New horizons

After a full ‘inventory’ of our ground I would say we got off lightly from Arwen’s lashing. There was destruction from the storm at the end of November but it was not as widespread as in many places. We were lucky. That said, much has changed.

We had one seat crushed under a tree. Isn’t it typical, all the trees around it are fine but the one tree we put a high seat on comes down with the seat underneath. One ground butt has been blown over and, sadly, our new tower is down. Amazingly, it is not damaged. We can simply lift it back up.

As it happens, when we were putting the tower