Honeysuckle box

The honeysuckle box - for more on which see reference 1 - on the edge of the common, more or less opposite the turn into Horton Lane was looking very good this morning, despite it being damp and overcast. But the telephone struggled with it, with this snap being the best of a not very good lot.

Then on to Horton Lane, where things were not so bright, as someone had been along the eastern hedgerow with a flail, something I regularly moan about. I dare say they are cheap and they do do a job of sorts, but they leave an ugly mess for weeks if not months afterwards. Maybe one day, when the computers have gobbled up all the paying jobs, we will get people to trim our hedges in the old way. Neatly.

While right at the end of Horton Lane, at the junction with Chessington Road, they cut the hedge skirting Hook Road Arena far too close to the wire, not giving the thing room to grow properly. So not only do we need people to trim hedges, we need gangermen who know something about hedges.

PS: gangerman and gangermen were the corporal and corporals of the building sites when I was small. Perhaps also junior gang masters in Lincolnshire. But now google seems to think that I am talking Norwegian - with ganger being a common word in that language meaning times, times in the sense that tre ganger means thrice or three times.

Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=honeysuckle.