Coppicing, felling, tushing (pretending to be a horse dragging timber rideside) trying to do a little woodwork.  Today it was coppicing.  Finally finished off the monster stool – it’s about 4 foot across, and severely overgrown.  Nothing else was growing within the spread of its massive (for hazel) canopy.  But after four visits its all down:

I should have taken a picture of the huge pile of wood we got from it.  ’All’ that’s left to do now is to get it down to this level:

A neighbouring, smaller stool we took down in one today, thanks David!