Tidy Ditches

Three or four times a year special tractors arrive with a long ‘arm’ to cut the grass and weeds in the ditches.

It is with great skill that the tractor drivers not only drive the tractors but also operate the cutting arm which cuts the grass on the winding and uneven banks of the ditches.

When the great yellow tractors leave for the next commune, we are left with the lovely sweet smell of freshly cut grass wherever we drive, and children can fall quite happily from their bikes into the two foot ditches in full knowledge that the stinging nettles have gone away…. for a few weeks anyway !!