tools ready, chai made. A slurry gill on the phone explaining she was being taken to hospital, suspected stroke, could I care for john? In his gentle fashion he came along, unclear why and where, and sat all day wrapped up in front of the fire, tended by peter and Chris. Alice came for first time, and while she and Peter continued with clearing up the coppice, I showed Geoff around the wood and land. He’d moved back into his grandfathers farm in Bramfield, and would be our prospective east suffolk green candidate. Diana rocked up fresh from having Covid, with energetic flo, we walked the pits. Michael came and left, after a rambling conversation with john

Two deliveries changed afternoon plans. One of fruit trees and one a container of a kilometre length of hedging. Unpacked so dry, we had to find water and containers. Pippa collected from her home, Justine came up with some good robust ones, and what with what Theo found on the land and east lodge water butts, we sorted it.

Took john home, he increasingly anxious. Gill arrived back gone 9, amazingly chipper full of hospital observations.