31/10/2009. This is our holiday lodge at Burnside Park with Joy's car beside it. The site will be closing in a few weeks time so this will be our last trip, unless we come over during the Christmas/New Year break, so we need to do some "closing down" maintenance tasks. Joy sees to the internal things while I get up on the roof to clear the gutters and trim the overhanging trees. Where we are sited close to the lane running up to Underskiddaw is a bit of a trap for the falling autumn leaves and requires regular attention to stop the leaf mould becoming compost.Next spring I will need to have another round of wood maintenance on the verandah decking which seems to need re-proofing every couple of years thanks to all the Lakeland rain it has to contend with. November is also the time when Lowther Estates (the Burnside Park gardening contractor) trims our trees which grow apace. The Silver Birch trees are particularly vigorous, I notice most of them have red paint splotches at various heights and it will be interesting to see how aggressive this year's cut back will be. I love trees and don't really mind ours too much but they do seem a bit close to the foundations of the lodges and they restrict our views of Latrigg and Blencathra, against that we get red squirrels, woodpeckers and (this morning) nuthatches who would certainly vote to keep them.
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