I've nearly broken through to the other side of the other side of the dead trees . I'm now left with tree stumps and many many bramble stumps so it isn't pretty but it's very nearly navigable!!!!!
The ladder has been freed as have the weird plastic cladding sheets and various bit of rotten wood.
I found a huge stone in the undergrowth so no doubt there was some sort of structure there. Dear only knows what else I'll find.
This is roughly before and after. It's just getting worse and worse isn't it?
There's a narrow path under there somewhere or maybe under the acer. I'm fed up looking for it. I will plant willy nilly. There's just soil under it. I know because I laid it myself in true GoS style
I too am hoping to have a similar woodland glade when I've cleared away all the brambles, snowberry, dead trees, bindweed, rushes, stones, rotted sleepers, willows, downed pines.....
I'll plan to do a whole lot of them one after the other. It'll be like a cartoon with a repeating background.
If it ever stops raining I'm going to level what's left of the brambles and very VERY long grass. I'm hoping to be able to get the lawnmower over it eventually without breaking a leg. There seems to be deep bits. Deep bits? What's that about? And high up bits....
My next target is another dead tree over to the left and if I live long enough there will be a gap to the left of the worlds' biggest stand of dogwood. I'll have my hundredth birthday party there. All welcome!
(just watch out for the downed pine in there because the only thing holding it up is some kind of flowering cherry!)
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Huddle around ,chaps. We're safe here.
Just open a gardening book or a plant catalogue so that it looks as if you are gardening.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
I think so lantana
Iamweedy, catalogues are gardening of the mind and a valid alternative to physical gardening
I've nearly broken through to the other side of the other side of the dead trees
. I'm now left with tree stumps and many many bramble stumps so it isn't pretty but it's very nearly navigable!!!!! 
The ladder has been freed as have the weird plastic cladding sheets and various bit of rotten wood.
I found a huge stone in the undergrowth so no doubt there was some sort of structure there. Dear only knows what else I'll find.
This is roughly before and after. It's just getting worse and worse isn't it?
It looks good to me - a rural idyll a haven for wildlife and human alike.
There's a narrow path under there somewhere or maybe under the acer. I'm fed up looking for it. I will plant willy nilly. There's just soil under it. I know because I laid it myself in true GoS style
I like it B3.
I too am hoping to have a similar woodland glade when I've cleared away all the brambles, snowberry, dead trees, bindweed, rushes, stones, rotted sleepers, willows, downed pines.....
I can hardly wait.
Trick photography pp. The patch is about 6ft x15ft
I'm sure it will be lovely and you will be able to take more than a few steps before you're out of it!
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I'll plan to do a whole lot of them one after the other. It'll be like a cartoon with a repeating background.
If it ever stops raining I'm going to level what's left of the brambles and very VERY long grass. I'm hoping to be able to get the lawnmower over it eventually without breaking a leg. There seems to be deep bits.
Deep bits? 
What's that about? And high up bits....
My next target is another dead tree over to the left and if I live long enough there will be a gap to the left of the worlds' biggest stand of dogwood. I'll have my hundredth birthday party there. All welcome!
(just watch out for the downed pine in there because the only thing holding it up is some kind of flowering cherry!)
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Onwards and upwards.....and downwards