A thorny issue
I took advantage of the Bank Holiday to get to grips with a particularly thorny local issue today - namely the gigantic angry shrub which lurks at the end of the garden backing onto mine, and which encroaches ever further towards our back door. Tackling it is like wading into uncharted jungle, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if somewhere within it lurks Prestwich’s fabled lost tribe. The shrub itself resides at the back end of an incredibly lengthy garden, which begins at a house up a hill in the distance away from our’s. By the looks of it it’s not been touched from the other side of the fence in about 100 years, but every so often I have to prune it from this end to stop it from drowning my house.
And that was how I spent much of the last Bank Holiday for twelve weeks. That and mowing the lawn and strimming things, and saying “ouch” a lot as various sharp bits of horticulture punctured my limbs.
After I’d finished being green fingered I took a wander the scenic route to St Mary’s Park for an ice cream. The new pathways through Drinkwater Park have recently been laid, making the whole experience much nice now. It’s possible to walk from Rainsough through to Prestwich Clough on new paths through some beautiful woodland. It’s all part of the Forestry Commission’s work in the area which is slowly taking shape and will leave Prestwich with a fabulous nature resource.
And at the end of it of course is St Mary’s Park, a Green Flag park which was packed with families and children having fun in the sun this afternoon. A lovely site for the Bank Holiday, only slightly spoiled by one local idiot (me) spilling ice lolly on himself.
Rick
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