Too hasty

We had a bitterly cold night last night and the water supply to my caravan is frozen again as I type this. This was the view when I left the caravan this morning just before the sun began to peep over the horizon at about 8.00 am – a winter landscape of frost as far as the eye could see.

However, this was the view that met my eye when I turned to look towards the bottom of my land.

So it seems that I spoke too soon yesterday. The ‘sanglier’ found their way back onto my land after all some time after I finished work yesterday and got up again this morning and the area that they’ve ripped up is possibly the largest yet.

And yet again, it’s mainly only my land that has been affected. You can see in the distance in the next image that my neighbour’s land was slightly damaged again, but nothing like as badly as mine.

And when I say damaged, that’s what I mean. There are huge gouges a metre or so across and 20 or 30 millimetres deep which must have required a considerable amount of effort to create.

I’m not sure where they came from. As always, there are absolutely no signs that they came from the south which would always be too risky for them with no escape route, so I’m sure that as usual, they came up through the gap and up the rise from the east. There are some signs that they then actually walked up and skirted around the fence that I’ve only partially put in place along the long north side of my land but it’s difficult to be sure of that due to the hardness of the frozen ground.

There are also signs that they may have skirted around the short segment of fence in the bottom corner and climbed up through a small gap in the trees that I’ve always know was there and which would be quite an easy route for them now that the bushes have died back, as shown in the pic below.

I was going to leave blocking it with a length of fence mesh until the end of the job but now I think that I’ll have to do it before doing anything else. I have to say that this constant fight has become very tedious to say the least. And it’s also very time-wasting and tiring having to keep filling in and levelling the land after they’ve been and gone and left all their damage behind them.