Ladies and Gentlemen – it is official. We have chipped our last branch for 2012.

Actually, that’s not true – but we have chipped the last branch that was cut in 2011 (shows how far behind we are!). All we need to do now is collect them all up, and give them to the pigs..

We can fit about 5 cubic metres of chippings in the truck and trailer, which means that we have maybe 20 trips to do, all around the valley. As I type this, I am smug in the knowledge that we are down to perhaps ten more car and trailer-loads, so might even be finished by the end of this week.

So, next week, I can start the spring pruning of the olive trees – yup – will be cutting more branches off trees, and then putting them through the chipper – can’t wait!