We have a patch of gorse in the field at the back of the house. It surrounds what we believe to be the quarry where the stone for our house and buildings originally came from. It has been gradually encroaching into the field, as gorse does, but now the EU have decided that it is ungrazable land, and therefore must not be included in land area calculations.
And so it has to go. It's not the end of the world though, gorse being gorse it won't be long before it starts to come back, and we have left a band of blackthorn and trees, so after we have reseeded with grass it will look pretty good.
And so digger driver extraordinaire John McCabe, of McCabe Contractors arrived on a cold dry day in January and took it all out, leaving the ground ready for a quick harrow and reseed once the ground temperature warms up.
We had considered doing it by hand but were very glad we didn't!
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