I have been venturing into the garden at Ullapool to assist James with reducing the height of the huge gorse bushes in front of the house. We have an efficient routine; James uses hedge cutters to trim the thin parts of the gorse, loppers for the branches, and then a saw for the really thick branches. He then uses secateurs to chop the pile of trimmings into pieces small enough to go into refuse sacks. That’s where I come in. Wearing a pair of sturdy gardening gloves, I stuff the gorse into the sacks and when they are full I take them round to put them beside the car. Once I have filled ten sacks we put them in the car and set off to the dump. The Ullapool dump is tremendous compared to the extremely busy dump near our home; not only is it very quiet, it has beautiful views over Loch Broom! Then back we go to the cottage to reuse the sacks for another car load of gorse clippings. Despite my lack of skill in gardening I felt that I was doing a useful task to help James, and found myself really enjoying it. As the height of the gorse reduces, we can now see the river and the duck pond below the cottage.
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