Grand Tour

Three of the Sisters of the Church came to visit today. They do amazing things at their house at Bristol with the Five Loaves and Two Fishes project and other work. I subjected them to the Tour. Join us on our way...

• to the wood chip store and boiler shed; 
• across the mud to the biodigester, House at Poo Corner, and the swales; 
• along the footpath around the western edge to the south side; 
• past the small patch left without mowing to grow wild; 
• along the southern fence, where a series of specimen trees have been planted, and a hedge is soon to join them up; 
• past the gaps where our gates used to be (grrr); 
• along the eastern edge of the Cut to the pond and Garden Pavilion

... pause for scraping mud off boots ...

• through the kitchen garden and maintenance yard; 
• up the bank to a view over the garth and the front door of the Abbey to the north, and the tree-planting to the south; 
• down the hill to Electricity Corner and the stream; 
• along the stream through the clearings-to-be (when the trees have grown), pausing at the tumble-down bridge and the buzzard's nest tree; 
• cutting across before we reach the solitary oak, and up and down and up and down the ridge and furrow; 
• and back up the drive to the bootscraper and the South Link.

And if you would like to know where all of these places are, I have created a handy map.

A new Alongsider, Luke, arrived today, as did the fruit trees. John 15:1-8 springs to mind - may they both bear much fruit.