Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Day: 6 December 2018

  • Deck the hall with boughs of holly ….

    Deck the hall with boughs of holly ….

    On shrub clearance on Bridestones Moor and a large holly tree is amongst the casualties. Oh dear, it’s considered bad luck to fell a holly tree. But I didn’t actually fell it. The cutting of boughs to deck the halls is acceptable as is pollarding for use as winter fodder. Very nutritional apparently. Which leads…