They came back… again!!

My porcine friends paid me yet another visit either last night or early this morning. Luckily the damage they did was not that great and only took me a few minutes to kick back over and stamp down again. Mind you, my neighbour was less lucky this time and the damaged area over on their land was bigger this time than last. Nevertheless it emphasised the need for me to get a barrier up on the bottom of my land at least, as soon as possible, so although I couldn’t work very much into the afternoon, that was my aim for today.

And that’s what I succeeded in doing by mounting the mesh all along the bottom boundary. The job’s not finished – I’ve not even cut the length for the bottom corner off the roll and have just left it leaning against the last post for now – but I hope that it will be enough of a deterrent to keep the beastly boar off my land. Here are some shots from after I’d done all that I could do in the time available today.

I’ve just hung the mesh temporarily for now and will have to make the fixings permanent in the next day or so. It may not be tomorrow because we’re expecting a couple of days with near freezing temperatures, but I hope it will not be too long as I don’t want the ruddy boar to start testing the fence as they could well then end up bending the mesh and finding their way through it due to the lack of fixings. After all, on the face of it they are persistent if nothing else…